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.

My DXCC status, according to HrdLog.

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.