Hi! I'm Larry, located in Sandusky Ohio, 50 miles west of Cleveland Ohio.
My station uses an Anan 200D SDR transceiver, an Drake L4B amplifier and a Palstar AT-2K antenna tuner. My antennas are dipoles centered on a 65 foot tower well behind my house. They are fed with buried hardline.
I am using an EV RE-320 microphone and a Symetrix 528E just before the Anan. Receive audio goes to a Symetrix 420 amplifier feeding a pair pf JBL L-88 speakers that are about 55 years old and located on the shelf just above my desk.
This is my desk, the main operating position. The rack on the left hold the audio gear. If you look at the two monitors, the left is Thetis and the right one is showing a homebrew 8877 front panel via a web cam. If you have a noisy amplifier, put it in the basement and focus a web cam on it. It very quiet and I can see exactly what it's doing!
The 65 foot Rohn 25 tower is located 250 feet behind my house. I'm not fighting RF in the shack problems anymore. I have 2 runs of 7/8 hardline and 1 run of 1/2 hardline and power running underground to the tower. The antennas are wire dipoles, each trimmed for the frequencies that I normally use.
The main desktop computer at W8ER is a homebrew Intel I9. It uses an Asus motherboard and has 32G of high speed RAM. For storage it has a Samsung gen3 1T NVMe SSD that has Windows 10 installed. I can also plug in other drives from the front panel with other Operating Systems like Windows 11 and Linux Mint.
If you're wondering what the CPU utilization is when using Thetis, it's under 2%!
A computer that has fascinated me since it's introduction is the Intel NUC. I have several, doing various duties around the house. They are all networked together. Since Intel spun off the NUC division to Asus, the price of used NUC's has fallen and they have become bargains. The Asus NUC's however are pricey and not competitive.
Below are links to web sites or software that I have found and use daily. If you have any questions or comments, please shoot me an email at larryw8er@gmail.com .