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STATION LOCATION:
CityLake Dallas, Texas
CountyDenton County
Latitude33 deg, 7 min, 9 sec, North
Longitude97 deg, 1 min, 17 sec, West
Grid squareEM13LC

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.


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