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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)
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.
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 |