Radio

Ham Radio

I’ve been involved with amateur or ham radio for a few years now and I’m beginning to refine the philosophy of operations, so here, if you will are the key aims that I have regard when operating. I have 2 rules that I shall be sticking to…….

1. Make the most of your station – Yes I would love a brand new kilowatt station with all the bells and whistles but its
not going to happen, with 100 Watts I plan to optimise what I have in the most cost effective way so I can enjoy what I
have

2. Put something back in – My beacon monitoring station will be the only g station that is providing HF propagation
information based on beacon monitoring that I can find, he intention is to build a self sufficient station that can
effectively provide propagation information for my QTH

The Station

Main operating station

ICOM IC-7000 All mode HF-UHF transceiver
LDG AT7000 ATU
CT-17 Computer Interface
SP13000 mini-itx low power consumption PC
Diamond HFV-5 compact HF and 50Mhz antenna (loft
mounted)
5 element 6m yagi (loft mounted)
Ham Radio Deluxe software
Signalink sound card interface

Faros station

Icom IC-703
Sony AN-1 active antenna (loft mounted)

Internet Resources

There is a wealth of information available on the internet to help with DX’ing, using these indications the chances of QSO’ing can be increased, or at least it could stop you CQ’ing un necessarily

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