My ANAN-7000DLE MKII setup went fairly smoothly. In this article I will cover getting ready for first use.

My new transceiver comes in two flavors. Your more expensive option, shown upper above, contains a computer. Your less expensive option, shown lower above, is the same radio but without a built-in Windows PC. Since I want this radio mostly for diversity reception and have lots of computers, I chose this Black Edition. With minor differences ANAN-7000DLE MKII setup is similar on both editions.

You are wide to get all of your connectors and cables ready before the radio arrives, because you will be really impatient to get started. First, I attended to antenna cables. All of the antenna connections on the ANAN are BNC. So, I needed one PL-259 to BNC cable for the main antenna switch, and two BNC patch cables for my wideband loop array. Each cable was 12 feet long.

My antenna setup involves attaching the main ham antennas to ANT1, and the wideband loops to ANT3 and RX2 as shown above. This should enable me to run a variety of diversity and noise cancelling combinations by configuring antennas in software.

Next up was six foot CAT7 Ethernet cable to connect the radio to my LAN switch in the radio room. You will notice the newer Orion MKII board with control Protocol 2 requires a gigabit ethernet connection on your LAN. Make sure you have this, as the radios will not run on a slower network connection.

I thought this radio will provide great audio. So, I salvaged two great speakers from an old HI-FI system. These plug into the back panel using ¼ inch phone jacks (TRS). Other cabling can wait for later, as my main use over the near term will be reception only. (By the way, a built-in ATU is not available for these radios.)

ANAN-7000DLE MKII Setup – Power Supply

This radio needs 13.8VDC at 25A for transmit and 3A for receive. That’s pretty much the same as my Flex 6300. So, I have been using my old ICOM PS-125 power supply and I figure I will use it for both ANAN and Flex. I think that should work fine as long as I don’t transmit with both at the same time.

ANAN-7000DLE MKII setup in the box included a short length of fused #10 two-conductor pair. I am using a heavy duty terminal block with spade or ring lugs to attach these radios to the power supply. Yes, I know the PS-125 is a dreaded switched-mode power supply, but in my experience it is RFI quiet.