Continuing the Camb-Hams traditional Scottish Island activations, we’ve decided to return to the Isle of Arran (IOTA EU-123) operating from a cottage on the west of the island near Balliekine IO75HO during the 22nd of May till 29th of May 2016.
Operational plans are currently.
- HF bands from 80m and 40m through10m will be covered with four stations , all capable of running the legal power limit from five linear amplifiers
- 6m, 4m and 2m again all at legal limit
- 2m and 70cm satellites
Equipment wise, here’s a taster:
- HF
- 4 * Elecraft K3 transceivers on HF
- 3 * Elecraft KPA-500 amplifiers
- Expert 1K-FA HF linear
- 5B4AGN and DuneStar transmitting band-pass filters
- VHF 6m
- 6m: Elecraft K3 transceiver
- 6m: Yaesu VL-1000 “Quadra” linear
- 6m: 6 element YU7EF wide spaced
- VHF 4m
- Icom IC-756ProIII transceiver
- G4DDK Nacton transverter
- 300W solid-state linear,
- 7 element YU7EF wide spaced
- VHF 2m
- Icom IC-910 transceiver
- M1BXF Homebrew 1.25Kw SSPA
- 17 element Tonna (without) elevation
- DG8 preamp
- Satellites
- Icom IC-910 transceiver
- Wimo 2m & 70cm X-Quads
- SSB Electronics Preamps
- Yaesu G-5500 computer controlled rotator system (PCSat32)