| STATION LOCATION: | |
| City | Lake Dallas, Texas |
| County | Denton County |
| Latitude | 33 deg, 7 min, 9 sec, North |
| Longitude | 97 deg, 1 min, 17 sec, West |
| Grid square | EM13LC |
| STATION LOCATION: | |
| City | Lake Dallas, Texas |
| County | Denton County |
| Latitude | 33 deg, 7 min, 9 sec, North |
| Longitude | 97 deg, 1 min, 17 sec, West |
| Grid square | EM13LC |
| HF RADIO EQUIPMENT: |
| Icom 756 Pro III HF+6m transceiver with SP-20 speaker and Heil ProSet Plus headset. |
| Ameritron AL-80B 1 KW linear amplifier. |
| Icom IC-703 HF QRP transceiver with InRad 400 Hz c.w. filter. |
| Ten-Tec 561 Corsair II HF transceiver with optional 1.8 KHz, 500 Hz, and 250 Hz filters. |
| Ten-Tec 546 Omni-C HF transceiver with optional 1.8 KHz and 500 Hz filters and all WARC band crystals. |
| Drake R-4C receiver with three optional filters, 4-NB noise blanker, many extra crystals, and MS-4 speaker. |
| Eico 723 CW transmitter, 60 Watts, crystal-control (like my first Novice rig) |
| WW2 U.S. Army Signal Corps BC-348-J HF receiver, made by Wells-Gardner, WITH ORIGINAL DYNAMOTOR! |
| WW2 U.S. Army Signal Corps BC-348-Q HF receiver, made by Wells-Gardner, WITH ORIGINAL DYNAMOTOR! |
| WW2 U.S. Army Signal Corps BC-348-R HF receiver, made by Belmont. |
| NN1G Mark I 20m QRP c.w. transceiver. |
| 40m direct-conversion c.w. & s.s.b. receiver - copy of a Ten-Tec "TKit" receiver |
| 40m c.w. transmitter, single 6AQ5 - Schematic and parts list now available! |
| 40m c.w. transmitter, 6C4 oscillator, 5763 amplifier - from 1971 ARRL Handbook. |
| 40m c.w. transmitter, 6AG7 oscillator, 6L6 amplifier - Schematic and parts list now available! |
| 80/40m c.w. transmitter, 6AG7 oscillator, 807 amplifier - Schematic and parts list now available! |
| VHF RADIO EQUIPMENT: |
| Kenwood TM-261A 45 Watt 2m FM transceiver with MC-80 desk microphone. |
| Yaesu FT-60R dual-band handheld and accessories. |
| Alinco DJ-F1T 2m FM handheld and accessories. |
| SHORTWAVE RECEIVERS: |
| Realistic PRO-95 handheld 100 channel trunking scanner. |
| Hallicrafters S-107 Mark II, same model as my first SW receiver. |
| Raytheon CM-12, 1961 model, covers 0.55 to 13.5 MHz a-m & c.w. in three bands. Yes, I have the owner's manual! |
| Zenith Trans-Oceanic B-600, mid 1950s, bought new by my grandfather |
| Sony SW-100S shirt-pocket digital portable, really tiny (the size of a deck of playing cards!), perfect for traveling. |
| Tandberg Solvsuper 8-31, AM/FM/SW table radio, manufactured in Norway from 1962 through 1964, European model with all markings in Norwegian, beautiful red teak cabinet, still has all of its original Tandberg-brand tubes! By the way, the name means "Silver Super". |
| ANTENNAS: |
| Butternut HF-6V vertical antenna, ground mounted in the back yard. |
| Cushcraft AR-2X Ringo Ranger antenna for 2 meters at 28 feet. |
| SuperAntennas MP-1 antenna for portable QRP use on 80m through 10m. In addition to the original 4 foot top section, I also have a homebuilt 6 footer and an MFJ 10 footer, both of which will easily fit in a small suitcase for traveling. |
| STATION ACCESSORIES: |
| Astron RS-35M power supply (a real workhorse that I've owned since 1983!) |
| Astron LS-18A power supply, 28 VDC @ 18 A, used to power WW2 military radios (I added the banana jacks on the front) |
| Kenwood SW-2000 VSWR/wattmeter with SW-1, SW-2, and SW-3 remote sensors. |
| Idiom Press CMOS Super Keyer II memory keyer. |
| Heathkit SA-2060A 2KW roller-inductor transmatch. |
| Drake DL-1000 air-cooled dummy load. |
| Nye-Viking 2 KW low-pass filter. |
| MFJ dual-time-zone LCD desk clock. |
| Homebuilt T/R switchbox, with antenna switching and receiver muting contacts, and W1FB-designed adjustable semi-breakin delay circuit. |
| Heathkit HP-23A power supply with WB8VGE board. |
| Homebuilt clone of Heathkit HP-23A power supply. |
| A whole bunch of crystals for 80m and 40m CW frequencies, along with some crystal socket adaptors. |
| TELEGRAPH KEYS, BUGS, PADDLES: |
| Nye Viking "Speed-X", standard black oval base, nickel-plated hardware, with shorting lever, Christmas gift from my parents in 1977. |
| Nye Viking "Master", really NICE key, Christmas gift from my wife in 1988. |
| 24K GOLD PLATED Nye Viking "Speed-X", standard oval base key on a solid oak base, made as a promo item for a telecom company (I bought it brand-new on eBay in early 2005). |
| US Army Signal Corps J-37, made by Winslow. |
| US Army Signal Corps J-38, made by Lionel. |
| Miniature brass key from a portable Western Electric telephone test set |
| Bencher BY-1 iambic paddles, black base, Christmas gift from my parents in 1978. |
| Palm Radio Mini-Paddles |
| Homebrew miniature iambic paddles, built by me in 1995. |
| TEST EQUIPMENT: |
| Agilent 3478A benchtop digital multimeter. |
| RCA WV-98C "Senior VoltOhmyst" vacuum tube voltmeter. |
| Fluke 77 handheld digital multimeter. |
| Fluke 8021 handheld digital multimeter. |
| Optoelectronics Opto-8000 600 MHz digital frequency counter. |
| Leader Instruments LSG-17 solid-state 150 MHz RF signal generator. |
| RCA WA-44C audio signal generator (tube-type). |
| Vectronics 584B antenna analyzer (same as MFJ 259B). |
| B&K Precision 830 digital capacitance meter. |
| AADE L/C Meter IIB digital capacitance/inductance meter. |
| Sencore Continental MU-150 dynamic tube tester. |
