N3TTT
Amateur Radio · Contesting · Towers

N3TTT

Ham radio operator running a home station, a portable kit for POTA, and a fully remote contest station at AA1K.

The remote station → Station gear

The Stations

Three setups, one callsign.

01 / Home

Home Station

Radios

  • Icom IC-7610
  • Yaesu FTdx10

Antennas

  • OCF dipole on 50' military fiberglass mast
  • 33' vertical for 40m
  • 20m phased verticals

Accessories

  • Array Solutions 8-PAK
  • Inrad W1 headset
02 / Portable

Portable / Mobile

Radios

  • Icom IC-705
  • Yaesu FT-857D
  • sBitx

Antennas

  • Chelegance JPC-12 portable HF vertical
  • Chameleon EMCOMM III Portable
  • Wolf River Coils Silver Bullet 1000
  • Hamsticks for mobile / POTA

Accessories

  • mAT-705 tuner
  • Panasonic Toughbook CF-20
  • MacBook Air
  • Linux laptop
Remote Operating

Contesting from home, on a big station

Since 2021 we've been operating AA1K remotely, from RemoteRig boxes on a K3 to a full FlexRadio setup with wireless Green Heron antenna switching.

2021Remote link goes live
6thCQWW SSB 2023, Multi-Multi
Flex6400 + PGXL today
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Green Heron rotor controller and a row of GH Everyware wireless remote boxes at AA1K
GH Everyware wireless remotes at AA1K
GH Everyware running on macOS under Wine
Projects

Antenna switching from any OS

Running the Green Heron Everyware client on macOS with Wine and natively on Linux, so band and antenna changes don't need a Windows box.

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