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This picture is of my half size G5RV hung between the house roof ridge and a twenty foot pole at the bottom of the garden.
This has now been replaced with a Radio Works carolina windom 620 which has given me better performance on 20m 15m 10m but sadly I have lost 40m which I miss because I liked working the special event stations which regularly appeared on this band.
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This small piece of equipment built and supplied by G3LIV is a Digital mode interface. Using this along with MixW software I have worked over 1000 stations from as far away as China and Argentina in a twelve month period.
If and when we get some propagation you can easily work the world with very little power. I have regularly worked into the far side of Asiatic Russia running 4 watts.
FT-817 the world’s first HF/VHF/UHF self-contained battery-powered Multi-mode Portable Transceiver. Providing up to five watts of power output, the FT-817 is designed for operation on the 160-10 meter HF bands, plus the 6 meter, 2 meter, and 70 cm bands. SSB, CW, AM, FM, Packet, or SSB-based Digital modes like PSK31,The introduction of the FT-817ND, which includes coverage of the U.S. 60-meter (5 MHz) band, and it also includes a 1400 mAh NiMH Battery pack (FNB-85) and NC-72B Charger!
The FT-897D is a rugged, innovative, multiband, multimode portable transceiver for the amateur radio MF/HF/VHF/UHF bands. Providing coverage of the 160-10 meter bands plus the 6 m, 2 m, and 70 cm bands, the FT-897 includes operation on the SSB, CW, AM, FM, and Digital modes, and it's capable of 20-Watt portable operation using internal batteries, or up to 100 Watts when using an external 13.8-volt DC power source.
The new FT-897D version includes coverage of the U.S. 60-meter (5 MHz) band, along with the 0.5 ppm TCXO Unit.
Here we go again could not resist this one Hi.
Mizuho Coupler AT-2000 QRP Tuner in absolutely mint condition. I have been chasing one of these for a while and finished up buying one from Germany. Superb build quality designed specifically for working QRP at 5 watts.
