In this page you can see my antennas, transceivers and some of my other equipments listed. But remember that the operator behind the machines do the trick. Antennas: HF A good HF antenna can take you around the world (well almost! hihi). Remember a well fed antenna is a happy antenna also! Current
antennas erected with the kind help of SV1JGW, both antennas represented in Greece by www.dxsignal.gr  Previous HF antenna:  VHF  7 el. vhf antenna (DK7ZB)
Portable antennas: a) An 5 el. made by SW1JGW (DK7ZB design) usually supported by SP-2000 a preamplifier made by SSB ELEKTRONIK. b) Handheld v/u arrow antenna you can see it: http://www.arrowantennas.com/146-437.html c) For HF (40 - 2M) the "The multiface portable antenna " made by the SV1HK http://www.sv1hk.gr/page16.htm high recommended for the serious /p radioamateur. d) Another good performer antenna especially for /p operations or restricted areas, is the end fed dipole with the combine of a 9:1 unun. With the end-fed antennas you have not any excuse for staying off the air... Even if you are busy/lazy enough and not wish to assemble, get one ready made end-fed antenna. They are cheap. For example: http://www.snowdonia-radio-company.co.uk/src-antennas-hf.html d) Also for HF (80 - 10M.) bands the mini & lightweight ATX-1080 MK 2 suits my FT-817. For proper counterpoises visit: G4ILO's site: http://www.g4ilo.com/atx.html or SV1UY's site: http://www.qsl.net/sv1uy/counterpoisekit.html e) A portable mast DIY style While trying make qso's during fall vhf party (see below) I saw the handmade mast used by John SV1BJY. After getting useful infos from John I went forward to buy some alloy tubes (Manousaridis Bros, tel. 210 2715650). So the mast now is ready, built from five 110cm. length tubes (wider tube diam. 4cm.). Est voiloa! A portable durable mast consisting of five sections. Dimensions 110cm closed, 5m. extended.  I can ad sections from my non-conductive military mast to extend the height. Or for HF use the DIY mast can act as a five meter radiator on top of military mast 5 -10m. above ground. The shack: The RF from the antennas reach to my shack through Aircom plus cables (both HF & VHF). On the shack the main rigs are Icoms. The IC-756PROIII (hears almost any weak signal) for HF and IC-910H for vhf bands. For digimodes the main interface is the reliable DigiMaster MiniPRO 2 usb (one interface two radio - very useful, look in my Digimodes page).  in any shack the use of a low pass filter is obligatory
in order to eliminate interference, I am currently using the Bencher YA-1
 every digimodes user has to
align his emmited signal to optimum, here with Pskmeter constructed by SV1EIA for me  other rigs:
Yaesu FT-817 in the left, an extraordinary HF & VHF allmode a good & reliable outdoor companion for the radio amateur  Kenwood TR-751 a very reliable, sensitive vhf allmode rig: http://www.rigpix.com/kenwood/tr751e.htm The famous Icom IC-706MKIIg fitted for mobile use (the cigars you see are not mine - I do not smoke) in my previous car:  Rig to PC or Soundcard interfaces Ready built http://www.g4zlp.co.uk/index.shtml http://www.tigertronics.com/ Homemade http://www.g4ilo.com/usblink.html http://sites.google.com/site/kh6tyinterface/ |
