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My station is located in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts.  Feeding Hills is a section of the Town of Agawam, which is a suburb of Springfield, Massachusetts (home of the Basketball Hall of Fame).  The section of town I am in slopes down gently towards the Connecticut River and Europe.

The station is designed for DX contesting in the single operator, SO2R, and multi/single categories.  Antennas are mostly fixed in two directions: northeast (EU) and south.  Currently, one tribander can be rotated to catch VE or for domestic contests.  I do not have much interest in VHF; there is a 13ele 2m beam and a 2m vertical (for my cluster node).  All HF antennas are shared between two TS-440's.  The amplifiers are an Ameritron AL-811 and a massive 4-811A.

The antenna system is undergoing an overhaul.  More information on antennas once I finish the projects...

I also have a station in Steamboat Springs, Colorado (where I spend half my time).  It is nowhere near as developed, but if you hear me giving out Q's from CO, that's probably where I am.

  Left radio Right radio
Radio TS-440SAT TS-440S
Amplifier AL-811A 4-811A
Filters Dunestar, band reject stubs Dunestar, band reject stubs
Logging N1MM Logger N1MM Logger
SO2R device

Homebrew

Switching

W1IM system

 

Station Photos:

Click the thumbnails for [much] larger versions.  More coming soon.

Right radio

Antenna switches and band decoder controllers.

Left radio

Another homebrew RX selecter and 15m "triplet" phase box.

Wireless

It takes a lot of wires to run a wireless station.

Coax Entry

Feedlines and lots of other random wires.

More coax

Some antennas are routed around the main switching system (RX, VHF, spotting, etc.).

Behind amps

Lots of control lines and coax behind the amplifier row.

Low band tuners

Some low band antennas have their own individual tuners.

SO2R

The setup for SO2R before IARU 2008.

Spare parts

A tower waits to go up...

Tower staging

A tower is staged in summer 2009. A sign of things to come in the background...