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