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Version vom 20. August 2013, 17:27 Uhr

1 Location

• Richard Strauss Str. 2, 93133 Burglengenfeld
• IARU Locator JN69AF
• Position: 49° 12,6' N // 012° 03,2' E

2 Radio Equipment

2.1 Short Wave

There's some wisdom saying that you need a good receiver first of all. The next thing you should think about is a good antenna. I have been experimenting with several antenna types, mainly with the simpler versions of Inverted Vee and Quad Loop, but I have come to the insight that a good multiband vertical is a decent compromise between space consumption and multiband usability. That's why I have purchased a GAP TITAN. The next thing to consider is a sufficiently good transmitter. I solved the transmitter / receiver question first by buying a sturdy Kenwood TS-520S valve TRX. A very good decision, I must say now 15 years later. Around 2001 I bought a second hand TS-930SAT, and this is now my core device.

Here's an overview of my nice little shortwave toys:

• Kenwood TS-930SAT
• MosFET-PA
• Kenwood TS-450SAT and the power supply Kenwood PS-33
• Kenwood SM-220
• Kenwood SW-200 with
  • Kenwood SWC-1 Coupler,
  • Kenwood SWC-2 Coupler and
  • Kenwood SWC-4 Coupler
• Kenwood LF-30A
• Kenwood TL-922 (not yet)
• MFJ-1026 Signal Enhancer
• Kenwood TS-520S
• Kenwood MC-85
• ETM-9C
• Junker Morse Key
• RigBlaster Plus
• BX-120 USB-Transceiverinterface mit integrierter Soundkarte, Komplettbausatz
• MX20-2 - Another transceiver interface to drive an Echolink project
• USPR-2 - SDR TRX
• YAESU FT-767GX
• Homebrew PA 2x GU74B

2.2 VHF

• Kenwood TS-790A and the power supply Kenwood PS-30
• Kenwood TR-7625
• Standard C-408
• Diamond MX3000N Triplexer 2/70/23
• T7F, PLL based data transceiver
• KS-900, crystal based data transceiver for 9,6 kBit/s
• K-NET, crystal-based data transceiver for 9,6 kBit/s
• KF-166, crystal-based data transceiver for APRS
• KF-166, another one, for Echolink experiments - will be sold soon.

2.3 Digi modes

• TNC2S, terminal node controller for 1,2 kBit/s
• TNC2H, terminal node controller for 9,6 kBit/s
• TNC2Multi, terminal node controller for 1k2 and 9k6
• SCS PTC2, a PACTOR modem

2.4 Antennas

As a member of DARC e.V. I enjoy full insurance of all antennas:

• GAP TITAN
• Diamond X-6000
• Diamond X-30
• MBVV-2000-VOX - mast preamplifier

3 Naval Radio

As a vacational sailor and holder of two naval radio degrees (SRC-equivalent, LRC), I own and operate these devices:

• ICOM M9
• ICOM M11

4 Computer Science Equipment

4.1 Embedded devices

Hardware:

• Cisco Linksys WRTSL54GS
• ASUS WL-500GP
• Fonera Router
• D-Link DNS-323

Software:

• OpenWRT

4.2 Network connection

• modern DSL connection
• FritzBox as a central router
• standard 100 MBit backbone

4.3 Core Workstation BMH2

• Productive System
• 1.4 GHz Athlon
• 1 Gb RAM
• Ubuntu 7.10 programming environment

4.4 Development System BMH3

• Quad-CPU Compaq Professional Workstation 8000
• 4x PPro200
• 1 Gb RAM
• Good for multi-threading software development

4.5 Development System BMH4 - BMH7

• A very heavy rack-mounted cluster of 4 identical Linux machines
• 4x P2-350
• 4x 384 Mb RAM
• Good for fail-over and high-availability experiments

4.6 APC SmartUPS-3000VA

• Electrical BackUp for availability and failover experiments