Station Equipment

The main radios are a Elecraft K3 and a K4.  On HF-6m I use a KPA-1500 or a W6PQL LDMOS amp as the HF amplifier.  On 2m I use a W6PQL LDMOS kW amplifier. Homebrew transverters are used on 144 - 432 MHz with various tube amplifiers to get a few hundred Watts for each band.  On 903 - 10 GHz I use largely Downeast Microwave transverters driving small solid state amplifiers to no more than 10 Watts each.

Antennas

Antennas are supported by a 90' Rohn 25G tower and in the case of wire antennas, some nearby tress have been enlisted.

Band Antenna
160m Inv-L over FCP
80m Inverted vee, apex at 87'
40m Inverted vee, apex at 62'
20/15/10m Momobeam TRI10 Tribander at 90'
6m 4 element Yagi
2m FO12
222 MHz FO16
432 MHz K2RIW 19 el Yagi
1296 MHz
45 el Loopyagi
15m
3 el Yagi at 35' on a separate tree-mounted tower

 

K1TR shack Jan 2025

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