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Equipment

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HF gear

  • Kenwood TS-530 - My first HF rig and usually my favorite radio for HF contacts.
  • ICOM IC 756 Pro - My second Hf rig. It was a bid I won that I had thought I was too low and had lost. The features are nice but it is now the primary HF rig in the shack - for now. I recently started to dig into the menus and features to see how well it performs.
  • Kenwood TS-440s -My backup rigs. These units are amazing for the price I paid, the ease of operation, ability to accept inadvertant tuning mismatches and simple layout. Plug it in, ground it, screw on the antenna, tune it and start making contacts with other hams. 
  • Yaesu FT891 - mobile unit. It is installed and has been used to check into the ECARs Net.  It is connected to two whips one tuned on 40M and one tuned on 75M.



VHF/UHF gear

  • Kenwood mobiles
  • ICOM mobiles
  • Alinco mobiles and handheld
  • Radio Shack mobile and handhelds
  • Yaesu FT70Dr handheld - newest addition to the equipment
  • TYT MD380 both the UHF and VHF
  • Anytone mobile

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Computers

  • HP Laptop - Inexpensive , with AMD processor and generally a pain to use in any serious operation. The touch screen activates things randomly. It is slightly worse that a poorly shielded regen receiver. But is allows me to program Yamaha electronic pianos quite nicely. Horrible contest logging machine. 


  • Toshiba Laptop - A windows 7 machine with an Intel 3 chip. It works and has generated many Cycle the Seacoast and Trek Across Maine communication logs.


  • micro computers Win10-. I purchased two of the most inexpensive of these from Amazon. One was the ACEPC-was on sale for less than $99USD. The other is a "Fanless Intel Pro and again on sale for less than $100 USD.  I went all out an purchased an inexpensive 1TB drive. Surprisingly the one with the added HD does really well running Windows 10 (Far better than even the HP Laptop)  Both units have an Intel Atom processor. Both units when operating have either a 128G or 256G card/USB drive plugged in. Both are mountable on the back of a TV set or computer monitor. This frees up space for more radios.    (December 10 2020- both units have failed after a Win 10 update. They have been replaced by a Raspberry Pi 4)


  • Raspberry Pi -I  have picked up several of these over the last several years. The 2, 2+,and 3 are in various different projects.   Most of my current logging has been on the newest Raspberry Pi 4 with dual monitors.


Antenna Analyizers etc

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MFJ-259

This is my oldest go to anaylizer. It has served me well for the last 15 years. Since the manual is no longer available at the new MFJ site, I have found one courtesy of https://qrzcq.com/pub/RADIO_MANUALS/MFJ/MFJ--259B-RF%20analyzer-Op-Manual.pdf


EU1KY FAA-450 Funtronics hf/vhf/uhf antenna analyzer

A great small package you can buy complete, build as a kit or a combination of the two. It is small enough to be used in the field or on the bench at home.  On the EU1KY website there are construction tips, programing procedures, and a video going through the assembly of the kit and calibration https://elekitsorparts.com/product/faa-450-antenna-analyzer-eu1ky  

Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=436Xb5-bSnc&feature=emb_rel_pause




Nanovna

About NanoVNA

NanoVNA is very tiny handheld Vector Network Analyzer (VNA),designed by edy555,  it is a very portable but high-performance vector network analyzer.    It is standalone with lcd display, portable device with battery.  Website:  https://nanovna.com/

MFJ 259B

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FAA-450 Antenna Analyzer

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