Radio #1 is a Yaesu FT1000MP Mark V with the following filters:
2.4 kHZ and 2.0 kHz for SSB.
500 Hz in the 8MHz IF and 400Hz Inrad in the 455 kHz IF
250 Hz in the 8MHz IF and 200Hz Inrad in the 455 kHz IF
The radio has the Inrad Key Click Mod in place along with the Inrad 4 kHz Roofing Filter.
This radio is used with a HAL Communications ST-8000 RTTY Modem.
Radio #2 is a Yaesu FT1000MP Mark V Field with the following filters:
2.4 kHZ and 2.0 kHz for SSB.
500 Hz in both IFs
250 Hz in both IFs
The radio has the Inrad Key Click Mod in place along with the Inrad 4 kHz Roofing Filter.
This radio is used with a Frederick Electronics 1280A FSK Modem for RTTY.
Additionally I have 6 Harris RF-350K/RT-1446 100 watt transceivers, which will eventually be set up for contesting – one dedicated radio on each band. These radios are literally bullet-proof, the receivers are great, but they do not have a VFO. The Yaesu radios will then be used for multiplier hunting.
Harris transceiver
I have two Frederick Electronics 1280A Modems for RTTY and I also have the HAL PCI-3000, PCI-4000 and the P38 internal boards.
The antenna farm is unique in the respect that I have three antenna sites. They beam towards EU, JA and USA respectively.
There is approximately one kilometer separation between the EU/JA and the USA sites.
All antennas are fed with 600 ohm open wire feeders from gantries outside the house. 50 ohm LDF-4 hardline coaxial cable is run underground to RF Baluns and transformers on the gantries to feed the antennas.
I use only top quality N connectors from Huber & Suhner in my station and until now I have had no issues with the connectors whatsoever.
The baluns are from DXEngineering , but I have had to rebuild them into better enclosures with beefier hardware for the harsh TF conditions.
I have two 6 port remote antenna switches from Array Solutions and two StackMatch devices controlling the antenna switching. This enables me to choose any antenna instantenously, and to transmit and receive in any combination of antennas with very little change in SWR.
My plan is to have three separate operating positions, one for EU, one for JA and the third for USA each with an complete range of antennas.
I have run separate high current power feeds to the three operating positions.
I will then be able to operate in the Single Op – single TX, Multi-Two and Multi-Multi categories with my station.
I had the station set up for SO2R for a while with a ZS4TX Super Combo Keyer II and this worked very well but I found that SO2R did not appeal to me.
The amplifiers are an Emtron DX-3 and an Emtron DX-2SP.
I have a FTV-1000 50MHz Transverter connected to the Yaesu Mark V but it is rarely used as my main interest is in HF.
It would be interesting to make the first ever 6M QSO to JA from TF though. I intend to build a Rhombic for 6M eventually.
I use TR Log in CW/SSB contests and WriteLog in RTTY and the master station log is DX4WIN. Since November 2006 the new CW/SSB contest software is WinTest .
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