Touisset Point, RI – Narragansett Bay in coastal New England. (Sakonnet Lighthouse picture below is just off our shore – photo taken 12/24/22)

WAS/40 meters OMISS

QRZ WAS   W all continents   250+ counties 200+ grids

WAS/Mixed bands – WAS 40  – OMISS

3905 century club 100 pt award 2000pts pending

WAC All continents – 50 countries+   — QRZ

Participate in : OMISS – member  USTNet.net – member   3905 Century Net – member, HHH net

US Traffic Net – TOP OP February 2023

OMISS- TOP OP March 2023

Solar powered operation. W1AW is in my logbook.  2/3/23

FTDX101-D, FTDX10 & FT-991A (2m/70CM)

MFJ 339 AT, MFJ 2M AT, Palstsr 1800 ATU, ACOM (1000w) LA, Ameritron ALS 606 (600w) amp, 75amp dc ps, LDG 1000 ProII hp atu

Yaesu M-1 Desk Mic- HF. Yaesu M-70- UHF/VHF

UHF/VHF 38ftvertical secured on portable stand

HF 43 ft – AV-6160 multiband vertical. 4 to 1 unun

secured to four foot iron pipe to concrete base, 82 ground radial counterpoise elements, staked, insulated wire, deployed 360 degrees around DX engineering radial plate, , 36 longer elements 33ft and 12  (66ft.) at 1/4 wave 80 meters, arrayed direction to south by south west, 4 to 1 un-un.

3 – 8 ft. ground rods (each antenna & shack point of entry), #6  buried/trenched, bare copper to each rod to single point ground at station door, LMR 400 to antenna to cable mangement board with pl259 connectors and single ground lug to ground buss in station, 15″ x 15″ flat, square, copper ground plates for all electonic components and HT chargers in room. All grounds designed with single point ground to buss via flat copper strap, buss ground via (1) #6 bare copper to outside ground rod.

Lightening arrestor at station entrance ground, and at antenna for hf vertical.

Yaesu stand mic on flat copper plate with ground via flat copper strap to buss.

Toroid cores and ferrite chokes – wrapped through toroid to lmr 400 feed, chokes on other incidental electronic cords, standard ground kits of each (2) stripped lmr 400 line at antenna to ground