1. I am selling all
of my ham radio equipment. (I will also donate my 40 or so ham-related
books, many concerning antennas, to a club with a lending library.) I
have not operated from home since 2015, when we had a new deck built,
which removed the wooden supports to which I had strapped metal and PVC
pipes to support low dipoles and a Cushcraft R7000 multi-band vertical.
Here is a description of what I have. (I note that the small electronic
accessories often need a wall wart. I have a box of those in the
basement, which I will look through if you want to buy a particular
item, although most hams will already have enough power adapters that
they will have something that will work.)
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Kenwood TS-850S-AT transceiver, with
built-in antenna tuner, as well as a handheld microphone (plus a 90°
PVC elbow that I put on top of the unit to re-direct sound forward from
the built-in loudspeaker that fires upward from the top of the unit). I
bought this, reconditioned, in the early 2000s from Burghardt Amateur
Supply. (In 2009 they turned exclusively to radio repair.) I believe I
paid about $1,300 for it. (In October 1996 the list price for a new unit
was $2,199.95.) I have a complete service manual with schematics, bought
at a hamfest, as well as an operating manual.
I really enjoyed this radio, including the Dual
Passband Tuning, which lets you narrow the passband for the received
signal from both above and below. As a 2017 review on eBay put it:
The Kenwood TS-850 S is
in my opinion one of the finest ever produced by Kenwood. The receiver
is one of the most sensitive out there and great for pulling weak signal
contact out of a pileup. The slope tuning ability to pull in slightly
off frequency signals is near unbeatable. This is one of the last radios
that had a knob or a button for each function...Unlike later model
radios that have electronic multiple menus that you have to jump
through, just to adjust things.
Astron RS-20M power supply, plus schematic
diagram. I used this for the Kenwood TS-850S-AT.
MFJ-949E Deluxe Versa Tuner II, plus instruction manual
MFJ-422C Electronic Iambic Keyer and Iambic
Paddle combination, plus instructions and schematic diagram
MFJ-432 Voice Memory Keyer, plus instruction
manual
MFJ-259 HF/VHF SWR Analyzer with RF
Resistance Meter, plus instruction manual
MFJ-66 Dip Meter Adapter for MFJ-259, plus
instruction manual (I have the manual for the adapter, so I know I had
the adapter, but to date I have not located it.)
Tigertronics SignalLink USB Integrated USB Sound
Card for digital modes, plus installation & operation instructions.
I never got around to using this.
Shure Model 444D Controlled Magnetic®
Fixed Station Microphone, plus data sheet and wiring guide
JPS ANC-4 Antenna Noise Canceller
MFJ-752-C Signal Enhancer, plus owner’s
manual and schematic diagram
AEA PAKRATT Model PK-232 MBX Universal Data Controller
MFJ-1910 Telescoping Fiberglass Mast
MFJ-918 1:1 Current Balun, 1.8-30 MHz
Unadilla W2AU Balun Model 4:1, with installation instructions
MFJ-704 Low Pass Filter (1.5 KW, 0-30 MHz,
52 ohms), plus instruction manual
Industrial Communications Engineers Model 420
Low Pass RF Filter, DC-30 MHz, 300W DC, DC passive 0.1-0.4 db
insertion loss, 50 ohms, non-polarized
Industrial Communications Engineers coaxial 300 Series lightning arrestors. These have a high-voltage RF feedthrough/DC blocking ceramic center capacitor, and both a gas discharge tube and a bleeder resistor to ground on the antenna side. I have one, on a plate for mounting on top of a ground rod (with metal paste), with two separate paths (with SO-239s on each side of each path) in one unit. I also have two separate single-path units mounted on one mounting plate for ground rod mounting. These are commercial quality. After
Mike
Koss (W9SU) died in 2011 at age 57 his brother Bob (W9ETA) kept the
product line running under the name Morgan Manufacturing. In 2018 Morgan
Manufacturing changed hands, and is now
Morgan Systems, at Surgestop.com. They manufacture the same
products as I.C.E. I also note that Array Solutions states that they
manufacture their lightning arrestors “[b]ased on the design by
Industrial Communications Engineers (ICE) 300 Series coaxial arrestors.”
The lightning arrestors by both Morgan Systems/SurgeStop and Array
Solutions look identical to the ones I have from I.C.E., which were
advertised as being able to be run over by a truck with no damage (which
I find believable).
B&W FL 10/100 TVI Filter
Ameco HP-300T TV/FM Interference Hi-Pass Filter,
300 ohms, 0-52 MHz
The DX Edge gray line
calculator
Slinky Dipole from Helitrix®,
plus assembly and operating instructions
Four new original Slinky coils (smaller than
the coils of the Helitrix® Slinky Dipole) to make a
half-size 80-meter dipole (or a half-size 40-meter dipole if you just
use two coils), plus an unused spray can of cold galvanizing compound
for the coils. (A dipole built with the small-diameter coils will work, since I previously built and
used an 80-meter dipole from four other Slinky coils. [I have never used
the Helitrix®
Slinky Dipole.] I tried to sand and scrape the coils, with the intent of
then painting them blue or gray
to blend with the sky, but it is impossible to paint all surfaces unless
you can dip the coils, and it is basically impossible to sand and scrape
the entire surface of all of the coils in the first place. The scraping
and sanding just led to them eventually rusting after being outside for
years. It may be that the new coils are already galvanized, in which
case the cold galvanizing compound spray would be necessary only where
you sanded the coils for attachment points, etc.)
Ten spreaders for a multi-band dipole (I
used these for an 80M Slinky dipole combined with wire dipoles for
40/15M, 20M and 10M. I strung the Slinky coils on Kevlar cord covered by
Dacron, while the whole system, on the spreaders, was supported by the
either the Kevlar cord or the 40M wire dipole.)
The DX Edge gray line calculator
Many clip-on and circular RF filters
Many connectors, including PL-259
Bare and insulated wire, coax, ladder line, cord
Mark, K2DL
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