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There is a download area toward bottom of the page with some freebe stuff.
DO YOU WANT TO BECOME A HAM RADIO OPERATOR?
<GO HERE>

This is an older picture but gives an overall view of shack, TS-520 nolonger in line.

Current view of radios online

 
                     Doing Ham Stuff                                                                And a little SSTV

For years I was a Chicken Bander  until it got so filthy mouthed I chucked
the radios.  Could not have that stuff blaring with kids in the house.  Became a Ham
in 1990 and haven't looked back sense.  Worked the World on 10 meters, I love it..
But the wife and I got out of Ham radio for a few years and we got back into it
in Dec of 2004,  I shortly upgrading to General Class the wife KB7LQT is still a
Tech +.

Shack includes following equipment; 1 ghz and  500 mhz desk top
computers. The computers have the following ham programs; 
Echo link, Ham Scope, AC Log (logging program), MMSSTV and
many others.  Laptop has all above and SSTV also.
Shack includes; Alinco DR 110 and DJ 160 HT
2 meter Radios.  HF radio is a Kenwood TS-130S primary 
and is also used when needed as a mobile.
Antenna tuner is a  MFJ-969.
As you can see all radios have external speakers.
Not seen is the Alinco HT or misc antenna analyzers and other
support equipment.  No Amp in this shack, just barefoot.

I enjoy making QSL Cards for myself and others
you can check some out  <HERE>

The Antenna Farm

---------------- Mobile HF setup ---------------

  
|---------------------- HF setup in 1984 Nissan Extended Cab 4X4 -------------------|

I sold the TS 120S shown here to a good friend, but the TS 130S fits just as well.
Mounted in the dash is a Alinco DR-110 2meter radio running to a 5/8s wave base loaded
antenna..The HF antenna's are 10 thru 80 meter seperate Ham Stick antennas each tuned
for the middle of the phone portion of each band.  They have to be physically changed out on the
mount spring seen in the first picture.  The mount for the radio is 3/4 plywood
glued to jump seat behind passenger seat.  There is a metal flange that goes up
and over the radio with a combination lock that you can see in the second pix.  Over the radio
is old computer cabinet to protect radio if something is thrown it behind the passenger seat.

 
1979 Ford 2WD setup

Alinco DR110  2 meter and a Realistic HTX-100, 10 Meter SSB/CW rig.
Icom V8000 shown has been sold.. with Alinco Temporarily replacing it..

I use the Alinco DJ160 HT on the bike,
check out the junk box setup on link below.

Motorcycle Mobile Pix

++++++++++++++++++++++++++  Some Good Links  +++++++++++++++++++++++++

FCC Part 97

Maps to SSRA 146.800 repeater



 

QRZ callsign lookup:   Callsign lookups provided by qrz.com

QRZ	w5yi	DX Zone	Radio Mods
Free Manuals	MM Hamsoft  freeware	Listen to Ham Radio Live!	Online Tests
Online Swap Meet	wb6bcn.net   misc stuff	Origins of Ham terms	Wayback Machine History of Ham Radio
More fee Manuals	Calculators Frequency Harmonics, antenna, auto, science, math, etc	NOTN "Neal of the North" visit his ham page for his thoughts on Ham Radio	The Chipmunk Ranch Charlene Davis KC7RQF Nice gathering spot for NE Oregon Hams

Ham-Shack.com
All kinds of neat Ham related info here 

Download Section
Use these files at your own risk. For information Only
Files are in PDF format unless stated otherwise

Go to this site to get the  NEW  HF Band Plan
that includes the NEW CHANGES to HF privileges
effective sometime in Mid Dec 06.   In Color or B/W format.
http://www.yankeecruisah.com/w1cgs/hfband.html
by C.Gustave Sandberg W1CGS

Slow Scan TV  (SSTV) using sound card.
MMSSTV 111G.zip
This program will allow you to send and receive SSTV.
just click on screen shot below to down load.

2.5 MB approx
Check out the SSTV info page below

MMSSTV Help File (PDF file 383KB )

SSTV General Information Page

Here is a Great Site  by David - KB4YZ
covering alot of SSTV info with help
files covering many SSTV programs.

Koch Method CW Training Program by G4FON
                                                                                                430Kb Zip File

Ham Scope V1.51  covers BPSK, QPSK, CW, RTTY, MFSK16, PACKET
                                               This is a 700K zip file.

Digipan V2.0  covers BPSK31, BPSK63, QPSK31, FSK31, PACTOR RX
                                    This is a 650K zip file

FCC Frequency Allocation Chart

ARRL   Message form and Instructions

Radio Gram (Another Message form)

Amatuer Radio Band Plan Chart

United States Grid Map  about 1mb

NE Oregon Repeater Map (Not PDF but JPG Image - 792K )

Easy Build 2 meter 5 element Beam   (JPG - 200K)

Antenna Length Chart (from 1/4 wave to full wave for 2 thru 160 meters  for building
                                        dipoles and inverted Vs several freqs for each band. 
                                                   in JPG  format 590K approx.)
The Double Bazooka Antenna (120K JPG) Ever want to build one,
                                                                    here's the info you need..

Cheap J-Pole Antenna   ( 70K JPG) Portable 300 ohm twin lead with diminsions.
Mount J-Pole Permanently   here is a JPG with info on turning above antenna into a
                                                       a permanent base station antenna.

Build a cheap J-Pole   This is in an "Open Document Presentation" like a slide show
                                                that can be used to show how in detail to build this antenna
                                                in a group situation.  Like a ARES emergency antenna
                                                construction group to make several antennas at once.

Build a cheap J-Pole  This is in PDF format and is the same as ODP file above.

G5RV Multi Band Antenna  (PDF - 273K - Info and how to build)

QSL Card Maker   ( About  a  700 Kb ZIP file  )    ( A program to make
                                      your own QSL cards.  Why pay to have it done?  This
                                      is a very good program that lets you put a color bmp
                                      of your choice as a background with full control of
                                      all aspects of lettering etc. based on XY format.)

 

Sometimes people make Ham Radio
NOT FUN !

Copyright © 2005-2006 Steve Vermillion

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