Station Setup

Tower:

  • 35' Rohn 25, roughly, with house bracketing. Planned increase to 45' or more in coming year.
  • Planned: 40' Rohn 25, with hazer, supported by thoughts and prayers

Antennas:

  • Homebrew 2m "copper cactus" j-pole antenna @ 45-ish feet
  • 2m 10-element yagi, horizontally polarized, @ 40-ish feet
  • 10-15-20 dipole (driven element of a Cushcraft A3S) @ 35-ish feet
    (The whole beam was too heavy to haul up there.)
  • 500' loop @ 20-ish feet, when it was up. Presently @ zero feet.
  • 135' EFHW @ 25-ish feet sloping to 15-ish feet, aimed NE
  • Planned: Multi-band vertical, ground mounted

Keys:

  • Bencher BY1 iambic paddles, circa ?
  • Vibroplex Bug, circa 1930s
  • Vibroplex Code Warrior Jr, circa 2005
  • Vibroplex Single Lever Deluxe, circa 1970s?
  • Vizkey Right-angle bug, circa ?
  • Western Electric straight key, circa ?
  • Homebrew saw blade sideswiper, circa 2014-ish. 

Active Equipment:

  • IC706MkII
  • Elecraft K2
  • IC-2100
  • LDG Auto-Tuner
  • Uniden BCD996P2 (Not ham per se, but still a radio.)
  • HamV rotor (professionally rebuilt 2018-ish.)
  • HamV rotor controller (not-professionally rebuilt, 2018-ish.)
  • Assorted Baeofengs. (They're cheap and easily misplaced.)

Inactive Equipment:

  • Drake TR-3
  • Kenwood TS-830s
  • Midland 13-510a
  • Big Hallicrafters receiver 
  • Smaller Hallicrafters receiver
  • A large box of test equipment in my basement
  • My left knee