What am I using?
I don’t think I’m any different to most other radio amateurs, so the equipment flow is varying all the time. Radios in, radios out, antennas up and antennas down – intentionally or not
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I’ve had numerous HF rigs, both large and small, good and bad. I still haven’t settled on a specific brand or type of radio (I probably shouldn’t either), but somehow it tends to be Yaesu rigs I end up with
. As with women, cars and computers, they have to be swapped for something newer at some point.
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Current list of devices is as follows:
HF and combined rigs:
- Yaesu FT-2000 (swapping some gear and getting a Kenwood TS-2000 soon)
- Yaesu FT-100D (small and practical)
- Yaesu FT-817ND (even smaller)
- FlexRadio Systems FLEX-1500 (nice QRP SDR)
VHF/UHF:
- Kenwood TH-D72
- Kenwood TM-D710E
- Icom IC-E2820
- Kenwood TH-F7E
- Yaesu FT-726R (2m/70cm and 10-12m)
- Yaesu FT-7800
- Yaesu VX-5
- Yaesu VX-170
- Quite a few other handhelds made in China
Antennas:
- LDG S9v31 vertical
- Longwire connected to an Icom AH-3 tuner
- Homemade OCF dipole in an inverted vee
- Random lenghts of wire and dipoles for field use
Other peripherals worth mentioning:
- AEA PK-232MBX TNC
- RigExpert Standard interface
- RigExpert Tiny interface (for FT-100D and FT-817ND)
- Yaesu MD-100A8X desktop microphone
- MFJ IntelliTuner (MFJ-929)
- MFJ VersaTuner
- Byonics TinyTrak 4
- And a plethora of smaller things I can’t remember or bother to list
I will make a new article regarding the setup, descriptions, history and pictures. Meanwhile, have a glimpse at the radial field I put down last summer 😉
