[The last renewal of this page: June 14, 2011]
Band | Antenna | Major Purpose |
430MHz | 15mh 13 element Yagi Antenna X 2 (Creative Design Corp.) | Local QSO |
50MHz | 24mh 10 element Yagi Antenna (Homebrew /12 meter boom / Designed and optimized by Y.O.) | All-round Purpose |
14MHz | 22mh 5 element Yagi Antenna (Homebrew /12 meter boom / Designed and optimized by Y.O.) | DX QSO |
3.5MHz | 15mh Rotary Dipole (Homebrew / 16.6 meter element + ICOM's ATU AH-4) | Domestic QSO |
Upper shelf | Left side | "Fighters" in my youth | My old radios which used to let me get crazy in enjoying rag-chews with Ws everyday in my youth: YAESU FT-401D, TRIO TS-520D, and one worked well in mobile, YAESU FT-7and ICOM IC-721. |
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Right side | Modern Radios | TS-790 for local contacts, and AZDEN PCS-7800H for DX on 29MHz FM. |
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Measuring instruments | Iwatsu Syncro scope SS-5710, Meguro SSG MSG-2560B, Iwatsu Frequency counter SC-7102, HP Valve volt meter 410C, TRIO Audio oscilator AG-202A, DELICA Dipmeter, Kuranishi Antenna analyzer BR-200, etc. | |||
Middle shelf | Left side | The 1960s All tube |
HF AM |
My dream HF AM Radios: TRIO 9R59 Line (9R59, SM5, CC-6, SP-5, TX-88A, VFO-1) |
Right side | 50MHz AM |
My old 50MHz AM Transceiver (Portable radios are in transistors): Nisshin-denshi Skyelite66, TRIOTR-1000, Inoue-denki FDAM-3, TRIO TR-1100, TRIO TR-1200, and the ultimate portable radio, National RJX-601 | ||
Lower shelf | Left side | HF SSB |
My dream HFSSB Radios: YAESU400 Line (FRDX400, SP-400, FLDX400, FTV-650, FL2000B) |
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Right side | My dream, the highest peak, HF SSB Transceiver : Collins KWM-2A |
** YAESU FT-817 placed right below the KWM-2A is for portable operations, but it's normally set here for monitoring the bands or instnat QSOs while I'm working PC.
** The radio at the top of the shlef is for EchoLink Node. ALINCO DR-420H.
Maker | Category | Model | Frequency | Emission Type | Output Power | Final device | Remarks |
TRIO | Transmitter(HF+50MHz) | TX88A | 3.5MHz-50MHz | AM/CW | 10W | 807 | This series of radio were the best line and dream in those days, and I used to see them visting old-timer's shack in local. I was just impressed and excited looking at him working Europes after another on AM with a 21MHz dipole antenna put up in the garden. It was very common that strong stations on 50MHz were also using TX88A. Those who put modification on final, changing final tube to 6146B, supplying extra electric power from homebrew external powersupply, using external modulator putting out a "big power" of 50W, were Court nobles. A viblation noise from the modulation transformer of TX-88A for its AM modulation work used to freak me out. |
TRIO | VFO(HF+50MHz) | VFO-1 | 3.5MHz-50MHz | - | - | - | |
TRIO | Receiver(HF) | 9R59 | 0.55MHz-30MHz | AM/CW/SSB | - | - | |
TRIO | Preslector(3.5/7MHz)+ X'tal converter(14/21/28MHz) |
SM-5 | 14/21/28MHz -->3.5MHz |
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TRIO | 50MHz X'tal converter | CC-6 | 50MHz -->7MHz |
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NISSHIN | 50MHz Transceiver | SkyElite6 (Panasky Mark6) |
50MHz | AM (FM: Option) | 10W | 2E26 | A dreamful outstnading high-power(10W!!) transceiver for local ragchew, covering all the band with VFO. |
INOUE | 50MHz Transceiver | FDAM-3 | 50MHz | AM/FM | 1W | 2SC776 | This is a solid-state radio covering all the band completely, and was absolutely outstanding feature. Local stations used use this, and was also my dream radio. Of course, this is the first portable 50MHz transceiver with VFO built in in Japan. |
TRIO | 50MHz Transceiver | TR-1000 | 50MHz | AM | 1W | 2SC697 | This is also a solid-state radio, but this was my best friend in my senior high student time. This is the first portable 50MHz transceiver in history, and is very big and heavy using eight size-D batteries!! Transmitter part is X'tal controlled, therefore only five spots are given for the transmission. However, in those days, it was common to listen to all the band after calling CQ, and there was no problem to enjoy QSOs. (What a lovely days, then!) I can never forget an experience to work VK station, while I was taking a walk on a bicycle, with the installed whip antenna with 59+ RS report, under extremely high solar activity. (I called back on 50.3MHz to his CQ call on 52.0MHz!) |