Fadette, Alabama Geneva County - EM71fb The purpose of this station is to have FUN in CW, PH and RY contests. I am NO super op by any means and especially not on CW, but I am sure that I can have some FUN with this station. DXing is secondary source of fun! Rag chewing is always a possibility! Computer/Interface: Running a Win7/32 computer as the main station system. Added a Rosewill RC-305e (PCI-Express) 4-port Comm Card. This gave a number of serial ports for Com1, Com2, Com3, Com4 and Com5. Here is the rundown: Com1 is included on the computer main board. W3YY FSK/CW/PTT Interface for the FT2000D, MMTTY for decode. Com2 Another W3YY FSK/CW interface for the FT1000D. Built another--but did have a bit of trouble with it working with the FT-1000D. See this link for more information: PTT/CW/FSK Transistor Interface. Use MMTTY for the RTTY decoding. Com3 rig control for the FT2000D, a direct connection between the radio and the computer. Com4 rig control for the FT1000D via a homebrewed RS-232 interface. Com5 not used at this time. I also have a WKUSB Keyer that I am planning on using with this setup, so that I can switch the CW keying between each radio. Although I am NOT a SO2R CW op. I barely can handle one radio in CW...hi.. Acquired a DX Doubler in a trade recently, so will try to get that up and running as well. Will be adding audio break out box and switching in the future. Secondary Computer: Added another computer for the VHF station and to run some of the other products. More information will be forthcoming about this setup. Software: Use Writelog as my contest logger. I have been using it since 1995. I have tried other loggers and there are several very good quality packages out there, but I keep coming back to Writelog, old habits are hard to break! Miscellaneous Transistor PTT/CW/FSK Interface Pictures: Nov 24th, 2007 Aug 9th, 2009 EWE Receiving Antenna Stubs: I am using the K2TR Coax Stub scheme. You can see the details at K1TTT website. I did add another stub (46'6" OPEN) to the 40M configuration to null 80M. Stubs Case #1 Stubs Case #2 Stubs Case #3 Mast Holding Fixture TIC Ring Rotor 80M Sloper hardware CATV 1/2" Hardline Connector Mobile Stuff November SS Analysis: I wrote this article for the Alabama Contest Group a few month before the 2008 SS CW/PH contests. Even thought it is a few years ago, it still may be appropriate. "Limited" SO2R: this page containes information about the SO2R setup (primarily RTTY) that I had when living in Florida. It might be of interest to those that are considering SO2R. Old Antennas: a bit of information about fixing old antennas.

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Station Description HF Rigs: Yaesu FT-2000D Yaesu FT-1000D VHF Station: Kenwood TR-751A for 2m. Yaesu FT-2000D for 6m. HF Amplifier: Ten Tec Centurion Drake L4B (This is a future project) Tower 1: 70' Rohn 25 Cushcraft 104CD at 78' (rotatable) and a homebrew 4L10m (built the same as the Cushcarft) at 39' fixed to Europe. Have both of these stacked with a Array Solutions Stack Match. Also a Hy-Gain 155CA @ 71' 40m Delta Loop 80m Dipole at 65' F9FT Tonna 2m Antenna Tower 2: 107' Rohn 45 Picture above is the Cushcraft 40-2D @ 118' and the Hy-Gain 204BA @ 108' Here is some information on the Cushcraft 40-2CD renovation. Have another Hy-Gain 204BA that is fixed at 64'. Just need to put the Array Solutions Stack Match in and run the coax. Have installed an 80m Inverted Vee at 100'. A 30m delta loop one of these days. Tower 3: 42' Alumminum Cushcraft A3WS (3L 12m/17m) @ 43' Homebrew 5L 6m beam @ 48' thanks to Tom/K4ZGB.

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