9L1BTB's radio shack

The Republic of SIERRA LEONE.
QTH Freetown - Juba Hill
Latitude: 08.26N
Longitude: 013.16W
Grid square: IJ38ik
The high above sea level (ASL): 27 mtr's

The shack

My equipment

	Transceiver	Amplifier	Antenna 1	Antenna 2	Antenna 3	Antenna 4	Antenna 5
At present	Icom 706 MKIIG Icom 7000 Icom 7600	EMTRON DX-1b 1xGU-74b	TA-53M 5 bands Yagi	3.5&7MHz dipole home made	80/160m inv V D-162 by Spi-Ro Mfg	10 MHz dipole home made	6m 5el Yagi by sp7gxp
In the past	Barrett 950	EMTRON DX-1b	160m dipole home made	80/40m dipole home made	Barrett BC91200 multi-wire broadband dipole	10 MHz dipole home made	6m 5el Yagi by sp7gxp

Power source

Basic

Power werx SS-30DV

Alternate

car battery + automatic charger Schauer "Four Seasons" TB20012-240

Digital mode

microKEYER II by microHAM

MMTTY well known

MMSSTV no need introduction

W1sql PSK 31

Comp. ASUS Windows 7

My first radio contact under 9L1BTB call sign I made with W4ZV on 28.273 MHz using Barret 950 trnsceiver and Barrett-dipole antenna on 28 October 2001.
Here you can see my QSL cards.

A few words about Barrett transceiver: the Barrett 950 is 450 channel HF transceiver with a frequency range 1.6 to 30 MHz. Operating from 12 Volt (13.8 VDC) DC supplies, the transmitter rated at 125watt PEP. As you can see there is no tuning knob, but I can tune the receiver with the steep as low as 1Hz (1Hz, 10Hz, 100Hz, 1kHz...). That time I was hardly changing frequency.... I was DX station.
I run the Barrett broadband multi-wire antenna in inverted V configuration - see sketch and photo.
Barrett multiwire antenna was repalced by the TA53M Mosley five bands Yagi on 21 July 2002.


Barrett - broadband multi-wire aerial.

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TA 53 Mosley – “fivebander”.

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A "Dream antenna" - magnetic loop for low bands....the only problem is how to keep this monster in the air. Would you like to know more click here

An internal view of the Emtron Dx-1b, an amplifier with GU-74b inside (photo from the Emtron webpage). My experience with DX1b is here.

My first straight key (previously used on Antonov-26 aircraft) and its replacement Made in Poland (SP6...) - quite comfortable, it was with me for more than five years. The last one, Bencher BY-2.

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