N1JI - Concord, NH

Shack Photos

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Current Shack: 2015-Present

This shack lives in a corner of our bedroom. The desk is a youth desk that I had when I was a boy.

Elecraft KX3 & PX3 Panadapter
Bencher BY-1 iambic paddle
Nye Speed-X straight key
Icom ID-880H VHF/UHF/D-Star transceiver that I won in Icom's monthly Ham Nation prize drawing for October, 2015.
MFJ-4230MV 30-amp switching power supply
Baofeng UV-B5 dual band HT

Second Shack: 1996-2014

This Ten Tec Corsair station has lived in three different rooms in my house over the years. It also spent quite a few years in storage when I was wasn't active on the ham bands. I built the cabinet when it moved to a corner of my bedroom where my current shack is. I replaced this rig with my KX3 at the end of 2014. I sold it off in 2015 because I didn't have the room to keep it set up in the shack.

Top Shelf: TenTec Corsair (Model 560) with 500 Hz and 250 Hz CW filters, as well as an 8-pole 9 MHz IF filter
Bottom Shelf: TenTec Model 280 power supply, Model 263 remote VFO

First Shack: 1991-1996

This is the shack I put together when I first got licensed. Most of the equipment was purchased from (or donated by) my elmer, K1AYZ. The gear is as follows (Left to right):

Johnson Matchbox with a Heathkit SWR bridge sitting on top of it
Johnson Viking Ranger II CW & AM transmitter
Astatic D-104 microphone
National NC-303 receiver with an MFJ clock and Ham Key keyer on top of it. National speaker mounted on the wall
Ham Key paddles

Note that my callsign at the time was N1JHN. I had lots of fun working the world on CW with this station; I even made quite a few AM phone contacts around the eastern US and Europe. I sold the matchbox, Ranger II and NC-303 to fund the purchase my Ten-Tec Corsair station, above. I sometimes wish I still had this gear, especially the NC-303, but I wouldn't have the space for it, anyway.