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    NQ4T's Station

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    Right now this page only contains information about the current station. In the future, it will talk about my past setups. 73

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    You can skip to any of the following sections you’d like:

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    My station is not much:

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    Current HF Rig: Yaesu FT-1000MP

    My main HF rig is a Yaesu FT-1000MP Mark-V with a MFJ-974HB Balanced Tuner. I built both a digital interface to the DVS-2 port as well as a TinyFSK keyer for FSK.

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    My antenna is a 72’ (21.9m) long center-fed doublet. It’s about 50’ (15.24m) up in the air supported by trees. The feedline held mostly vertical from the feed-point about +

    My antenna is a 72’ (21.9m) long center-fed doublet. It’s about 50’ (15.24m) up in the air supported by trees. The feed-line held mostly vertical from the feed-point about 6’ (1.8m) from the ground using a line attached to the house. I originally built this doublet in 2018, and it stayed up until 2022 when the line hung up during a wind-storm -and it tore the loop at the end. The feedline has had a few patches and pieces spliced in to it; but it’s window-line so it doesn’t affect performance. One leg had a +and it tore the loop at the end. The feed-line has had a few patches and pieces spliced in to it; but it’s window-line so it doesn’t affect performance. One leg had a cut/tear in the insulation close to the feed-point, so I did some pre-emptive work to prevent this from getting worse. It really shows up in the night shot as a blurry white spot.

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    Previous HF Rigs

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    iCom IC-725

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    My first HF rig was an iCom 725 I picked up at the Berryville Hamfest in 2015. I’d only been licensed for about 4 months and hadn’t expected to get an HF rig that quickly. I had +a small budget from a surprise influx of cash the night before and had been making rounds looking at boat anchors. A friend found this radio on the floor from a vendor that was +selling surplus radio equipment; the type of setup where it looked like a truck just dumped random gear everywhere. I made the usual mistake of buying an untested radio; but my +friend told me the old iCom’s were pretty tough. It came with the PS-55 power supply but no mic. I talked the guy down to an agreeable price because of these two factors. Despite +looking like it came right out of a barn, the radio fired up when I got it home. I bought an 8-pin mic plug, a random microphone from a $1 bin, and spent my last $20 on a MFJ-16010 +long-wire tuner. I made contacts that night. While I may not have kept the power-supply, I kept the radio. Not only because it was my first; but because it’s a tank.

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    iCom IC-756

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    + +

    A year after getting the IC-725 I picked this up at the Berryville Hamfest. It was actually tested and working at the hamfest; and when I was the first to throw my money down there +was both sighs of disappointment and slight applause from the small crowd of OM that’d gathered. But, don’t get too excited. What started off as a few bad lines turned in to a fully +dead display in about a week. It came with a replacement; but after some work I wound up blowing it up. Thanks iCom for numbering your connectors backwards.

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    iCom IC-728

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    I wound up trading my half-dead 756 for this 728. Was it a good trade? Probably not. But at the time, I was defeated and didn’t care. The 728 didn’t suffer from the filtering +issues the 725 did; plus it had a speech processor, something the 725 lacked. Don’t get too excited. A few months later the RX lost all sensitivity. I sold it for parts at a +hamfest and managed to recover $75, putting me in the hole for $425 between it and the 756.

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    iCom IC-7300

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    In keeping with the trend of acquiring iCom rigs; I bought this brand new from HRO in August of 2018. I’d wanted one since they came out, so I drove down to HRO that day and +bought it. Fantastic rig. I owned it all of 10 months before a serious accident forced me to sell it. I still miss this radio for many reasons. In fact the one picture is the +one I used for the emergency sale since I hadn’t owned it long enough to take many.

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    iCom IC-7100

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    In mid-2020 I picked up this IC-7100 from a friend on IRC. I’d put my 725 back on the air a couple of months earlier after, but was quickly reminded at how annoying that thing +was with it’s barn-door-wide filtering. I quickly fell in love with it. Almost as good as the 7300 RX wise with the advantage of the remote head and 2m/70cm. I didn’t use those +much due to the inability to keep a VHF antenna up in the trees; but I had a hotspot, so it served as a D-Star radio for that. I did an RF tap for my SDRPlay for a nice big +waterfall. I sold it in the summer of 2022 after yet another situation forced me to sell the shack.

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    The QRO Station I Never Got To Use

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    I don’t even want to talk about this. I made my first trip to Hamvention in 2022 for the sole purpose of buying the SB-201 and tuner off a friend for a ridiculously good price. The +amp was in fully working condition and had all the major mods done by someone who knew what they were doing. I never even got this on the air. By the time I got the rest of the +parts to let my antenna setup do kW; that situation arose and it went out the door. I was so heart-broken after everything that I had zero intentions of getting back on the air +until the current rig was bestowed upon me. On the flipside; the shelf I had to add to the station location to accommodate that beast wound up being needed to hold the Yaesu. +

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    Current VHF/UHF Radios

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    Yaesu FT2D

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    +For Christmas 2016 I bought myself a little gift, a Yaesu FT2D. The club had recently taken the deal on the System Fusion repeater, so I figured I might as well get over the pain +of paying over $300 for an HT. I bought it along with a Mirage BD-35 amp; my reasoning being it would allow me to use the HT as a mobile radio with the option of plugging up a +different mobile radio in the future. Though I was very unimpressed with System Fusion and WIRES-X as a whole, it’s been a damn good radio. It’s been dropped and beaten to hell, +but it fires up every time I need it to (provided it’s charged). +

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    DMR HTs

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      TYT MD-380

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      This one was on “extended loan” from a guy as no one else had a use for it, he wanted me to give a presentation on MMDVM hotspots, and the only mode I didn’t have a radio for at +the time was DMR. It’s an OK radio, I guess. I don’t really use it much these days, it’s more of a backup. I do have the battery eliminator for it, which I used for mobile use with +the hotspot.

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      Radioddity GD-73

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      I was looking for a hotspot radio, and I bought a hotspot radio. The one thing I like about it is the use of standard USB for charging and programming.

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      Cotre CO01D

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      This, at the time, was a $16 DMR radio. No display, one zone, few buttons…but it was $16. How bad could a $16 DMR radio be? I bought it to find out. I was surprised to find other +than the horrible interface, it too made a decent hotspot radio; and it actually does Tier2. I still have it, but have completely misplaced it and haven’t seen it in quite some +time. It’ll turn up one day.

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    Previous VHF/UHF Radios

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    Kenwood TR-7850

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    +A friend from an audio site gave me a Kenwood TR-7850 2m monobander after hearing I’d gotten my license. It belonged to his father and was just sitting around. He included another +2m rig; an even older Kenwood monobander. It’s….somewhere around here in storage. I only briefly used the rig because of the 2m antenna issue I mentioned. I’m pretty sure I still +have it…again…in storage. After 8 years it’s hard to tell where it’s gone. +

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    Kenwood TH-D74

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    +Yes, I bought one of the D74s. I bought it the same day I bought my 7300 at HRO. Nice little radio. It saw very little use and sold it after selling the rest of the shack. One of +the nice things about it was it’s general coverage receive would actually do sideband modes; and it actually had a ferrite bar antenna for AM BCB. Mine did suffer that issue where +the internal charge controller died; so the power jack on the radio was 100% useless. But it was my first D-Star radio, the one I first used with a hotspot, I used it for a couple +of foxhunts, and it did send an APRS packet through the ISS. +



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    Baofeng GT3-TP

    +

    +Look…I was a new ham and broke. I bought one of these and made use of it; but it was a pretty lousy radio overall. Tons of front-end overload issues. It’s final resting place +is a field in California. That being said, I did make a magmount for it and beaconed a lot of APRS with it while I did own it. I think I even did an event or two. The few comments +I got on repeaters were complmenting me for having “good deviation” as most of them shipped FMN by default. I later stole the crystal out of it’s programming cable to fix the dongle +for my HF digital interface.

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    Right now this page only contains information about the current station. In the future, it will talk about my past setups. 73

    - -My station is not much: + +## Current HF Rig: Yaesu FT-1000MP My main HF rig is a Yaesu FT-1000MP Mark-V with a MFJ-974HB Balanced Tuner. I built both a digital interface to the DVS-2 port as well as a TinyFSK keyer for FSK. -
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    -My antenna is a 72' (21.9m) long center-fed doublet. It's about 50' (15.24m) up in the air supported by trees. The feedline held mostly vertical from the feed-point about +My antenna is a 72' (21.9m) long center-fed doublet. It's about 50' (15.24m) up in the air supported by trees. The feed-line held mostly vertical from the feed-point about 6' (1.8m) from the ground using a line attached to the house. I originally built this doublet in 2018, and it stayed up until 2022 when the line hung up during a wind-storm -and it tore the loop at the end. The feedline has had a few patches and pieces spliced in to it; but it's window-line so it doesn't affect performance. One leg had a +and it tore the loop at the end. The feed-line has had a few patches and pieces spliced in to it; but it's window-line so it doesn't affect performance. One leg had a cut/tear in the insulation close to the feed-point, so I did some pre-emptive work to prevent this from getting worse. It really shows up in the night shot as a blurry white spot. + + +## Previous HF Rigs + +### iCom IC-725 +
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    + +My first HF rig was an iCom 725 I picked up at the Berryville Hamfest in 2015. I'd only been licensed for about 4 months and hadn't expected to get an HF rig that quickly. I had +a small budget from a surprise influx of cash the night before and had been making rounds looking at boat anchors. A friend found this radio on the floor from a vendor that was +selling surplus radio equipment; the type of setup where it looked like a truck just dumped random gear everywhere. I made the usual mistake of buying an untested radio; but my +friend told me the old iCom's were pretty tough. It came with the PS-55 power supply but no mic. I talked the guy down to an agreeable price because of these two factors. Despite +looking like it came right out of a barn, the radio fired up when I got it home. I bought an 8-pin mic plug, a random microphone from a $1 bin, and spent my last $20 on a MFJ-16010 +long-wire tuner. I made contacts that night. While I may not have kept the power-supply, I kept the radio. Not only because it was my first; but because it's a tank. + +### iCom IC-756 + + + +A year after getting the IC-725 I picked this up at the Berryville Hamfest. It was actually tested and working at the hamfest; and when I was the first to throw my money down there +was both sighs of disappointment and slight applause from the small crowd of OM that'd gathered. But, don't get too excited. What started off as a few bad lines turned in to a fully +dead display in about a week. It came with a replacement; but after some work I wound up blowing it up. Thanks iCom for numbering your connectors backwards. + +### iCom IC-728 + + + +I wound up trading my half-dead 756 for this 728. Was it a good trade? Probably not. But at the time, I was defeated and didn't care. The 728 didn't suffer from the filtering +issues the 725 did; plus it had a speech processor, something the 725 lacked. Don't get too excited. A few months later the RX lost all sensitivity. I sold it for parts at a +hamfest and managed to recover $75, putting me in the hole for $425 between it and the 756. + +### iCom IC-7300 + +
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    + +In keeping with the trend of acquiring iCom rigs; I bought this brand new from HRO in August of 2018. I'd wanted one since they came out, so I drove down to HRO that day and +bought it. Fantastic rig. I owned it all of 10 months before a serious accident forced me to sell it. I still miss this radio for many reasons. In fact the one picture is the +one I used for the emergency sale since I hadn't owned it long enough to take many. + +### iCom IC-7100 + +
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    + +In mid-2020 I picked up this IC-7100 from a friend on IRC. I'd put my 725 back on the air a couple of months earlier after, but was quickly reminded at how annoying that thing +was with it's barn-door-wide filtering. I quickly fell in love with it. Almost as good as the 7300 RX wise with the advantage of the remote head and 2m/70cm. I didn't use those +much due to the inability to keep a VHF antenna up in the trees; but I had a hotspot, so it served as a D-Star radio for that. I did an RF tap for my SDRPlay for a nice big +waterfall. I sold it in the summer of 2022 after yet another situation forced me to sell the shack. + +### The QRO Station I Never Got To Use + + + +I don't even want to talk about this. I made my first trip to Hamvention in 2022 for the sole purpose of buying the SB-201 and tuner off a friend for a ridiculously good price. The +amp was in fully working condition and had all the major mods done by someone who knew what they were doing. I never even got this on the air. By the time I got the rest of the +parts to let my antenna setup do kW; that situation arose and it went out the door. I was so heart-broken after everything that I had zero intentions of getting back on the air +until the current rig was bestowed upon me. On the flipside; the shelf I had to add to the station location to accommodate that beast wound up being needed to hold the Yaesu. +

    + +## Current VHF/UHF Radios + +### Yaesu FT2D + + +For Christmas 2016 I bought myself a little gift, a Yaesu FT2D. The club had recently taken the deal on the System Fusion repeater, so I figured I might as well get over the pain +of paying over $300 for an HT. I bought it along with a Mirage BD-35 amp; my reasoning being it would allow me to use the HT as a mobile radio with the option of plugging up a +different mobile radio in the future. Though I was very unimpressed with System Fusion and WIRES-X as a whole, it's been a damn good radio. It's been dropped and beaten to hell, +but it fires up every time I need it to (provided it's charged). +
    +### DMR HTs + + +- #### TYT MD-380 + + This one was on "extended loan" from a guy as no one else had a use for it, he wanted me to give a presentation on MMDVM hotspots, and the only mode I didn't have a radio for at +the time was DMR. It's an OK radio, I guess. I don't really use it much these days, it's more of a backup. I do have the battery eliminator for it, which I used for mobile use with +the hotspot. + +- #### Radioddity GD-73 + + I was looking for a hotspot radio, and I bought a hotspot radio. The one thing I like about it is the use of standard USB for charging and programming. + +- #### Cotre CO01D + + This, at the time, was a $16 DMR radio. No display, one zone, few buttons...but it was $16. How bad could a $16 DMR radio be? I bought it to find out. I was surprised to find other +than the horrible interface, it too made a decent hotspot radio; and it actually does Tier2. I still have it, but have completely misplaced it and haven't seen it in quite some +time. It'll turn up one day. + + +### Previous VHF/UHF Radios + +#### Kenwood TR-7850 + + +A friend from an audio site gave me a Kenwood TR-7850 2m monobander after hearing I'd gotten my license. It belonged to his father and was just sitting around. He included another +2m rig; an even older Kenwood monobander. It's....somewhere around here in storage. I only briefly used the rig because of the 2m antenna issue I mentioned. I'm pretty sure I still +have it...again...in storage. After 8 years it's hard to tell where it's gone. +
    +#### Kenwood TH-D74 + +Yes, I bought one of the D74s. I bought it the same day I bought my 7300 at HRO. Nice little radio. It saw very little use and sold it after selling the rest of the shack. One of +the nice things about it was it's general coverage receive would actually do sideband modes; and it actually had a ferrite bar antenna for AM BCB. Mine did suffer that issue where +the internal charge controller died; so the power jack on the radio was 100% useless. But it was my first D-Star radio, the one I first used with a hotspot, I used it for a couple +of foxhunts, and it did send an APRS packet through the ISS. +



    +#### Baofeng GT3-TP + +Look...I was a new ham and broke. I bought one of these and made use of it; but it was a pretty lousy radio overall. Tons of front-end overload issues. It's final resting place +is a field in California. That being said, I did make a magmount for it and beaconed a lot of APRS with it while I did own it. I think I even did an event or two. The few comments +I got on repeaters were complmenting me for having "good deviation" as most of them shipped FMN by default. I later stole the crystal out of it's programming cable to fix the dongle +for my HF digital interface. +