Redone shack

Jan 052022
 

 

 

 

 


       HF operating position                                                                                           HF operating position

 

I recently bought two Flex 6600 SDR radio’s. One for VHF and one for HF. This forced me to finally reorganize my shack.
I installed it on such a way that all the radios are easy available.  In previous setting the VHF station was too much apart from the rest.
There are again 3 operating positions. 1 VHF operating position and 2 HF operating positions.

VHF station

VHF operating position

 

 

Icom IC-7300

Feb 172020
 

This summer sporadic E season I want to be qrv on 70 Mhz. Therefore I bought an Icom IC-7300.
I have no antenna yet for the 70 MHz band and have to make a decision if I want a dual bander or a monobander.
The 6 element six meter antenna will move to tower 4 in the field and will become part of the stack of the 2 SteppIR antennas.

New Microham Stack match in tower 6

Jan 182020
 

I removed my old home brew Stack Switch from tower 6 and mounted it at the bottom of tower 4 to switch all my 40m antennas.
In tower 6 I mounted a new Stack Switch from MicroHAM.

 

 

160m 4 square project

Dec 112019
 

When I planned the 4 rotary HF towers in a square I had the idea that I would like to try to build a four squaere for 160m with the towers as radiator.
The towers are to short but with the capacitive head from the Yagi’s on top it should work fine.
I first tested an empty tower. Then I connected a coil at the bottom end tuned the tower to 1825 MHz very fast and easy. I also tuned the towers with an antenna at the top in the same way. Finaly I have tuned all the four towers. Now I know that I can realise this project.

To be continued.

 

 

Removed SteppIR dipole and 5 element 20 meter Opdes yagi

Sep 292019
 

We removed the SteppIR dipole for 40 meter from tower 6. This one will go to the 40 Meter tower. We also removed the 5 element Opdes yagi for maintenance.

Connecting the StepIR dipole to the crane.es yagi from tower 7 for maintenance.

Me in the tower connecting the Opdes yagi to the Crane.