shack

Pictures of any rig can be found on the Internet. These are just to add some interest and a general impression.

Mainstay is the Kenwood TS130s 100watt HF Rig
Amateur Bands only 80 - 10 meters. Receiver single conversion, modified "front end, RF gain control and AGC", speaker box to left contains Datong auto notch.

Standby Icom IC735 100 watt HF Rig
General coverage receive Ham Bands 160 - 10 meters, advanced design incorporates low noise mixer and front end techniques providing general coverage performance which is hard to beat, even against more "modern gear".

Ancient and ugly looking HF Linear Amplifier using Classic 813 tubes
Built by a well known amateur to professional standard using quality components and best practice, has never been found to either splatter or cause any aggro to neighbours. 19" rack mountable and steel cased the heavy duty aluminium chassis is a work or art. Classified as "table top" is still a "hernia job" to throw about and is a baby compared to my heavy duty amplifier, which I hasten to add is currently out of service. Two 813 tubes provide 400w PEP output 80 - 20 and 250w on 15, 200W on 10 meters.

A Field Strength meter is always a useful requirement in any radio transmitters shack, and this Promax TV alignment aid covers 87 - 856mHz is portable and provides sensitivity combined with accurate calibration of levels. Useful for reception of those AM/FM broadcast stations, including barometric pressure and weather conditions!

Aside from a compliment of the usual frequency counters, various multimeters, scope, RF power meters, dummy loads, an old friend has been the COM3 tester which covers 10mHz - 1gHz. Some very novel and innovative digital techniques were pioneered in this "made in the USA" test set, which employs customised processor chipsets and can generate and receive RF with a variety of modulation modes. The design (via unique digital techniques) ensures the self calibration of the whole unit referenced to a 4mHz source. The receiver is sensitive enough for on air testing of remote transmitter characteristics.

What's in the box? I'll try to take internal pics at some later date.