Photo Gallery of

VK3BJM.

 

Home Station photos:

 

A selection of photos of my home amateur radio station, located not far from Kyneton in Victoria’s Central Highlands.

 

A view of the western end of the house, showing (L-R) 50MHz J-pole vertical and dipole on 6.5m pipe; stacked 144MHz J-pole vertical on 8.5m pipe (which also supports a 3.5/7/14MHz trap dipole); discone on fascia mount; 144MHz 14-element Yagi and 432MHz 20-element Yagi on “Nally” tilt-over tower; and one of four 9m wooden poles that support a full wave wire loop for 3.5MHz.  The discone is the only antenna of commercial manufacture – and it was a gift from a friend!

 

A view of the tower, with the Yagi pointing towards Sydney.  2 cubic metres of concrete pad help keep everything upright, in spite of the strong winds that howl through the area on occasions.

 

The view towards Canberra/Sydney, along the boom of the 144MHz Yagi (at about 10m above ground)…

 

The operating desk, with assorted radio transceivers, transverters, power supplies, power amplifiers, control boxes and other what-nots.

 

The test bench – occasionally found to be tidy, but not ever for very long…

 

Twilight, with the new Moon and Venus on the western horizon.

 

In the last week of May 2006, I finally had time to replace my original single VHF & UHF Yagi with 4x Yagi arrays on both bands.

 

End of day 1: The first of four 14-element 144MHz Yagi mounted on the “H-Frame”.

 

A few days later:  All four 144MHz Yagi, plus the four 28-element 432MHz Yagi on the “H-Frame”.

 

 

All that metal weighs a bit; so much so that I had to add a little length to the winding handle of the Nally tower tilt winch – and jury-rig a counter-weight.

 

Phew!  All safely up – the new neighbour-scarer up and running.

 

And yes – it seems to work better than the single Yagi…

 

Last update: 30/5/2006

 

 

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