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Click for more detail... The shack is located in the basement and I’m in the process of doing a complete remodel of the entire basement --- you just can’t see all the construction going on.
Going from left to right across the top row of equipment:
Radio Shack DX 398 portable full coverage receiver; Radio Shack medium wave AM passive loop; Radio Shack DX 396 portable full coverage receiver I use for medium wave AM DXing; Bearcat Uniden BC 855 XLT scanner; Radio Shack Pro 50 handheld scanner; not shown is a Bearcat Uniden BC 780 XLT Trunk Tracker scanner and a 4 foot box loop for medium wave DXing.
Going from left to right across the bottom row of equipment:
The “black box” is a “home brew” 20 through 10 meter legal limit amplifier I’m building; MFJ 989D tuner; Icom 718 transceiver; Heil ICM microphone (I use a foot pedal to key up); Icom R75 full coverage receiver; MFJ 941 B tuner; Kenwood TM 241A - 2 meter rig; Astron power supply (I have 3 but this is the only one you can see).
What you don’t see are the antennas! I have 6 different ones that are all currently being used. Number 7 is built but waiting for me to have time to put up!
1. Scantenna – scanner antenna covers 30 MHz to 1.3 gigahertz. 2. Log Periodic Beam – covers 30 MHz to 1.3 gigahertz. 3. Home brew J Pole at 40 feet for 2 meter/440. 4. JoGunn Pistol ¼ wave vertical for 10 & 11 meters. 5. Home brew Mystery Antenna – 160 through 10 meters. 6. Home brew 24 foot coaxial shielded Faraday receive only loop. 7. Home brew ¼ wave inverted L cut for use on 160 meters
On HF, the only antenna I transmit on is the Mystery Antenna (until I get the inverted L up). This antenna is configured as an inverted V, with the apex at 40 feet and the tails at 10 feet – East/West orientation. I connect the Faraday loop to my R75 and this is the antenna I listen to everyone on – 6 foot off the ground! Even though the Mystery antenna is a very quiet antenna (signal/noise) the Faraday loop is even better!
Most of the receivers, scanners and antennas were acquired or built over 25+ years as a SWL! When I got my license I purchased the two tranceivers and the MFJ 989D. The only other equipment I'd like to add to my shack is an AL-811H, 706MK2G for backup and mobile operation, 500 watt solid state mobile amplifier, a High Sierra screwdriver, for HF mobile operation and a Cushcraft MA5B beam.
73 -- catch you on the bands somewhere!
KevO
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