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This is my shack at home.

 

 

When I'm home during my vacations, I mainly use the beautiful FT 101 ZD perfectly working

I also have two other old jewels in perfect conditions; a VHF Yaesu FT-225 RD and a receiver Yaesu FRG 7700.

I like these old style radios

 

My vertical antennas: HF " Diamond CP6 " and the V-UHF " Discone ", both mounted on the balcony.

 

 

 

Unfortunately, I don't have so much space for antennas but everything is working fine and I'm happy with that.

 

I'm a yacht's captain, and my radio station is installed on board of a large yacht.

Currently I'm operating from the south / west Turkish coasts with the call TA/IZ5KID, transmitting from the port of Turgutreis.

And when we go at sea I'm using the call IZ5KID/MM

 

 

I made some modifications to easily switch and use the yacht's marine band SSB antenna, with the approval of my Boss ;-)

This antenna is a " Comrod " 7 mts long vertical, mounted on the port side of the yacht 

For the best performaces I also installed on the feeding line of the antenna a 4:1 Balun with a very short counterpoise.

To tune the antenna I use a small MFJ 16010 and I check the reflected power with the built-in SWR meter of the Yaesu FT857