Henry Gillow-Wiles, KB7RTA

Station description
Left side:
Secondary monitor

Center:
Bencher paddles
KAM plus TNC
Astron 50-amp 12-volt power supply
Heil headset/boom mic HC-4 cartridge
Primary monitor
Yaesu FT-1000D

Right side:
Top shelf:
Yaesu SP-5 speaker
VP8SSI t-shirt
Station operations manual

Lower shelf:
Pro.Sis.Tel rotor controller
Top Ten antenna switch controller
Tailtwister rotor controller
WXØB Stackmatch controller
Create RC5A-3 rotor controller

Little gray box under shelf: Top Ten A/B antenna switch
Tabletop:

Bird 43 watt meter with 5000-watt slug
Nye Viking MB5-A tuner with Tahatsu coax relay modification (to bypass tuner)
Henry 3K Premier amp
Antennas
Tower 1:
100 foot Rohn 45-g
10M 6/6/6 OWA design stack
20M DX-Engineering 4ele
40M Cushcraft 2ele
80M Inverted Vee
160M End-fed sloper
Tower 2:
55-foot Texas Towers HDX-55 Crankup
15M DX-Engineering 6ele
17M DX-Engineering 4ele

Antenna switching
Top Ten switching system controlled by band information taken from FT-1000D
10M stack controlled by WXØB stackmatch

While this station is not as neat as some I have seen in your magazine, for the number of cables I have to deal with, I think I did a fine job of cable management. The majority of cabling is run under the bench in sections of gutter screwed to the wall. This lets me find and move cables easily while maintaining some level of neatness.

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