Equipment Archive

Radio equipment that used to belong to the club. This page was created in January 2023.

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)