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Base Station
Base Station
I have moved to the new location so I am in process to move the all ham gears. I still have Rohn 25G tower and Cushcraft A3S tribander at other QTH which will stay there for remote station use. At new location, ham shack is modest;
Rig: Yeasu Ft1000MP, FTdx 5000MP. I have been using Ft 1000MP for last 15+ years without any problem. It has been a great radio and never had any problem. Just upgraded to FTdx 5000MP so I can play with new toy, it is a very good receiver and really works wonder to work weak signals. The IF output from the 5000mp is connected to LP PAN-2 and NAP3 to have a nice display of receive signal, it looks great but I hardly use it for anything but monitor adjacent stations for activities. I also have Micro Tuning unit for 20 meter from Yeasu, it is used for weak station reception, it does a good job as long as you know how to use it, requires lots of learning and tweaking to get best out of it.
Antennas: BigIR vertical antenna, covers from 40 meter to 6 meter. I have extensive ground radial system installed for vertical antenna. Total of 60 radials, ranging from 33 Feet to 200 Feet in length. I have spent many weekends and evening laying down, total of 6000 feet of wire for ground system. So far, I am very happy with its performance, I have been able to work local and DX contacts without much of effort. See below map;
Amplifier: THP HL-450 B, SGC 500 SmartCube, and Amp supply LK-500ZC ( I mostly use Amp Supply 500 ZC with 1 KW of power). The Amp Supply has a pair of Eimac 3-500z tubes and it is a real work horse. Since, I spent 99% of my haming on 20 meter; I hardly ever touch the Amplifier for any tuning.
Rig Control Software: I use Ham Radio Deluxe for the Rig control and logging, works great, no complaints so far.