Rigs at Home
(This page has lots more to
come. I just ran out of steam when I got
side-tracked writing about antennas and decided to create a separate section
linked to this one. Like the old song, “Sometime soon . . .” Until then, be
satisfied with the answer, “Kenwood TS520 at 100 watts, MFJ tuner, inverted-V
fan dipole on 10-80 meters.)
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It is easy to lose sight of what one wants to
accomplish with amateur radio. Some
operators set up a station that would be appropriate for a Norwegian resistance
fighter hiding from the Nazis; others build a warehouse onto their
residence. Like most things in my life,
I strive to be in between extremes. My
station resides in the basement along with many reference books, manuals,
computer parts, wire, test instruments, tools, cameras, microscopes, and rock
climbing gear. Having moved so many
times, the primary furniture style revolves around plastic milk crates. These are exactly the correct size for books
and file folders, stack nicely, and are very cheap when purchased in volume
after