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K6AER MICHAEL S HIGGINS PO BOX 2744 ELIZABETH, CO 80107 USA Lookups:   58782 Ham Member
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This the new Alpha 8410 amplifier. On January15, 2009, the first two amplifiers have entered into Beta testing. Development unit number one is located at KW0AP club station at Alpha power. Development unit number two is located at my QTH for very…extensive testing. The amplifier uses a pair of stout 4CX1000A's in tetrode operation. The amplifier uses the same 3.5 KVA transformer as the Alpha 9500. Fifty watts drive produces over 1700 watts out. All operational parameters can also be monitored via hyper terminal. A new high volume low speed cooling fan makes this one of the quietest, full legal limit ++ amplifiers ever made.

Build quality, incredible craftsmanship, and 21 century engineering will make this amplifier a keeper. You can contact Molly at Alpha at 303 473-9232 to get one of these bad boys in your shack.

 

 

    

                                         The Ham Shack                                                                 My 180HP, 180 MPH Yamaha R1

 

Station is an M-Audio Nova microphone going through a balanced tube preamp into a Behringer DEQ2496 into the ICOM 756 Pro III or a TS-2000. High power is via an Alpha-8410 amplifier through the Alpha 4510 into the SteppIR 4 element at 105 feet or a Commander II or VHF 1200 to smooth wall ComScope 7/8 inch hardline feeds the high gain VHF antenna arrays. Antenna for 30-160 meters is a 256 foot center fed dipole at 100 feet and the SteppIR big vertical with a 40' by 60' metal barn for a ground plane. Bands of operation are 160 Meters through 450 MHz. Amplifier, antenna and repeater design are my principle focus. DX chasing is catch as catch can. I enjoy writing technical articles and provide Elmering on technical issues.

 

 

              

               This is the 146.670 KD0UDD repeater on Squaw mountain West of Denver at 12566 feet. This is a

                typical June service call.

 

Bio

Owner of Talon Engineering, RF technical engineering services. BSEE microwave engineering career of over 35 years. Part of my engineering duties is tower engineering, RF safety and RF subject matter expert. Over the last 30 years I have constructed over 130 towers. I am a Comtrain certified tower climbing instructor. Facility engineering in power, grounding and site construction are my other engineering duties.

Living in Elizabeth, CO. Married - living on a small ranch raising thoroughbred horses. Hobbies include flying, skiing, ham radio, three day eventing with the horses and riding my YZF R-1 Yamaha through the canyons (too fast). I own several repeaters in the Denver area and chair repeater technical committees. I was license in 1961.

I can be contacted at 303 246-3518 or at k6aer@arrl.net

 

Shown below are some interesting photos:

 

         

This was Visiala DX convention in 2006 when Mike Mertel and the rest of the SteppIR gang are putting up the Monster SteppIR beam on a US Towers 107 crank up tower. Specical event call was N6V. I am doing the high angle work at the top of the tower. The last five years I have assembled the special event station at Visiala.

 

 

                               

          My wife and I up in the Rockies on vacation.              We raise Lundehund dogs. The dogs are from Norway

                                                                                                  and are also called Puffin dogs. The are about 20 lbs.

                                                                                                  in size and are very rare.

 

                                 

    

 

                                  

                           This is my little second cousin Lindsey with her friend Russ. Lindsey is a Capitan in

                            the Air force and is a flight instructor on the C17 Cargo aircraft. Russ is a captain in

                            the Army. They came out to the hobby farm to get a little riding on a couple of my

                            horses, Apache and Jake.

 

                                                                

 

 

     Dog's name is Bandit, loves chasing anything thrown,             Molly and Gordon Hardman at Visialia showing off

     also barks when the band is open. Bandit is a typical              their new baby, the new Alpha 9500. I must say this

     smart Border Collie and is ready to take his no code               is the best design in a HFamplifier I have ever seen.               

     Geneal license.                                                                           At Dayton it put out 3200 watts CW into a dummy load,

                                                                                                           every day during the show, all day long, quite impressive.

                                                                                                           The form, fit and finish make it a shame to put a cover

                                                                                                            on the this amplifier.