ZL4KF Amateur Radio Station - New Zealand


 

 


zl4kf station

The equipment consists of a new (August 2009) Yaesu FT2000D along with the DMU and matching speaker, a Heil headset and a Heathkit SB220.

For antennas I have a home-brew 3 element 20 meter Yagi  on a tower which can be raised to 90 feet but more normally sits at about 75 feet. Although it's not a large, long-boom antenna it works very well and is about as large an antenna as I can reliably use here on the hill-top where it is often very windy. Computer designed about 15 years ago it has a good F/B ratio, good gain and is tuned for 14.2 MHz.

For 80 meters I have a full size ¼λ vertical on the roof of a large corrugated iron workshop roof. There are 20 or so  elevated radials attached and it all works quite well for DX. On 40 there is a ¼λ vertical on another steel roof and there is also a backup 20 meter vertical, again on a metal roof.
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ZL4KF station equipment.
ZL4KF August 2009


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Solar-terrestrial indices for 10 March follow. Solar flux 80 and estimated mid-latitude A-Index 6. The mid-latitude K-index at 2100 UTC on 10 March was 2 (11 nT). No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours.
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