About Station ZL4KF.

In the shack (part of my office) the equipment consists of a Yaesu FT2000D (August 2009) along with the matching DMU and speaker, a Heil headset and an elderly Heathkit SB220. There is also an Ameritron Watt Meter and an MFJ 989D antenna tuner. Normally I use a Heil HM10 boom mic switched to the HC5 cartridge.

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. I designed the Yagi on a computer in about 1993, 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 mounted 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.

ZL4KF June 2010