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Manuals
I've set up a page that has downloads of various manuals in Acrobat format. All of these are for equipment I have owned with lots on Yaesu...but other stuff is there too. Click Manuals.
Shack-N-Bag TM
Just added a new page with lots of photos showing my easy to "grab and go" portable station. Click Shack-N-Bag for details.
El Cheapo AZ-EL Rotor System for Satellites:
Details on how to assemble my under $50 approach for my AA5FR El Cheapo AZ-EL rotor system for working the LEO (low earth orbit) AMSAT birds. Click Cheapo.
ATAS-120a Antenna
I have gotten so many requests for info and photos on the ATAS antenna, I've created a separate page. Click ATAS to see!
New Band:
I have just made my first Six Meter contact in 40 years. Actually about 3 dozen as far away as Canada and Saint Louis. Since both of my rigs offer it and they are the first six meter enabled rigs I have had since high school, I decided to use the tuner and the same 80-10 Meter "AA5FR KindaSorta Dipole" and see what happens. Getting very good reports up and down the east coast with 40 watts and working just about anything I could hear.. Now considering a moxon to maybe pursue Six more seriously.
New Shack Additions
Just bought the Kenwood TH-F6A HT to add to my minimalist lineup where less is more. Great little radio in an incredibly small package. Just added the Diamond CR320A Tri-band Mobile Antenna to the car to run this as an easy mobile. Covers the same 144/220/440 as the TH-F6A HT and works MUCH better than the cheapie MFJ dual bander mag mount.
Also, just convinced the XYL that an HF mobile
mount is a good idea, especially for mountain topping (she is less convinced
about using it while driving)! That way, we can operate portable in the
comfort of the car with the top down on the convertible.
Just got the Comet CP-5 and the Yaesu ATAS-120A
auto tune antenna. Will also be using the ATAS for portable operation.
Update: Just added the Diamond K-400C Mount for the ATAS as I was finding
the Comet CP-5 not quite good enough. See new test results now that I have
installed the K-400. Will dedicate the CP-5 to the CR320A by clicking
ATAS.
I have gotten so many requests for info and photos on the ATAS antenna, I've
created a separate page. Click
ATAS to see!
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Welcome To My World
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Florida and Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Thanks to Google Earth, this
will show you both from space. Click on the thumbnail below for
the BIG picture of each!
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AA5FR - Clearwater Beach, Florida |
AA5FR / 4 - Gatlinburg, Tennessee |
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AA5FR - Clearwater Beach, Florida
AA5FR / 4 - Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Name:
Robert
QTH:
Clearwater Beach, Florida and Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Call is AA5FR/4 when portable in Tennessee.
Locator:
EL87NO - FL,
EM85HS - TN
IOTA - NA34 - FL.
Rigs:
Yaesu FT-897D, usually running only 20 watts. My main HF rig at my base station on Sand Key Island.
Yaesu FT-857D. This is my mobile rig working with the ATAS-120. Amazing result with the two - my first three contacts sitting in my Florida parking lot: Northern Ireland, Slovakia and Ukraine.
I also use the FT-857D as the main component of my "grab and go" "Shack-N-Bag" for easy portable operations.
Typically using a SignalLink USB for all the digital stuff - especially PSK-31. Timewave ANC-4 for noise control. Both are amazing devices worth their weight in DXCC certificates.
Auto antenna tuners: The battery-powered LDG Z-11 Pro for the often portable FT-857D and a LDG AT-200 Pro for the usually stay-at-home FT-897D.
Antennae:
Above auto tuners with "KindaSorta" HF dipoles at 110 feet (35 meters)
Arrow II dual band VHF/UHF satellite yagi. Also use two Advanced Receiver preamps: SP432VDG for 435 MHz and SP144VDG for 144 MHz - both of which greatly improve the reception for most satellite passes and compensate for the low gain of the Arrow II and the LMR-195 feedline loss.
Arrow J-Pole for 144/440.
Yaesu ATAS-120a for mobile and portable operations - which does a surprisingly amazing job for both. Best DX so far: Mobile from the top of the Smokies to VP8, Falkland Islands - with 10 watts - even at the bottom of this sunspot cycle. I have gotten so many requests for info and photos on the ATAS antenna, I've created a separate page. Click ATAS to see!
Interests:
Everything! including my wife (absolutely my #1 favorite way to spend my time), digital photography, Photoshop, mountain hiking, sailing, biking, scuba diving, computers, writing, helping start up companies really get started and, of course, ham radio!
Previous Calls:
WN4LEJ - Novice
WA4YFH - General
KD5SB - Advanced
AA5FR - Extra
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