This Page just shows how much fun I am having.
Back in 2001 when we were building the house we lived in the motorhome and barn for 6 months. As Sandi and I are both pack rats, which is interesting as some of the residents of our area are kangaroo rats, we needed a 940sq foot barn to hold all the junk we could not get into our 1800sq foot house.
It even makes a great place for a kids BD party.
But about Ham Radio. The other day I got out some of my test equipment to play.
Next photo I will identify everything
Left to right. A Marconi RF generator. My Motorola Communications
Test Set. A nifty Sencore 60Mhz dual trace
scope I stole for $60.00 at a swap meet with an OK Tools audio generator on top. My friend Alan designed the
audio generator. The Barn Radio Station. Top shelf RCS 800 and scanner. Bottom 2ea GE MVS, VHF tranceivers.
One for public service and one for Ham. Have room below for a future Kenwood 430 HF tranceiver. And a PC naturally.
On the floor 200Ah of gel cells to run the radios.
The Barn Antenna Farm
Mounted on theses surplus fiberglass poles you find at every swapmeet.
Top is a 2M, 5/8 mobile on one of those SMA
mounts with ground radials. Below on an old rack laying around the barn with mag mounts for the public service
VHF and
800. Finally a 800 yagi, $10.00 at the Williams Hamfest, to get signal for Cellular and 3G internet.
I live for emergency communications!
The "umbrella stand" mount staked to the ground with rebar.