The station setup

    As the space in the property is quite limited I cannot think of large antennas and long wires,thus no aerial for the top band (160).Also not an aerial for 6 m,as we are not allowed to work there.

  •    I made inverted vee dipoles for 80 and 40 m (both are noisy in this area),a delta-loop for 30 (offers pretty good gain to front/back).All wires are very low,being installed on my sole 14 meter tower.
  •   The Cushcraft R7 vertical covers 7 bands and works acceptably fine though it has many coils and no real radials.   
  •   KLM kt-34a is @ 14m, pretty loseless with its linear-loadings and provides quite wide bandwidth with the two driven elements.I can work CW (28010) and FM (29600) with no tuner, keeping swr not higher then 2:1.
  •   On 144MHz I use 1x10ele 3wl yagi built by the directions of DJ9BV.

    Now I have only one radio. I know there are rigs with more extras, yet I'm satisfied with it. It serves all my purpose.

  •   The IC-746 works on HF and VHF. Due to its good inside chassis I can run it full duty of output power even on digi-modes without fatally overheating the finals.
   A very old home brewed linear amplifier works on HF,with one tetrode of QB3.5/750 (Phillips) I cannot use it too often because of TVI, although it gives out some 400 watts only on periodical duty.
   The linear for 144 MHz was made by HA8UG, runs with one GS-31 tube.This one really has a good performance both inside and outside.

   The home made power supply for the radio(12V,22A).    Well,it's not a good-looking one.
   Brewed the keyer from an old relay mechanism and an ancient rusty iron ashtray belonged to my grandpa. I do not smoke anyway.

   An old IBM 200MHz notebook drives the log,runs the digital softwares and links the cluster.Doing all jobs it gets slow though.

    I changed the faster desktop pc,because that got interferred with the radio vica-versa. Tried tons of ferrites and trap-coils on cords to stop effects,but reached not significant improvement.Then I was gone off with that and an all-in-one notebook solved all the problems.