KF9YR HamShack
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Hamshack / Office April 2003
SteppIR Antenna / Tower
Office / Hamshack is in room above vehicle, tower is cranked down.
David Clark / Heil Headset
I wanted to reduce the background noise I heard while operating so I modified my David Clark headset I had bought for attending NASCAR races. I removed the cord and boom mike from my Heil Pro-Micro headset. I disassembled the David Clark headset, drilled three small holes, one for the mounting/pivot screw, one for the tab that limits the pivot (I could have cut out an arc but I didn't want the boom to pivot), and one for the mic wire. Next I removed the David Clark Headset cable and replaced it with the one from the Heil. I connected all the wires and I now can listen to the rig with the volume turned way down since I don't have to mask any fan noise from the computers or ham gear.
Ham Equipment
Rig
Ten Tec Orion
Icom 706
Amp
Ten Tec Titan 425
Accessories
Alinco DM-330MV Power Supply, AEA DSP232 TNC, Heil / David Clark Headset, Heil handmike, Stuthers TS-3686 Wattmeter (Navy Bird equivalent), Writelog, Logger 32, N1MM.
Antennas
3 element SteppIR on 50 ft Hygain Crank Up Tower
80 / 40 Dipole at 40 feet for domestic contests
Cushcraft Ringo for 2 meters
Computers
Athlon 1800+ WinXPPro(main shack computer)
Athlon 900 Win2000Pro
Athlon 700 RedHat 7.1 Linux (Samba 2.2.2 Primary Domain Controller, network file server)
768k DSL / Wireless Access Point