SHACK of KI6LO

Operating

I am active on HF, VHF and UHF. Although I am not a die hard fan on any mode or band, I do mainly work phone or digital modes. Not being particualrly fond of contests, I will give out a point here and there if I hear a needed prefix or area. I mainly operate phone and enjoy chasing DX and have taken the leap into the magic band, 6 meters.


HF Station

  • Kenwood TS-940S/AT 160-10M 100W transceiver
  • Kenwood TS-440S/AT 160-10M 100W transceiver
  • Ameritron AL-811 160-10M 600W Amplifier
  • Kenwood SM-220 Station Monitor
  • W2IHY EQ-Plus Audio Processor
  • Heil GM-5 Goldline Microphone
  • Kenwood MC-80 Microphone
  • Kenwood SW-2000 SWR/Watt meter with SWC-1 and SWC-3 couplers
  • Heathkit Active Audio Filter (good filter but non-DSP)
  • Radioshack HTX-10 10M Multimode 25W transceiver
  • MFJ 989C Legal Limit Antenna Tuner
  • Kantronics KAM w/ vers E8.0 Prom (for HF packet and RTTY)
  • Various homebrew interface boxes and switches to control connections to soundcard and TNC digital mode operations.
  • Antennas:
    • Force 12 C3S 20-10M Yagi atop a 40 foot tower
    • OCFD (Off Center Fed Dipole) 80-10M @ 40 foot flattop 135 ft long
    • 40M 1/4 wave vertical with twenty five 33 foot long radials


VHF/UHF Station

  • Yaesu FT-726R with 2M and 430 modules and Satellite Board for full duplex operation
  • Ten-Tec Model 1209 2M to 6M transverter (used with FT-726R on 2M)
  • TE Systems 0510G 10w in/ 170w out 6M amplifier
  • Yaesu FT-1500M 2M, currently the full time APRS radio for KI6LO-10
  • Yaesu FT-1500M 2M, local FM use
  • Yaesu TH-D7A 2M/70cm handheld, assigned APRS ID of KI6LO-15
  • Yaesu VX-2R Dualband Micro HT w/ Comet SMA-24 antenna - for daily caring.
  • Antennas:
    • Pair of homebrew Moxon 'turnstile' antennas for 2M and 70cm satellite work (from article by L.B. Cebik in QST August 2001)
    • 5 element 2M yagi (converted Radioshack FM rcv antenna - QST 7/99 article)
    • 5/8 wave colinear vertical used for APRS but can be switch when needed.
    • Cushcraft A50-5S 5 element 6M yagi @ 40 ft (modified with EZNEC3 - click here for info on my updates)


Mobile Station

  • Yaesu FT-100D 160M-70cm 100W transceiver
    • W6AAQ DK3 screwdriver antenna tunable 80M through 10M
    • Diamond 2M monobander
  • Kenwood TM-G707A 2m/70cm 50W transceiver
    • Diamond dual band antenna


PC System-Interfaces-Software

  • Intel PIII 1Ghz - 512Mb RAM - 30Gb HD - Windows 2000 - Cablemodem - Soundcard
  • Homebrew soundcard interface
  • DX Suite Station software (log, cluster, propogation, QSLing, other stuff) - check it out
  • MMSSTV - just learning SSTV and liking it so far.
  • W6NEK's HFBeaconTracker - used to watch for band openings
  • Kam Terminal - old DOS program with dual RX/TX windows. Easy to use and I really like it so I still use it for packet and raw APRS data monitoring.
  • ORBITRON Satellite Tracking program - very nice and free for postcard