IZ2DAJ's Shack<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Guido Bressan"> </HEAD> <BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#FFF8DC" LINK="#0000EE" VLINK="#551A8B" ALINK="#FF0000" BACKGROUND="image1.gif"> <CENTER> <BIG><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <H1>Here is my shack!</H1> <P><IMG SRC="staz_new.jpg" WIDTH="100%"></P> <P><A HREF="../index.html">Back to the main page.</A></P> </CENTER> <P>This is my shack as of November 2010. <P>On the main shelf from left to right you can see: <UL> <LI>my Asus A6F laptop running Windows XP Home Edition (SP 2), which I use for almost everything related to ham radio (the windows visible on the screen are those of Digital Master 780 version 4.0 SP4, an excellent freeware tool designed by Simon Brown HB9DRV and useable for all of the digital modes available to the radio amateurs community... plus SSTV (which isn't digital) as an added bonus - just two words: <A HREF="http://www.ham-radio-deluxe.com/" TARGET="_blank">TRY IT!</A>) <LI>my Icom IC-706, which at present is my only working rig <LI>my CW key (substantially unused since many years) <LI>above the IC-706, my radio amateur smurf <LI>beside the smurf, my homemade antenna tuner </UL> <P>On the upper shelf from left to right you can see: <UL> <LI>a Daiwa AF-606K all-mode active filter (it is causing me trouble at the moment so I can't use it and I am looking forward for the time when I'll have a few hours to spend into its troubleshooting and - possibly - repair) <LI>the small box with the three knobs is the DigiHam interface I use to connect the computer to the IC-706 <LI>my Hoxin RW-200CN cross-needle SWR and power meter <LI>the dummy load that N4GU bought for me at a hamfair in the U.S. and handed out to my wife when she went on a work trip to Raleigh, NC </UL> <P>On the table to the left you can see: <UL> <LI>a homemade 12-volt 150-watt power supply unit that I use for everything around the shack but the IC-706 <LI>a Zetagi HP-12-S 12-volt 180-watt power supply unit that I use exclusively for the IC-706 </UL> <P>Finally, all around my ham radio stuff there are traces of some of my other interests, more specifically on the musical side: my record player (yes, I love the old vynil records of my youth), the corners of my hi-fi pieces of equipment and some of my audio CDs. <CENTER> <P><A HREF="../index.html">Back to the main page.</A></P> </BIG> </BODY> </HTML>