My Lab Equipment
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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 / receover 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. Maybe some time in the future I will also think about a Kenwood TL-922, but if, yes if I should have enough spare time, I might also decide to build a transistor PA on my own. Let's see.
Here's an overview of my nice little shortwave toys:
- Kenwood TS-930SAT
- Kenwood SM-220
- Kenwood SW-200 with Kenwood SWC-1 Coupler
- Kenwood LF-30A
- Kenwood TL-922 (not yet)
- GAP TITAN
- MFJ-1026 Signal Enhancer
- Kenwood TS-520S - I gave it away as a gift to DARC U27 as a training device.
- Kenwood MC-85
- ETM-9C
- Junker Morse Key
2.2 VHF
- Kenwood TS-790A
- Standard C-408
- Diamond X-6000
- Diamond MX3000N Triplexer 2/70/23
- T7F (not operational)
3 Computer Science Equipment
3.1 Network connection
- modern DSL connection
- FritzBox as a central router
- standard 100 MBit backbone
3.2 Core Workstation BMH2
- Productive System
- 1.4 GHz Athlon
- 1 Gb RAM
- Ubuntu 7.10 programming environment
3.3 Development System BMH3
- Quad-CPU Compaq Professional Workstation 8000
- 4x PPro200
- 1 Gb RAM
- Good for multi-threading software development
3.4 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
3.5 APC SmartUPS-3000VA
- Electrical BackUp for availability and failover experiments