Here are the atennas pointing southwest just after sunrise.
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Later the same day, but this time pointing to the south east. Part of the 55' HF tower is shown in the foreground of the left picture. ![]()
A close up of the S-band dish and downconverter. The pipe on the back of it is a counterbalance. With that length of pipe, the entire antenna assembly of all 3 antennas is almost perfectly balanced in the rotor. The right picture is a view of the antennas looking south east.
The transceiver equipment is shown on my main hamshack/QTH page. It consists of a Yaesu FT-847 for 2m and 432 MHz. On 2m, I have a Mirage 160 W brick amplifier and on 432, I have an RF Concepts 100 W brick amplifier (which has come in very useful on AO-10!). The IF rig for 2.4 GHz (S band) is a Yaesu FT-817. This allows me to not have to worry about disconnecting and reconnecting my 2 Meter antennas and helps alleviate the accidental transmission into the S-band downconverter. The azimuth rotator is a Ham-M and the elevation rotor is a Yaesu G-500A. I also have a set of tower mounted preamplifiers and a home brew tower mounted relay box for them, but that will be installed in the spring.
The temperature was about 3 degrees F when I took these pictures!