Our Amateur Radio Station, The Radio Shack

2003 2005  To begin with our equipment was set up in a corner of the Dining Room, we now have our own Radio Shack.

An unusual moment in time, Avril 2E0KOP using SSB on the RSGB AFS contest 2007

The Station Equipment

The Main Station Transceiver is an Icom IC-7400 (IC-746Pro) with a maximum output of 100 Watts

The HF antenna system consists of:

A W3DZZ Trapped Dipole .
A Comet H-422 Rotary Dipole for 40/20/15 and 10m
We have  a CushCraft MA5B for 10/12/15/17/20 Meters on our Tennamast,

Our VHF Antennas are:
an 9 element Tonna  Horizontal Yagi for 2M and a HB9CV for 6 Meters currently taken down for servicing repairs
and a collinear for 2M Local working

The Station Computer is a Home Brew System using a AMD 1700 XP processor,
512 Megabytes of Ram, 80 G H D D, DVD Recorder, a Sound Blaster Live 24 Sound card.

It is connected to Two Monitors, Both are TFT  is used for Logging, Data modes, Web Design

and is connected to the Internet Router via Ether net connection.

A Rig Expert Tiny, acquired 2nd User which combines Cat Control and Sound card interface via the USB Port

Portable Operations

Our Portable Station

ICOM IC-735.

LDG Auto tuner.

A GM3VLB Mini Delta for 20,17,15,12 and 10 Meters see GM3VLB Mini Delta Antenna

assorted Fishing Poles and Dipoles, Laptop 

For data modes we use a Home Built Isolated Interface, designed by G4KQU see Simple Radio PTT To Computer Interface Circuits

a  HB9CV for 2M  for Portable operations