Fadette, Alabama Geneva County - EM71fb In 2005, Bonnie and I, moved to Fadette (16 miles SW of Dothan, AL) and have been working on the station ever since. Recently, I have retired after 23+ years as an "on the road salesman". Glad that is over, the 1200 driving miles every week was getting to be a bit much. Some have said that when they retired, they don't know how they had time to work with everything else that is going on. I have been missing a lot by working! Looking forward to catching up with my YL, our grandson, son and daughter, as well as other stuff. The WX is pretty good at this writing, so am looking forward to getting some antenna work done in the near future. 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! Was best described by Ray/N6HE on the Writelog reflector: "just having fun using my favorite modes going as fast as I can (without being frenetic) for only the joy of it. The closest analogy I can think of is a dog with his head out of a car's window, with that enthusisatic look on his face, not really caring where the car is headed or if the car is going 45 or 65...he's just happy!" Miscellaneous 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

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Station Description HF Rigs: Yaesu FT-2000D Yaesu FT-1000D Amplifier: Ten Tec Centurion Interface: Running a new Win7/32 computer with an add on card (Rosewill RC-305e (PCI-Express) 4-port Comm Card). This gives me serial ports for Com2, Com3, Com4 and Com5. Here is the rundown: Com2 CW and FSK, selectable, using the W3YY CW/FSK Interface running MMTTY for the decode. Com3 rig control for the FT2000D, a direct connection between the radio and the computer. Com4 rig control for the FT1000D via a homebrewed RS232 interface. Com5 reserved for a future RTTY Terminal Unit (KT4FY Multimodem). Com1 is included on the computer main board. It is not employed as yet, but perhap in the future. I also have a WKUSB Keyer that I am planning on using with this setup. Although I am really not a SO2R CW op. I barely can handle one radio in CW...hi Will be adding audio switching in the future. Software: I use Writelog as my contest logger. I have been using it for over 15 years. I have used others and there are several very good quality packages out there, but I keep coming back to Writelog, old habits are hard to break! Tower 1: 70' Rohn 25 Hygain 105CA @ 77' and 155CA @ 71' 40m Delta Loop 160m Dipole 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 will going at 64' as soon as it can! Will be using the Array Solutions Stack Match. This will also be home to a 80m Inverted Vee. A 30m delta loop one of these days. Tower 3: 42' Alumminum Cushcraft A3WS (3L 12m/17m) @ 56' Homebrew 5L 6m beam thanks to Tom/K4ZGB.

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