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Bill Winkis -KC4PE
Cataula, Georgia
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Operating Console ............................... Station Wiring .................................... Audio Equipment
Near Field Monitors ............................. Antenna Systems ................................................ Hazer
Antenna Transfer Switches ..............................Grounding ...........................Power Conditioning
IC 781 Variac ...................................... Doped Ground Rod ..........................................Wavenode
Wayne Overbeck VU Meter .............. LP-100 Vector Meter ........ Moetronix "SpectraVue: IC-SDR
Operating Console - Panoramic view
Operating Desk
| ....Radio's.. | ..Antenna.. | ..Height.. |
| Flex-5000A | 20 M-5 ele/19 Meter | ..142'/43 Meters |
| Icom IC-781 | Multi Band Log-10 ele | 104'/14 Meters |
| Yaesu FT-2000 | Quad-2 ele-5 bands-10 Meter | 58'/21 Meters |
| HyTower/Vertical-Multi Band | 57'/17 Meters | |
| AOR-7030 | 2 ele loops 40 & 80 | 100'/13 Meters |
| SpectraVue SRD-IQ | Bazooka 40 & 80 | 110'/37 Meters |
| G5RV Spotting Ant | 80'/25 Meters |
Right side of operating console......
Center of operating console
Note: Switch Panel to the left of the Ft-2000, it switches AF & RF between the three radio's. Details below!!
Left side of operation console
Station Wiring & Interconnect Print
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Audio Rack for Enhanced SSB/AM Audio
Tascam Mini Disk Digital Recorder
Behringer VX2496 Microphone Preamplifier
Antaries MIcrophone Modeler
Behringer DEQ 2496 Audio Processor/EQ/Limiter
Aphex 204 Audio Processor
Alesis Microverb III
Tascam DAT Digital Tape Recorder
Yamaha Digital O1V Digital Mixer
Microphones
Neumann U-47 (tube)
Neumann U-87 (condenser)
Electrovoice RE-320 (dyanamic)
Beyer M260 (ribbon)
Groove Tube GT55 (FET condenser
Antenna set up...Vertical....10 ele Log @ 104'...5 on 20 @ 142'....4 Band - 4 ele Quad @70'...Co-phased 80 & 40 delta loops. 40 & 80 Lo Band Boozaka..with a G5RV spotter.
HyGain 18HT vertical 2 -160 meters, with 3300 feet of buried radials
Four band - 4 Element Quad on a Glen Martin Hazer Trolley @ 70 feet ..Separate feed lines/co-ax transformers
Close up of Glen Martin Hazer Trolley System
Miss Donna ... Quad Builder & encouraging Wife
Items Of Interest
PTT for each radio and transfer relay switches from "Top Ten Devices Inc" relays model number ABSS
Grounding & AC Power protection
Polyphaser Copper Pass Through Panel
The PolyPhaser PLDO is a Power line extension protector with multi-strike capability, and a circuit breaker for added protection....The IS-B50 is a dc blocked 50 Ohm bulkhead mounted protector connected directly to the copper pass through plate.. The Tripplite Isolation/Conditioner transformers are the IS1000 ... the Power Regulators and Conditioners are the ....LC-1800
Solid Copper feed through plates with total PolyPhaser protection,"Delta Loop Four Rod Grounding System" plus another 20, 8 foot ground rods!!
Wayne Overbeck Calibrated VU Meter
Turn off the receivers AGC, and look at the incoming signals audio intensity, great for testing and checking antenna performance against beacons and continuous carriers. Look up "measuring Antennae gain", Oct. 1977 -QST, via Wayne Overbeck!! It's good down to 1/2 dB. Fun to plot /antenna/VU Strength/MUF, its neat to see the high antenna disappear and the low ones come into play!!!! Also plot your spray versus signal ... its a Fun-Fun- Toy!!!!
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Examples of a few of the tests that can be run with the LP-100, on the "fly" .......... This unit is amazing, see the full details at....telepostinc.com
Ham Shack Computers
Work Bench
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Moetronix SDR-IQ Receiver
USB platform ... Runs with the "SpectraVue Software, a lot of "Bang For The Buck", in a $399.00 SRD receiver ... I use it to monitor my output TX signal, and band activity other that the frequency/band I'm on at present ..... You buy the assembled board and have to build your own enclosure. Go back up top and look at the panoramic picture , the monitor on the right shows a two tone display from the IQ.....
Work Bench
Wavenode WN-1 Computer Driven RF Station Monitor with RF2 Rotator Controllers
