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Written by Ranko Boca, 4O3A
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Monday, 04 August 2008 |
 On picture you can see SO2R at the beginning of 2008. Almost all is functional and station is fully automated.
Two SAC X antenna controllers communicates with radios takes care about all switching in shack.
Rotary towers and 2L80 rotor are controlled with new RAC X – Rotor antenna controllers. Those ones on picture are prototypes, or to be exact – those are 0 series samples with all options built in. Manipulating is now quick and safe.
Both radios are FT1k Mark series loaded with INRAD filters. It is very important to have both radios the same. Less confusion.
Linear amplifiers are OM Power, manual tuned. Final plan is to have at least one auto tune amplifier (or both), but it is last on my priority list. Somehow, I can live with manual tuned ones. OM Power amps are easy to be tuned and one when you carefully put stickers with marked tuning positions amps are semiautomatic. Thanks to protections on amplifier you will be saved even if you even forget to change band switch (it happened many times)
Next step, planed to be finish before CQ WW 2009 is to replace SAC X controllers with new ones, to add remote keyboard on SAC X and to put up all antennas.
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