The Station at Home.
The station is localized at 20˚ 01' N and 75 ˚ 49' W at 25 meter above sea level on FL20CA locator.
Transceivers are: TS-520S
from Kenwood, for 160,
80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meter bands,
on CW and SSB
modes, 100 watt output, using a dynamic desk microphone
from Kenwood model
MC-50 and a K-4
hand CW key made in China.
An DR-150E
VHF/UHF FM Transceiver from Alinco, for 2 meter band, power
output is 50 watt, and
it can receive on 70 cm band.
A FTL-2001 VHF FM Transceiver from Yaesu , for 144-146 mhz (80 channels) with about 40 watt output.
Antennas: For HF bands
are, a 1/4
wavelength ground-plane with 5 radials for 28 mhz, and 1/2 wave dipoles
in inverted V form for 21 mhz and 14 mhz.
for 144 mhz and 430 mhz bands am using a 1/2
wavelength dual band (VHF/UHF) dipole, and a standard 1/2
over 1/4 collinear array
without radials (for VHF expeditions) and a 3 element cubical
quad only for 430 mhz.
I have not a contest station, but some
time I was on air from CO8HF station, using a full size G5RV
(160 to
10 meter), also from CO9NKA (club station),
and at this time am in some contest from Carlos CM8CAD station,
using a L inverted with 3 radials for
1.8 mhz, L inverted with 2 radials for 3.5 mhz, and dipoles for other bands.
HF antennas are using different 50 ohms coaxial cable, for VHF and UHF bands are low loss coax .
Antenna's projects: 435/145 mhz dual band collinear.
The Ground system at home
is a pipe (7 foot lengthy and 3/4 inch of diameter) into the earth,
applying
common salt and water to the soil
around the pipe to reducing the soil electrical resistance.