Here's my 2 meter antenna. It is just a
Ringo Ranger
2, but it seems to work reasonably well.
It is 3 5/8 waves stacked for 2 meters. The base of the antenna
is about
20 feet off the ground.
And the length of the antenna is approximately 14 feet.
I know its not real
easy to see,
but here is my G5RV that I use for HF. It is now up
about 20 feet above the ground.
Here is my car. Its
a
1991 Oldsmobile 88. The car is in great shape and it only had 89K
miles when it was bought. I've since tacked on 5K miles. My
Diamond
dual-band
2 meter/70 centimeter is in the center of the roof. It is a 1/4
wave
stacked on a 5/8 wave
for 2 meters, and it is 3 stacked 5/8 waves for 70 centimeters.
The
overall length of the
antenna is approximately 5 feet.
Here is my MFJ (Mighty Fine Junk) 949E
Tuner that I
use for HF. I can also tune my
G5RV on 6 Meters with this tuner.
Here are my handheld radios. From
left to
right: an Alinco DJS11T 50mW/340mW 2 Meter
Handheld (receiver sensivity poor due to exposure to a thunderstorm
with heavy
rain), Icom W32A
500mW/5W 2 Meter/70 Centimeter Dual-Receive and Crossband-Repeat
Handheld, Yaesu
VX-5RS 6 Meter/2 Meter/and 70 Centimeter Wide-Band RX (reasonably good
sensetivity,
fair slectivity) Handheld, and an Icom IC-2 Wide-Band RX scanner
(reasonably
good
sensetivity, fair slectivity).
Here is my Yaesu FT-857 HF, VHF, and UHF
Rig.
It transmits on all of the HF bands except
60 Meters. And the rig is also capable of operation on 6 Meters,
2
Meters, and 70 Centimeters.
Here are a few other items in my
shack. On the
left is a 100mW AM broadcast band
transmitter that I built out of a kit, and that drifts in
frequency. On
the right, from top to
bottom is my MFJ 2 meter/ 1.25 Meter SWR/Wattmeter. In the middle
is a
Heathkit 2 Meter
SWR Meter with a Wattmeter added on by Ed W8OKE. The bottom item
is an
adjustable
regulated voltage power supply that I built out of a kit at my class in
electricity/ electronics at
schematic that I found on the internet. I think I fried the
OP-AMP
because the VOX circuit is
currently non-functional, however it was
working for
about 2 years.