Inside the IW5DHN station
Here you can download a short and low resolution video of the station as seen from inside the little wooden house (900 Kb), or at better resolution (2.61 Mb).
The station is placed in the Tuscany country, at about 100 meter above sea level, far from city noise and electric lines. The horizon at the array level is clear in almost every direction, with just a hill between 020° and 045°.
Here you can download a
short video of the horizon as viewed from lower antenna level, at 15 meter above
ground level (1,2 Mb).
The Tirrenium Sea is at about 5 kilometer from my qth and it's visible from my radio shack.
Equipment currently used:
IC-7800 by ICOM, is the main rig and it is used for 50 Mhz EME trafik.
TS-2000 by Kenwood, it is used for 50 Mhz back up, 144 Mhz EME, 432 Mhz, and 2400 Mhz with a down-converter by DB6NT for satellite trafik.
FT-857 by Yaesu, is the back-up rig and usually used for 144 Mhz local trafic.
TH-D7e by Kenwood, for APRS and hand-held operations.
TH-78e by Kenwood, connected to the local packet-cluster node.
TH-77e by Kenwood, used for hand-held operations.
Array 4x7 elements yagi for 50 Mhz
Array 4x12 elements yagi for 144 Mhz
M2 29 elements yagi for 432 Mhz
Tower PC Pentium III - 256 Mb Ram, for station log, packet cluster, tracking software, digital modes trafic.
Mini tower PC Pentium II - 128 Mb Ram, for spectrum analizer software and DSP system