Our Shack - Come and visit!!!!! - 432 Daniels Hall North Carolina State University

Our Equipment (we welcome all donations!!):

HF (High Frequency/Shortwave, 1.8-30 MHz):

  • Drake TR-4 which covers 160-m through 10-m with an output of approx 200 watts.
  • Kenwood TS-180 (on loan from Jeremiah, KE4LSU)
  • Kenwood TS-820
  • Kenwood TS-530 (in need of repairs)

HF Antennas:

  • A Hy-Gain TH6-DXX 6-element yagi for 10m/15m/20m with HAM-III rotor, mounted 26m above street level (11m above the roof) atop the tower that we used in the early 1980s for moon-bounce work.
  • 80m inverted vee fed off our tower at 24m for working N/S, and an 80m dipole that is 20m over the building's courtyard for working E/W.
  • Two 40m dipoles pointed roughly NNE/SSW and ESE/WNW, both fed at about 23m.
  • Cushcraft R7 vertical for 40/30/20/17/15/12/10m.
  • The wire antennas are selected using an Ameritron remote coax switch

VHF (50-450 MHz):

  • Yaesu FT-221 2m all-mode running 25 watts.
  • Icom IC-551 6m all-mode running 20 watts.
  • Yaesu FT-5100 2m FM running 50 watts (on loan from Glenn, KF4RDN)

VHF Antennas:

  • 2 meters: 13-el Cushcraft yagi, fed with Heliax (gift from K4CSO) and mounted at 23m on a roof-top mast with Ham-III rotor.
  • 6 meters: Cuschcraft 5-element Yagi (gift from N3NPQ) on same mast as 2 meter beam.
  • 70 cm: Twin 432 19-el yagis (not currently mounted)
  • Diamond X-500HNA vertical for 2m/440 FM

Packet: (Computers "talking" via radios)

  • Alinco DR-1200 packet radio (on loan from Bill, KD4EUW) connected to a "KAM" all-mode TNC.
  • Ringo Ranger 2m vertical antenna.
  • Clone PC running Redhat Linux 7.1 (with administrative support from WW4M, KF4RDN, and N3NPQ)


INTERNET
The computer in our shack also provides packet radio access via the internet to club members. For more information about packet access, please see this page.