Here you can
see some pictures of my "Shack" at my home
in the area called Unterland. You can find pictures
of my other locations on the respective pages. "Shack",
that's how we radio amateurs call our room with the
radio equipment such as transceivers for various operations
modes like ATV, FAX, SSTV, FM, SSB, satellite communication
and Packet Radio. Radio amateurs have the privilege
to build their equipment (e.g. receivers, transmitters,
amplifiers and antennas) themselves. To test these devices
I have built and acquired over time quite some test
equipment. |
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Amateur
Television (ATV) was one of the operating modes I like
most. I used to build most of my equipment myself. Shown
in the photograph below is my home-brew FM-ATV dual
band transmitter (for the 1.2 and 2.4 GHz bands). |
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During the operation
via my local ATV-repeater DB0PE I received the ATV signal
at 1.2 GHz using a long Yagi and transmitted my live
video ATV signal at 2.4 GHz using a segment dish antenna
from Connifer. To allow full-duplex operation the repeater
featured an additional 435MHz voice input. I used one
of my omni-directional multi-band stacked ground-plane
antennas for this input. Unfortunately, DB0PE is no
more operational in ATV and thus I have presently no
more opportunity to operate ATV. |
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In the pictures above you can see
my present VHF/UHF/SHF antennas which are all omni-directional
aerials |
Today
people can use a simple Internet connection to talk
to friends all over the world almost free of charge.
However I think that it is still fascinating to use
the HF bands with their specific propagation characteristics.
On the picture to the right you see a part of my antenna
system for the HF bands. The antennas are mounted on
a mast which can be rotated 360°. The rotary dipoles
are an FB-13 (for 10m, 15m, 20m) and an UFB-12 (for
12m and 17m). On top is a 4 element yagi antenna for
the 6m magic band. I use the 3-band dipole also to receive
the russian satellites with HF downlinks. For the 40m
and 80m bands I use a W3DZZ wire dipole which can partly
be seen on the picture. My transceiver is an ICOM IC-7700.
I am not very active on the shortwave bands but
if you are interested I will be happy to arrange a sked. |
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Sometimes
I am also using repeaters here in the area. Most of
them are for voice but some are also for Packet Radio
or ATV. If you want to contact me you can see in the
table below, which repeaters I can access from my home
and in which of the various operating modes. |
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10m FM
repeater
Channel |
Output
/ Input QRG in MHz |
QTH |
Call
sign |
QRA
locator |
KW4 |
A29.690/E29.590 |
Ludwigsburg |
DF0LBG |
JN48OV |
2m FM repeater
Channel |
Output
/ Input QRG in MHz |
QTH |
Call
sign |
QRA
locator |
RV47 |
A145.5875/E144.9875 |
Esslingen
Katharinenlinde Echolink 323267 |
DB0LBG |
JN48PS |
RV49 |
A145.6125/E145.0125 |
Stocksberg |
DB0STB |
JN49QB |
RV50 |
A145.625/E145.025 |
Heidelberg |
DB0ZH |
JN49IJ |
RV51 |
A145.6375/E145.0375 |
Heilbronn Echolink
469491 |
DB0GKN |
JN49OD |
RV52 |
A145.650/E145.050 |
Pforzheim |
DB0UP |
JN48IV |
RV55 |
A145.6875/E145.0875 |
Hohe
Brach |
DB0PE |
JN49SB |
RV56 |
A145.700/E145.100 |
Kalmit |
DB0XK |
JN49BH |
RV57 |
A145.7125/E145.1125 |
Ludwigsburg |
DB0YY |
JN48OV |
RV59 |
A145.7375/E145.1375 |
Künzelsau |
DB0LD |
JN49TH |
RV60 |
A145.750/E145.150 |
Stuttgart |
DB0WR |
JN48NS |
70cm FM repeater
Channel |
Output
/ Input QRG in MHz |
QTH |
Call
sign |
QRA
locator |
RU685 |
A438.5625/E430.9625 |
Esslingen
Katharinenlinde |
DB0LBG |
JN48PS |
RU692 |
A438.650/E431.050 |
Heilbronn |
DB0HN |
JN49OD |
RU696 |
A438.700/E431.100 |
Stuttgart |
DB0ST |
JN48QS |
RU698 |
A438.725/E431.125 |
Donnersberg |
DB0ND |
JN39VP |
RU699 |
A438.7375/E431.1375 |
Löwenstein |
DB0LBY |
JN49QC |
RU706 |
A438.825/E431.225 |
Mosbach |
DB0ODE |
JN49NH |
RU712 |
A438.900/E431.300 |
Stocksberg |
DB0STB |
JN49QB |
RU722 |
A439.025/E431.425 |
Mannheim |
DB0MA |
JN49GL |
RU723 |
A439.0375/E431.4375 |
Öhringen |
DB0OHR |
JN49SE |
RU725 |
A439.0625/E431.4625 |
Waldenburg |
DB0WAB |
JN49TE |
RU730 |
A439.125/E431.525 |
Landau |
DB0RO |
JN49AF |
RU732 |
A439.150/E431.550 |
Sinsheim
Echolink 271607 via DF4IU-11 |
DB0NP |
JN49KF |
RU735 |
A439.1875/E431.5875 |
Langenbrand |
DB0LAB |
JN48HT |
RU740 |
A439.250/E431.650 |
Heilbronn Echolink
469491 |
DB0GKN |
JN49OD |
RU742 |
A439.275/E431.675 |
Ludwigsburg |
DB0LBX |
JN48OV |
RU744 |
A439.300/E431.700 |
Aalen |
DB0AA |
JN58BS |
RU748 |
A439.350/E431.750 |
Künzelsau |
DB0LD |
JN49TH |
RU754 |
A439.425/E431.825 |
Sachsenheim |
DB0GK |
JN49MA |
23cm FM repeater
Channel |
Output
/ Input QRG in MHz |
QTH |
Call
sign |
QRA
locator |
RS11 |
A1298.275/E1270.275 |
Michaelsberg |
DB0SAQ |
JN49MA |
RS28 |
A1298,700/E1270.7000 |
Löwenstein |
DB0LBY |
JN49QC |
ATV repeater
Mode |
Output
/ Input QRG in MHz |
QTH |
Call
sign |
QRA
locator |
FM-ATV |
A10200hor/E5772hor
FM-Voice 431.8875 |
Stromberg |
DB0TVB |
JN49MA |
Multimode
repeater
Mode |
Output
/ Input QRG in MHz |
QTH |
Call
sign |
QRA
locator |
Multimode incl. SSTV |
A438.600/E431.000 |
Kaisersbach/ Mainh.
Wald |
DB0UHF |
JN48TW |
Packet Radio
digipeater
Data
rate |
Output
/ Input QRG in MHz |
QTH |
Call
sign |
QRA
locator |
9K6 |
A430.600/E430.600
(igate: DB00RBS-10) |
Schwieberdingen |
DB0RBS |
JN48NV |
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The next map shows the location of
most of the above listed repeaters with reference to
my own location. This map was generated using the excellent
Freeware program "Radiomobile". Please note
that the full resolution map which you get when clicking
on the picture below is 3 MBytes large and the download
may take some time. |
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If
you are not in my area and thus cannot reach me directly
or via one of the repeaters listed above we could also
try to get in contact using "Echolink". This
is a technology which links amateur radio repeaters
via the Internet and thus allows worldwide contacts.
In addition it also provides the possibility to access
the repeaters from any PC with a Internet connection.
Access is only available for radio amateurs holding
a valid license. My node numbers are 63949 for my callsign
DD1US and 518482 when operating my simplex Echolink
gateway. |
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Usually,
when I am traveling in my car, I operate my APRS station
with the callsign DD1US-9, which transmits on VHF (144.800
MHz). Thus you can check the status, when monitoring
the APRS network. If you do not have an APRS station
yourself you can also check my status in the internet
at www.aprs.fi.
You can also simply click on the little map to the left.
If I am operating my portable station then I use the
callsign DD1US-7. Therefore you might want to check
this callsign too. |
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