Equipment
As it is with any hobby, the amount of stuff and equipment grows with the years. The video below was taken in January,2000 and gives an impression of the activity in my shack. Unfortunately, the original high-quality movie file is lost, so I can only give you a small version of it, which I found saved at some time.
The area with the transceivers most used can be seen in the picture below (click on it if you want a really huge and detailed version of it).
After several years this gave me the following list of commercial ham equipment (besides a lot of home-brewed modems, amplifiers and many more):
| Transceivers |
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| VHF | Kenwood TR9000 with system base BO-9 and external power supply PS-20 mounted in the shack | |
| Kenwood TR2600 with base stand ST-2 (portable) | ||
| Kenwood TM221 with external power supply (installed in the living room to be QRV at all times ...) | ||
| Yeasu FT212RH installed in my car for mobile communication | ||
| VHF/UHF | Kenwood TM-V7 2m/70cm | |
| satellite tuner Strong SRT 331LT | ||
| SHF | 13 cm ATV kit by ON7IZ and pre-amplifier by ON7IZ (approx. 500 mW) | |
| HF | Kenwood TS-940S with station monitor SM-220, SP-940 and MC-60 | |
Others |
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| Daiwa CNA-2002 2kW automatic antenna tuner | ||
| Yeasu G-1000SDX antenna rotor | ||
| Daiwa PS-120 XM power supply (0-15 Volts / 14 A) | ||
| Daiwa LA-2065 GaAs VHF linear amplifier (output approx. 60 W) | ||
| Welz SP-230 VHF power & SWR meter | ||
| TSA-6601 144/430 MHz power & SWR meter | ||
Antenna |
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| VHF | 9 element Tonna 144 MHz beam | |
| Comet omnidirectional 144 MHz ( lambda/4) one for the shack and another for the living room ... | ||
| UHF | 64 element Jaybeam 430 MHz beam | |
| Comet omnidirectional 430 MHz (lambda/4) | ||
| SHF | 62 element RSE for sending on 13 cm (2300-2450 MHz) | |
| 49 element FlexYagi FX2317 for reception of 23 cm | ||
| HF | 3 band beam Cushcraft 7 element X7 | |
| Barker-Williamson dipole all band (0-30 MHz) | ||
Meteosat |
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| 80 cm parabole with 4 element Yagi | ||
Grundig MST100 Meteosat Receiver |
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and, of course, some PC's, laptops and lots of smaller apparatus and components ... |
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