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Old picture above, probably about 2000. Current station: FT1000D with my own internal mods FT1000MP with my mods FT100MP MKV Ten Tec Orion IC751A's Heavily modified diversity stereo R4C's (mostly solid state now, and phase locked to each other) 3CX800A7 homebrew on 6 meters AL1200 for FT1000 AL1500 for IC751A and 1000MP Homebrew Solid State amp with (16) MRF-150's
Boat anchors DX-60 station with HQ-180
My first commercial rig from 1963 a used Globe 65A and VF-1 AntennasI have various wire and yagi antennas, but here are my main towers.
~200 ft insulated tower has about one hundred 200ft long radials. It supports centenary lines that support my 160 four-square eight direction transmitting antenna. The tower is for omni-directional pattern on 160.
318-ft insulated base tower
Same 318ft tower
Workshop, rotating 160ft tower, 318ft tower in background.
Current view rotating tower
Workshop
Rope sloping down to 100ft tall trees (400ft away) is from a 300ft high Inverted Vee dipole. That tree line will be the location of a new 320ft tower that will support a 300ft high and 500 ft wide Distributed Feed Curtain Array with screen reflector for 80 and 40 meters beamed on Europe. Antenna fields for receiving antennas as seen from 300ft tower at 200ft level. The tree line in background of pasture contains my middle and rear groups of Beverages. To the right of this area is a pasture with receiving verticals.
Lifting 150 feet of American 19" face tower in one piece. Guylines attached.
Receiving AntennasI now have three groups of antennas I call front, middle, and rear. The distance from the front hub to the rear hub is about 3000 feet. The wide spacing provides diversity reception. The following antennas are at each hub: RearBeverage antennas broadside pairs 350w by 800 long E, SE, S, SW, W, NW Beverage broadside triples 350x350 wide by 800 long NE and NW (all can be switched to doubles or singles) 8 circle of verticals 350ft diameter MiddleBeverage antennas broadside pairs 300w by 700 long NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW (all can be switched to doubles or singles) FrontBeverage pairs NE Single Beverage NW, SE Two RX four-squares in broadside array Broadside end-fire for NE or SW
Eight vertical receiving array rear field.
Front vertical array area. Typical element construction.
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