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Richard standing next to a Cushcraft XM520 monobander
for 20M, waiting to go up the tower. These are big antennas.
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K5NA has won many awards in both contesting and DXing.
This photo was on the cover of the Nov./Dec. 2000
issue of NCJ.
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If you follow the white PVC poles, you'll be staring
down a beverage receive antenna aimed to the south-west.
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The 15M tower, with a Cushcraft XM515 and a large yagi for
50 MHz at the top. A Cushcraft XM510 yagi for 10M is side-mounted lower
down, put up temporarily for a contest weekend.
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The top of the 40M tower, with a Cushcraft XM240 on a
rotor. The tower will eventually host stacked 40M yagis, as they can be
constructed and installed.
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This is a closer view of the 82 foot tower near the house.
It has a Cushcraft X9 tribander, and monoband yagis for 50 MHz, 144
MHz, 222 MHz, and 432 MHz.
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A view of the towers from way back down the driveway.
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Jim George N3BB, operating on 40 meters SSB in the
2004 ARRL international DX Contest M/2 at K5NA.
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Scott Pederson KI5DR, operating on 20 meters SSB in the
2004 ARRL international DX Contest M/2 at K5NA.
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Scott Pederson KI5DR, operating on 20 meters SSB in the
2004 ARRL international DX Contest M/2 at K5NA.
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Rich Thorne N5ZC, operating on 15 meters SSB in the
2004 ARRL international DX Contest M/2 at K5NA.
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Richard King K5NA, operating on 20 meters SSB in the
2004 ARRL international DX Contest M/2 at K5NA.
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Scott Pederson KI5DR has
operated many contests from the K5NA superstation, and has helped with a lot
of the tower work. He has his own
photo collection of the station
and antennas.
Check out these photos
taken by Ken WM5R of the 2003 CQ World Wide DX Contest, Phone multi-operator,
multi-transmitter contest effort at K5NA.
Check out these photos taken
by John KE5C of a September, 2001 antenna raising party at K5NA.
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