First a view of my dishes from the shack door, on top of the OLD shack
Next go over to the old shack and look at radio aerials on the house roof.
L to R: Three Aerials
1) Near vertical approx 5 m to 6m wire as "whip" from Shack, insulated by nylon rope at top. Works 14MHz to 50MHz.
2) 4.5m long 13dB gain 145MHz aerial on Motor drive
3) Discone on 6ft pole at Chimney (25MHz to 1300MHz)
Turning to left rising above 6ft wall is 2m/70cm (145MHz / 435MHz) colinear, Watson 300. Aerial pole at highest point of garden and must be over 45ft. The Watson 300 is about 10ft/3m long.
You can see the support wire to right of the 20m/66ft end fed wire for 160m to 30m (1.8MHz to 10MHz). In the next photo you see the far "open" end of the aerial wire.
Looking out front of Radio Shack:
(If you look close you can see a dual band magmount aerial on the car)
Now in the Shack:
1) Electronic Assembly & parts
On the bench are Bearcat/Uniden scanner good for 137MHz Weather Satellite, Alinco dual band 2m/70cm FM handie and VR500 all mode 100kHz to 1300MHz pocket communications receiver.
The "bluish" PIII heatsink has a "dead bug" style built experimental 100W MosFET PA (1.8MHz to 30MHz) @ 36V supply using cheap 2 Euro SMPSU transistors.
2) Test & Repair area
3)overview of radio half of shack
:: Aerial rotator on top of PC case.
On RHS:
:: Marine Radio for Weather / Lough Derg / Shannon (hanging under shelf). 1970s vintage
:: Racal Syncal30 100KHz to 30MHz 22W Transeiver (Phone handset for mic & speaker). 1980s vintage. Runs from 24V battery pack or 24V "laptop" 150W mains PSU. Manpack, Built in Whip tuner.
:: CB that is in for repair.
Far LHS bookshelves is some small test gear.
Close up of LHS
:: Modified CB 25.5MHz to 29.5MHz for 10m and drive the two black boxes which are 144MHz and 435MHz transverters (about 8W TX)
:: PSU on top shelf built in an old SCSI drive case
:: 2M (145MHz) FM 24 channel 10W Tranceiver
:: FT817ND connected to PC (100kHz to 500MHz RX, all bands except 70MHz from 18.MHz to 435MHz TX 5W, all modes)
:: Home brew version of KW107 EZ match aerial match/tuner 160M to 10m
:: FT101ZD MkIII 160m to 10m Transeiver approx 100W. Connects to Computer for PSK31, SSTV, etc
:: PC screen with home brew 80W HF amp for FT817ND, internal battery, manual or automatic band filters.