mitaux8030
Silent Key
Hi all,
Here's my shack. There's other radios - mostly mobiles - stored away for when they are required. In the mobile, there's an Icom 208H and a PRM8030 UHF mobile, and a Quansheng TG45AT portable for fireground comms. A VX2r lives in the glovebox for portable operations, and a Kenwood TH-D7AG occasionally gets used to 'remote' control the Kenwood TS2000 base ham rig too.
The Kenwood TS43X (TS430s) has an interesting history behind it - it was used on a yacht as a marine radio and became faulty after months of exposure to salt air and spray etc. I came along and purchased it for $5 and fixed it up with about $80 of parts, bead blasted the case and resprayed it, and approximately 100 man-hours of fault-finding, replacing parts and retuning. It now serves as a backup rig for my ham radio activities, and does some AM broadcast band DX'ing too.
The two large handhelds are Philips PRP80 - one VHF, one UHF. These dwarf the UBCD-396T. The mobile is a Philips PRM8040 UHF. There's my workhorse & pride & joy AOR AR5000 and matching SDU5000... and on top of the Diawa antenna matcher is my latest toy, a Degen DE1103 - a cheap portable that continues to amaze me with just how capable it is...
Here's my shack. There's other radios - mostly mobiles - stored away for when they are required. In the mobile, there's an Icom 208H and a PRM8030 UHF mobile, and a Quansheng TG45AT portable for fireground comms. A VX2r lives in the glovebox for portable operations, and a Kenwood TH-D7AG occasionally gets used to 'remote' control the Kenwood TS2000 base ham rig too.
The Kenwood TS43X (TS430s) has an interesting history behind it - it was used on a yacht as a marine radio and became faulty after months of exposure to salt air and spray etc. I came along and purchased it for $5 and fixed it up with about $80 of parts, bead blasted the case and resprayed it, and approximately 100 man-hours of fault-finding, replacing parts and retuning. It now serves as a backup rig for my ham radio activities, and does some AM broadcast band DX'ing too.
The two large handhelds are Philips PRP80 - one VHF, one UHF. These dwarf the UBCD-396T. The mobile is a Philips PRM8040 UHF. There's my workhorse & pride & joy AOR AR5000 and matching SDU5000... and on top of the Diawa antenna matcher is my latest toy, a Degen DE1103 - a cheap portable that continues to amaze me with just how capable it is...