Stuff in the Shack - click for pictures

Homebrew Stuff

• Keyer

Hamfest Specials - Deals so good, I couldn't pass 'em up, but maybe I should've...

• Clegg FM-28 Picked this up at MARA's 2002 Swapfest in Stoughton, Wisconsin
• Kenwood TR-9130 This was from the Chicago FM Club Radio Expo 2002, in Grayslake, Illinois.
• Mirage B108 Also from Radio Expo 2002
• KDK FM-2030 Also from Radio Expo 2002
• Drake TR-22 Also from Radio Expo 2002
• Icom IC-2A Also from Radio Expo 2002

Appliances (MPR Equipment)

Since this stuff is all off-the shelf, no pictures are necessary, right?

• Alinco DR-605TQ My 2m/70cm mobile with cross band repeater. (Works nicely with HTX-245 on my belt, with a Maldol AS-25"dummy load" installed on the HT.) I don't like how hot it runs stock, so I added a fan - now it stays much cooler. Fan is on when the radio is on.
• Radio Shack HTX-252 2m Mobile in the KC9BFD (XYL's) Radio Bug. I consider it part of "my"�shack, as I installed it, I maintain it....
• Alinco DX-77T Base HF Radio.
  • LDG AT-11MP Antenna Tuner
• RadioShack HTX-245 2m/70cm HT
• Communications Specialists TE-32 This is a fancy outboard tone encoder, which I use in conjunction with my TR-9130.

You should note, however, that I have re-adjusted most of the radios (except the HTX-245) because of mikes that were "too hot", or "too cold". Apparently, nobody makes a radio set that's "just right" for me out of the box from the factory.

MPR? What's that? It's Mass-Produced Retail electronics, as opposed to stuff that somebody put together by their own self. That is, if you like how somebody else's sounds, you can go down to your local radio supermarket and buy one and sound just like them, rather than trying to figure out what the appropriate bias is on an MPF102 for a 10dB gain class AB amplifier at 10.7 Mc.