OMARC, the Ocean-Monmouth Amateur Radio Club, Inc.

The OMARC Membership Station/Mobile Photo Album.


The purpose of this page is to feature OMARC members and their stations at home and mobile as well as when portable, on DX vacations and expeditions. All club members are invited to submit a digitial photo or to submit photos for scanning to N2CKH. We will be putting together a QSL card page soon that will feature the members own QSL card and or the members best ever received QSL card. With the proliferation of digital camera's we hope to have many photo's in the near future.

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KB2SEO station, click to enlarge

Above is the station of Drew, KB2SEO, now a good 'ol boy fromn Georgia, but still and OMARC member in good standing and a frequent visitor to the Jersey Shore having been a lifelong resident of Point Pleasant.

I do not know about Easy Street, but as you can see below, Drew lives on KB2SEO Street !

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Below are some photo's of Drew's Yaesu FT-100 based HF mobile installation.

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WA2HZT in his shack

Here is Ron, WA2HZT in his shack located in Howell, N.J., Ron is active on 40/20/15/10 meters on CW mostly, although he resorts to Phone on occassion. His station consists of a classic Kenwood TS-820S with VFO-820 and his antennas are a 3 element Wilson tribander and a 40 meter dipole.


KB2OPQ Shack

This is a shot of ARS KB2OPQ located in Ocean, N.J., Rich is active from his well designed station on all bands from 160 to 70cm most modes, including digital and FSATV on 70cm. Rich uses an FT-990 and FT-736R as his main station with an FL-2100 for QRO.

KB2OPQ Mobile

KB2OPQ Mobile

Here are some shots of the KB2OPQ mobile. Rich uses an Icom IC-726 with Outbacker antenna for 80-10 and 6 meter operation from his Pathfinder.

KB2OPQ photos taken with an Olympus Color CCD Camera by KB2OPQ.


W2YR Station

Click here to visit John's website.

Here is the station of W2YR, John Gagen on the coast of New Jersey in Avon-By-The-Sea. As you can see John has an up to date station consisting of an FT-1000D and FT-736R with a heil microphone suspended from above on a boom and my personal favorite the AEA-MM3 electronic keyer.

W2YR Alpha

Johns choice of QRO power is the Alpha 87A and fact his station location is so close to the ocean that the streets flood when we have a light drizzle or when the tide is in seems to help him be heard.

W2YR Himself

Here we have a shot of John outside with his tower, no he is not holding from falling, although with some of the North Easters we get here in New Jersey, I imagine he's done that in the past.

W2YR photos taken with an Olympus Color CCD Camera by KB2OPQ.


N2CKH station, click to enlarge

Above is Steve, N2CKH at his main operating position.

N2CKH, click to enlarge

The N2CKH main HF CW/SSB operating position consists of a pair of trusty Kenwood TS-930S radios and a Heath SB220. Also in the station is a Kenwood TS-450/AT with an AL-811 which gets the bulk of the daily workout. Also in the station is a Yaesu FT-890/AT that is the main RTTY and PSK31 station. For 6m, 2m, 220 and 432 the station is a Yaesu FT-736R with a TE-Systems brick 150w amplifier for each band. In addition Steve still maintains his old Novice station consisting of an old Kenwood TS-520SE system with all accessories. All radios have optional CW and SSB filters and are all tied to a switching matrix for radio selection to an AEA MM-3 CW keyer. A 2nd MM-3 and extra Bencher paddles are available for backup and quest operators as required.

A4S on Oak Tree, click to enlarge

Above is a photo of the Cushcraft A4S with 40m add-on kit and A50-5 above mounted on an Oak tree in the backyard. The system consists of an IIX pole mount and tailtwister rotor to turn the 2 inch OD 3/8 inch wall T6061 aluminum mast. For details of this unique installation visit his home page listed below.

N2CKH Mobile station, click to enlarge

When not at home Steve operates HF/6m mobile from his Ford Bronco using an FT-847 and W6MMA MP-1 antenna system. Steve can be found on the OMARC 2m repeater and his 6m repeater on 53.43.

Visit N2CKH at http://www.qsl.net/n2ckh and see more of his station equipements and interests in amateur radio.


W1GD antennae, click to enlarge

Above is the first of more to come photo's of the W1GD station located in Wall, NJ with his tower and KLM KT34XA tribander for 10-15-20 on top clearly pictured. Recently Gerry has been modifing the boom of his KT34XA to operate as a dipole on 40 meters.

Here is W1GD himself at his operating position.

W1GD station, click to enlarge


The club snail mail address is:

OMARC, Inc.
P.O. Box 267
Oakhurst, New Jersey 07755

Please use the following e-mail addresses for:

Questions about this web site, club repeaters, or anything:

Steve Hajducek, N2CKH Club Webmaster

n2ckh@cybercomm.net