My station


Updated: September 2014

Brief update 13.9.2014: I got a new radio: Kenwood TS-590S. More info later.


I work mainly on HF. My main rig is a Kenwood TS-850S equipped with all possible filters, see this blog posting. Above the rig I have a touch-screen PC for DX Cluster news etc. For logging and digimode working I have a quite powerful table PC. Since I like to work on all modes, CW, SSB and digimodes, I can easily switch from mode to another, depending on what I find interesting, or on what DX Cluster announces. Also, I really like HF contesting.


The simple 2 meter rig (an old French Talco taxi radio) is for local QSOs with radio friends in Lohja (fq fixed on145.300MHz). 

I have a 10 000m^2  garden/forest for interesting wire antenna experiments. My current antennas are described in different blog postings. A couple of  pictures also here below:
80m inverted vertical delta loop. One of the corners shown up right in the picture.
Tunes on all bands with a tuner. Works really well on 80m and 30m.
Note: I am 30m up in a tree taking this picture.
My inverted vertical 80m loop. This corner is 30m up in a tree :)
The base of my 40m/15m copper pipe vertical, up 12m. Three radials.
The top of the 40m/15m copper pipe vertical.
20m inverted vertical delta loop, up about 20 meters. Good for 20m and 10m bands.
My 160m inverted-vee, up 20m. Installed 2013.

Used ham software in my shack (all but Win-Test are free):
  • Ham Radio Deluxe (HRD), for logging and digimodes
  • xDX, DX Cluster software for the touch screen linux PC. Installable as rpm package.
  • JT65-HF for WSJT/JT65 operation
  • ROS for a special new digimode, ROS.
  • N1MM Logger and Win-Test in SSB and CW contesting (HRD is better for digimode contesting)
  • WSPR for progagation testing
  • RFSM 2400 for emergy communication tests
  • BeaconMap for beacon checking
  • UltimateAAC for digimode award applications.
  • MorseCat, a simple tool for keeping my CW skills "warm". Sometimes used before CW contests :) 
  • Audacity, an excellent tool for sound recording and processing. Needed when optimizing stuff for contests and pileups
  • Eznec, for antenna modelling. The free version is enough for simple antennas.
  • Also LoTW demands installed software, check the instructions here.

8 comments:

  1. Great view from your "antenna tree". What a beautiful place you live in! Good DX and don't fall from that tree! :-)

    IZ4UFQ Fabio

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  2. Don't worry, I'm a careful climber :)

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  3. Very nice webpage..My congratulations from Spain EA5AEL.
    Very interesting WSPR job and others....same with me.
    73 GL GD DX.

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    1. Thank you Manuel! See you again on the bands!

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  4. Looks very good. Something about your part of Europe reminds me of my USA QTH in northern New York State. 73 F8WBD/N2UGB

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    1. Tnx Richard...we like the place, and just by pure luck it happens to be a good QTH also :)

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  6. New pictures and video: http://oh3ggq.blogspot.fi/2012/08/inspecting-my-80m-delta-loopup-30m-in.html

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