K8GU/9 shack
80 meters and the Moon
This is my humble station in Urbana, IL. Inside, I have:
- Kenwood TS-930S/AT with PIEXX digital upgrade (5-million S/N)
- Inrad #103 and #104 400-Hz CW filters cascaded
- Inrad #94 and #96 2.1-kHz SSB filters cascaded
- Inrad roofing filter
- Kenwood TS-930S/AT with PIEXX digital upgrade (2-million S/N)
- Kenwood YG-455C-1 and YK-88C-1 500-Hz CW filters cascaded
- Softrock v6.2 40-/80- and 160-meter SDR front ends
- Yaesu FT-840 with Inrad 500-Hz CW filter (not shown)
- Astron SS-30 and RS-7A (not shown)
- W9RE-style 6×2 switch (not shown)
- KK1L band decoder and relay driver box (not shown)
- Heil HM-10 headphone mixer for SO2R
- Homebrew W3NQN 200-watt transmitting bandpass filters for 160-20 meters
- IBM Pentium 166 MHz 80 Mb RAM w/ Windows 95B
- TR-Log
- Dual Pentium III 500 MHz 512 Mb RAM w/ Windows XP and Xubuntu
- N1MM
- VE3NEA Rocky
Outside:
- 10/15-meter fan dipole at 25 ft
- 20-meter dipole at 35 ft
- 40-meter dipole at 40 ft
- 80-meter dipole at 40 ft (open-wire feed can be fed against radials on 160 via shack-operated relay)
The 10-40 dipoles favor the E/W direction, although on 40 most of it goes straight up. The 80-meter dipole would favor N/S if it mattered. If I install any new antennas this Fall or Winter, they will be receiving antennas for 40-160. We hope to leave Urbana in the Summer of 2009. Destination TBD.
Stored hardware:
- Two KLM KT-34XA 32-foot boom tribanders
- Hy-Gain 402BA-S 2-element 40-meter yagi
- Mosley TA-33jr tribander (no boom)
- Lots of wire and coax
- 100+ ft of 7/8″ hardline
- Hy-Gain T2X Tailtwister
- 50 ft of Rohn 25G and accessories
