What's In My Ham Shack

In this episode I am starting what I hope will become a series where Amateur Radio operators talk about what equipment they have and use in their Ham Shacks.

Ham Shack Definition

A good definition of exactly what a Ham Shack is can be found on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_shack

Categories of Ham Radio gear

I tend to divide gear into the following categories.

Portable - hand-held devices designed for carrying.

Mobile - equipment that is designed to be used in a vehicle.

Base - gear used in a fixed station environment.

Miscellaneous - other stuff.

My Ham Shack

You can google any of these model numbers to see what the hardware looks like and learn more about it.

Portable Gear

Allinco DJ-190 Handy-Talkie

Yeasu VX-6R tri-band Handy-Talkie

Mobile Gear

Yeasu FT-8800 dual-band radio

New Motorolla Mount (NMO) antenna mount

Comet B-10nmo mobile antenna

Comet SBB-5nmo mobile antenna

Base Station Gear

ICOM IC-746 HF+6m+2m radio

Grasshopper II vertical HF antenna

Unknown brand vertical 2-meter/70-cm base station antenna

MFJ-4225MV Switching Power Supply

MFJ-949E Manual Antenna Tuner

LDG Electronics AT-200Pro II Automatic Antenna Tuner

Computer running Xubuntu 16.04

West Mountain RIGblaster Advantage digital interface

Miscellaneous Gear

MFJ-269C Antenna Analyzer

Stereo head-phones and microphone

Push-to-Talk pedal

RTL-SDR Dongle

Collection of various connectors and adaptors