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My HAM activities:

• Radio: Mainly active in the 1968-1971 period and in the 1989, 1990 and 1992 SAC Contests. Occasionally listening a little to practice CW.
  Active now and then since March 2020, so far only on FT8.
  
• HAM software development in Java: The nice jLog tool
• QTH: Oppdal (more precisely Gjetberget) (JP42sp), mostly operated remotely from my home in Trondheim (JP53fk) using SmartSDR for Mac and IOS.

• Flexradio 6600, dual dipole for 40 and 20 meters (+3.5, + 10 + 18 + 21 + 24 + 28 with MFJ-929 tuner).  SmartSDR for Mac and IOS.
• ICOM IC-765 Transceiver (1.8 -  30 MHz), 10 - 100 W (mainly for testing CI-V with jLog)
• ICOM ID-52E handheld transceiver 5W, 144/430 MHz bands. Old ICOM IC-2SET handheld transceiver, 5W, 144 MHz band.
• MMDVM Pi-STAR modem for D-STAR
  
• History: Started with misc. equipment in 1968. Assembled my own Heathkit HW-100 in 1970, switched to the Drake R4C/TX4C in 1978, to the ICOM IC-765 in 1989, to the Flex-1500 late 2010, to the ICOM IC-7100 in Dec 2013 and the Flex 6600 late 2020.
  

• macOS "Monterey" (12.1) on an 27" Apple iMac (2017) in Trondheim
  
• macOS "Big Sur" (11.5.1) on an 27" Apple iMac (2012) in Oppdal
  
• Widows 11 Pro 64-bit in a Parallels 17 Virtual Machine
• Linux Mint 20.1 64-bit in a Parallels 17 Virtual Machine
• Linux Ubuntu 21.10 64-bit in a Parallels 17 Virtual Machine
• Network: 500/500 Mbit/s  WAN, 1 Gbit/s LAN + 800 Mbit/s WLAN
• Software: Eclipse for Java program development