Becoming an Amateur Radio Operator has been a dream since my teen years but there was always something more pressing that got in the way. Well as of the November of 2017 I have achieved this dream and am proud to say I am a Ham Radio Operator.
My current class of license is “General” and my call is WA4EMN which is a vanity call.
My Station
- Icom IC-7610 HF/6M Base Radio
- w/ M100 Tarheel Antenna & TM1 Control System
- Icom IC-9700 2m/70cm/23cm D*Star Base Radio
- Yaesu FTM-400XDR 2m/70cm C4FM Fusion
- Icom ID-5100A 2m/70cm D*Star Mobile
- Kenwood TM-D710G VHF/UHF Mobile (APRS & EchoLink)
- SCS P4dragon DR-7800 Pactor I-IV Modem
- Motorola XTS5000 70cm P25 HT
- Motorola XTS2500 33cm P25 HT
- AnyTone AT-D878UV 2m/70cm DMR HT
- Kenwood TH-7 2m/70cm HT
- Zum-Spot personal digital Simplex WiresX & P25 repeater/hotspot
- Zum-Spot personal digital Duplex D*Star repeater/hotspot
- Uniden SD-200 Digital Scanner
- Uniden UBC785XLT Scanner
- 3 RTL-SDR Dongles (USB Software Defined Radios)
- 2 are used as an 800Mhz Trunking Scanner
- 1 is used for ADS-B 1090Mhz monitoring
- Icom IC-7610 HF/6M Base Radio
The Shack
Living an a HOA I (as so many other Hams) have had to get creative when it comes to antennas. Which I find a bit strange that there is no wiggle room in the regulations at all; yet there are 9 Hams in my living here my community in West Central Florida home of the hurricane and the community rely on us for emergency communications.
Anyway – The photos below show version one of my antenna farm in the attic over the garage.
Building the Antenna Farm – 25 sq/ft rabbit wire covering the rafters.
4×4 sheet steel as a ground plane for the HR Traheel screwdriver
