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Welcome to My Temporary Shack.

 

I am currently running a Yaesu FT-100D, I have a Yaesu FT-1500 that I was using for my base, but since I upgraded to my General Ticket, I like being able to use 1 rig for HF, VHF and UHF for now, keeps it simple for now.

 

My 100D is fed thru a Diamond SX-200 SWR/Watt Meter, into an Alpha-Delta Delta-2 coax switch. This runs to My antenna on port 1 and my MFJ-264 Dry Dummy Load (always good to have an off air test even with a solid state rig) on port 2. I am using a Vectronics LP-30 Low Pass Filter for my HF (figure I might as well do what I can to make sure I am not sending anything I don't want to out the feed line for HF). We built a nice little pass thru for all my coax lines. and will add the grounding pass thru later.

 

I have a Yaesu YA-30 Broadband Folded Di-Pole for HF it covers 10 thru 160 meters without a tuner, as per spec, and will run 6 meters as well pretty decent. It is only about 10 foot of the ground currently, but hey I have worked 9 states since HamCom with it. I will get more pics of that beast soon (Sorry the pics are so big, only way to really see a wire antenna with a Digital Camera)

mount system

This is the mounting system we used, 2 inch galvanized pipe, stell wire rope, and heavy turnbuckles.

A look down

This is looking from the back of the lot forward down the antenna

The center

This is before we added the stablizer PVC pipe.

Can You See My Little Antenna???

Black Wire hides well when looking against trees don't it.

 

For VHF/UHF I have a Ruby270 made by Force 12. It is about 3 foot tall, but it works amazingly well for me. Saw it at HamCom and tried it out with my HTX-420 actually hit the Dallas ARC machine 146.88 and the Arlington ARC Machine 147.14 pretty easily with 4.5 watts inside the convention center with that little guy sitting on a table. Ordered it that day, and they actually got it to me the next Thursday, BEFORE Field Day without extra shipping costs ( I asked them if they could at Ham Com, that is good  customer service in my book). I mounted the 270 above my local TV antenna, on a 10 foot 1.75 inch mast.

the mount

A good shot of the mount

Hides well with others

Both my antennas seem to hide fairly well, even if one if silver.

 

I am feeding all of my antennas with Times Microwave LMR coax. using LMR-240 for my jumpers between equipment (to save some spacing), LMR-400UF to my window pass thru, and LMR-400 and LMR-400DB for my outside runs to the VHF/UHF and HF antennas respectively. Silver Teflon PL-259 connectors and adapters where applicable.

 

I will add more info and pics as time goes by.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

 

73

 

John

N5BSD