My Equipment

My Equipment

Hi, I'm DL8BNG, previously DO9NBN! My amateur radio license class E was issued on Jan 2025; class A was issued on May 2025. So I still have a lot of experimenting to do.

Here's some of the radio and auxiliary equipment I use:

I love free hardware and software (free as in freedom, not beer) and hence am very happy about the Hermes Lite 2 project. Of course I had to get one. The Hermes Lite 2 output power is rated at 36.9dBm (5Watts) maximum, which is fed into an MLA300 amplifier. The MLA300 has a maximum output power of 300 Watts.

I am still experimenting with my antennas; currently, I use a single 15m long multi band trap circuit dipole for short wave radio. This dipole supports the 10m, 15m, 20m and 40m bands.

Receiving an amateur station on the 20m band with USB modulation using the Hermes Lite 2 and the quisk software.

I didn't expect a VNA to be such a useful instrument, but now that I've got one I wouldn't want to miss it. I've used it to analyze all my antennas and found the Diamond X-30 to be the one with the best SWR so far...

I originally bought this one to do EMV measurements of various "IoT" and other HF emitting circuitry I was experimenting with, but it turns out it's quite useful for amateur radio measurements as well.

This PAC2200 power meter is quite useful for measuring the efficiency and power factor. It includes an oscilloscope function accessible from the browser.

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