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Current equipment in the shack
10 meters:
Single Elecraft K3 transceiver, no second receiver board.
Acom 2000A 2 x 4cx800 amp.
Henry 3K Classic mkII extensively reworked to make it actually usable.
Green Heron Engineering rotator controller for TX2 f/u/w 120 foot high Yagi.
Array Solutions Power Master digital wattmeter.
4 GHz eight core computer w/22 inch flat panel monitor.
W3NQN style low power band pass filter.
High power co-axial stub filters to minimize inter station interference.
Winkeyer USB and Bencher BY-1 paddles
Green Heron Everyware wireless hardware controllers.
15 meters:
'Run' rig: Elecraft K3 transceiver, no second receiver board.
Alpha 8410 2 x 4cx-1000 amp.
'Mult' rig: Elecraft K3 transceiver.
Acom 2000A 2 x 4cx800 amp
Lockout boxes for so only ONE rig can transmit at a time. Mult station has priority.
Green Heron Engineering rotator controllers f/u/w Alpha Spid rotator at 120 feet and 2 ring rotators at 80 feet and 40 feet.
RF Applications, Inc P-3000 digital wattmeter.
Array Solutions Stack Match controller.
2 each 4 GHz dual eight computer w/22 inch flat panel monitor.
W3NQN style low power band pass filter after rig for both 'run' and 'mult' rigs.
High power co-axial stub filters to minimize inter station interference.
High power band pass filters by VA6AM, for both 'run' and 'mult' stations.
Winkeyer USB and Bencher BY-1 paddles.
Green Heron Everyware wireless hardware controllers.
20 meters:
'Run' rig: Elecraft K3 transceiver, no second receiver board.
Alpha 8410 2 x 4cx-1000 amp.
'Mult' rig: Yaesu FT-1000MP
QRO HF-2500 2 x 4cx800 amp
Lockout boxes for so only ONE rig can transmit at a time. Mult station has priority.
Green Heron Engineering/K7NV rotator controller f/u/wlarge pattern prop pitch gearbox to turn top half of 20 meter 4 stack.
Array Solutions Power Master digital wattmeter.
W3NQN style low power band pass filters for both 'run' and 'mult' stations.
High power band pass filter by VA6AM
2 each 4 GHz eight core computer w/22 inch flat panel monitor
High power co-axial stub filters to minimize inter station interference.
Winkeyer USB and Bencher BY-1 paddles, both rigs.
Green Heron Everyware wireless hardware controllers.
40 meters:
'Run' rig: Elecraft K3 transceiver, with second receiver board.
Homebrew 8877 monoband amp.
'Mult' rig: Elecraft K3 tranceiver.
Alpha 8410 2 x 4cx-1000 amp
Lockout boxes for so only ONE rig can transmit at a time. Mult station has priority.
2 each 4 GHz eight core computer w/22 inch flat panel monitors
Green Heron Engineering rotator controllers for top 4 el 40 @ 190 feet and 3 el 40 @ 73 feet.
LP-100 digital wattmeter.
High power co-axial stub filters to minimize inter station interference.
High power band pass filters by VA6AM, for both 'run' and 'mult' stations.
Winkeyer USB and Bencher BY-1 paddles.
Green Heron Everyware wireless hardware controllers.
80 meters:
Single Elecraft K3 transceiver, with second receiver board.
3-1000 monoband amp. BTI with all new tank components and remote 4.5kv power supply.
Array Solutions Power Master digital wattmeter.
4 GHz eight core computer w/dual 22 inch flat panel monitors.
W3NQN style low power band pass filter.
High power co-axial stub filters to minimize inter station interference.
High power band pass filtes by VA6AM
Winkeyer USB and Bencher BY-1 paddles.
Green Heron Everyware wireless hardware controllers.
160 meters:
Single Elecraft K3 transceiver, with second receiver board.
4-1000 monoband homebrew amp or Acom 2000A amp.
LP-100 digital wattmeter
W3NQN style low power band pass filter.
High power low pass filter by VA6AM.
Winkeyer USB and Bencher BY-1 paddles.
4 GHz eight core computer w/22 inch flat panel monitor.
Green Heron Everyware wireless hardware controllers.
2 ea Alpha 86, Ten Tec Titan, QRO HF-2500, and Henry 3K Classic MKII as ‘all band’ spare amplifiers. Hopefully, never needed.
N1MM used exclusively for all of my CW and RTTY contesting.
4 GHz dual core computer as my ‘ADMIN’ computer . This is the computer that is connected to the outside world. Packet and skimmer spots are received on this computer and then sent across the local network.