Equipment
As already mentionned in the 'History' section, I fortunately had kept some of my 'old' equipment which was soon repleted with new material. I am sure more will be bought as time progresses. As it is with any hobby, the amount of stuff and equipment grows with the years...
For convenience I made up a twofold shack in a corner and the adjacent front of the living room: one for the VHF/UHF and one for the HF activities, as can be seen in the following picture. This is the situation as of the beginning of 2026, before extending my shack with a Yaesu FTDX-101MP (click on it if you want see a much bigger version of it).
At this moment (2026) this gives me the following list of commercial ham equipment in use now (besides a lot of home-brewed modems, amplifiers and many more):
| Transceivers |
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| RX | Bearcat 9000XLT (kept from before) and in use as a scanner for VHF, UHF and the airband | |
| VHF/UHF | Kenwood TM-V7 2m/70cm with Konica table microphone and Kenwood SP-230 external speaker Baofeng GT-5R & GT-5R Pro portables |
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| HF | Icom IC-7300 with Icom SP-20 external speaker and Icom SM-30 external microphone | |
| Yaesu FTDX-101MP with Yeasu M-100 microphone | ||
Antenna |
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| VHF/UHF | Omnidirectional Diamond X300N (2m/70cm 200W PEP) | |
| HF | Hexbeam SP6CYN (1500W PEP) with Yaesu G-1000DXCS rotor | |
| Diamond WD-330S (2-28.6 MHz 150W PEP) | ||
Various |
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| HF/VHF/UHF power SWR meter KPO DG-503MAX (1,6-525 MHz 200W used for HF) | ||
| Welz SP-230 VHF power & SWR meter | ||
| Jetfon PC 55SW power supply (9-15V 55A used for HF) | ||
| Daiwa PS-120 XM power supply (0-15 Volts 14 A used for VHF/UHF)) | ||
| TSA-6601 144/430 MHz power & SWR meter | ||
| CW paddle home-made by my father & paddle Bencher BY-1 | ||
| CW trainer Morserino 32 (kit originally developed by OE1WKL) | ||
| ON-AIR sign home-made and connected to IC-7300 | ||
| HP Elitedesk 800G2 Mini 2.5GHz-8GB RAM-1TB SSD-Win10 Pro | ||