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Club Station
The club station, W2CXM, is located in the North Tower of Barton Hall. All licensed club members may use the equipment in the station, 24 hours a day. The station is active on 80-10 meters, SSB and CW, and on 2 meters/70 cm, all modes. Occasionally, the station is also active in contests or Field Day. Currently, the club is in the process of rebuilding after a construction project. We now have HF stations on the air with two antennas, and are working on a satellite set up to help support CubeSats
Current station equipment on HF includes a Kenwood TS-2000, Icom 746, a HB9 vertical for Multiple Bands, and a Force 12 CX4 yagi at 100' for 10-40 meters.
VHF station equipment includes a Kenwood TS-790 UHF/VHF all-mode transceiver and several 2 meter and 440 MHz directional antennas.
The club also operates a 2 meter APRS Digipeater, and a 2 meter repeater at 146.610Mhz -600 offset with no tone.
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Barton Antennas
| Mast/Tower | Type | Bands | Usage | Model | Cable label | Radio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APRS | Vertical | 2m, 70cm | APRS | ? | (2) Blue | Into splitter. VHF on APRS. UHF Unused. |
| Beam & Receive Loop | Beam | 6m | Available | ? | (3) Blue | Rotator - Radio Shack 15-1245 |
| Loop | HF | Receive loop | Wellbrook ALA1530LNPro | (5) Blue | Kenwood TS-2000 receive port | |
| DR Vertical | Vertical | 6m-80m | Disaster Recovery | Butternut HF9 | (3) Red | Kenwood TS-2000 ant1 via tuner |
| Satellite | Beam | 2m | Satellite | KLM 2M-14C | (1) Green | Kenwood TS-2000 |
| Helical | 70cm | Satellite | M2 436cp30 with SSB SP-7000 Pre-amp | (2) Green | Kenwood TS-2000 | |
| HF Beam | Beam | 20m | HF DX | Force 12 CX4 | (2) Red | DX Station |
| 40m | HF DX | (1) Red | DX Station | |||
| Facilities Dual-Band | Vertical | 2m, 70cm | Special events & SkyCommand | Diamond X50 C2 | (6) blue | TS-2000 (VHF/UHF splitter) for skycommand except during Special Events |
| Available | (1) Blue | Available - former discone | ||||
| Available | (4) Blue | Available |
Rhodes Antennas
| Mast/Tower | Type | Bands | Usage | Model | Cable label | Radio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Satellite | Beam | 2m | Satellite | KLM 2M-14C | Kenwood TS-2000 | |
| Beam | 70cm | Satellite | M2 436cp30 with SSB SP-7000 Pre-amp | Kenwood TS-2000 | ||
| Repeater UHF | Vertical | UHF / VHF | Repeater | Yaesu DR-1X Repeater |
