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In about 1967, when I was 10, my dad said "let's build a shortwave radio". We almost got a Knight Kit but he had some trouble with them so we built an Eico Space Ranger. I vividly remember waking up in the wee hours of the night to listen to what I now call DX and being beside myself with...

This too is a great idea. The components are available from Amazon as Hollaender fittings and they're a bit pricey but they will do what I need. Armed with this new informatoin I'm going to spend some time thinking about which approach is best. Thank you for the great suggestion.

Thanks Thunderknight. I think the cross-over bracket may be the way to go. I'll need three (at around $19 each from Amazon) to complete the project but they will do exactly what I need. Since there will be only one operator it will be easy to control who is transmitting when the receive...

I would like to mount two discones and one 2M/440 dual band antenna on a single mast and I need some advice. The mast will be installed on a one story building and it will extend about 10 feet above the eaves. I anticipate mounting the dual band antenna on the mast itself and installing a...

Simple is good if it does what you want it to do and it's also good if it is the start of something bigger. Looks great.

I have an Icom R-7100 that ought to be serviced. Is this the place in Georgia you used? Amateur Radio Service

Until recently I thought I had a pretty nice radio shack but this and other recent posts are clearly telling me that I need to step up my game. Yours is a great shack, thank you for sharing pictures. You've got the amateur radio side of things well covered and you have a small rack of gear. I...

That's gorgeous! It's so neat and so usable. I'm envious and I'm very likely to adapt some of your excellent ideas for organizing my listening position.

Thanks. I can do that.

That looks great! I'm just starting a similar project with multiple RTL dongles connected to a single computer. What are you using for a computer to control all of this? Also, what operating system are you using? I'm considering buying a relatively cheap Windows 10 or 11 box but I'm very...

Wow! That is neat, functional and just plain gorgeous. It must be fun just to be in that environment while you are enjoying your hobby. Since I am always looking to improve my own space I can see myself stealing adapting many of your ideas in my own shack. :)

I recently put together a portable kit for monitoring while I'm at work or traveling. It includes an original Belka-DSP, an Afedri Lan-IQ SDR receiver, a bluetooth speaker with an 1/8" wired input, a USB charger/battery and assorted antennas and cables. It's all in an Apache case from Harbor...

I use it every night. It’s very easy to use, even in the dark.

Thank you. At those prices I may have to get one.

I don’t know anything about train radios. Is $1200-$1300 a reasonable price?

That looks like a great monitoring post. You can hear everything from HF through UHF, it should be a lot of fun.

Thanks for sharing this Rich. For about 10 years I attended Oshkosh in support of the Disabled American Veterans' outreach efforts. I cannot describe how cool it was to monitor ATC while nearly 10,000 planes landed over the course of a weekend. At any given time three planes were landing...

That looks great! It's neat, compact and you'll be able to monitor a lot of frequencies simultaneously.

I just received a radio I bought from WB4SQI. I first contacted him on Monday of this week and he was very responsive. He answered my questions quickly and honestly. I decided to purchase the radio on Tuesday and I have it in my hands today, Thursday. It is exactly what he described and I'm...

I have all three and I think the ft-dx10 is the best of them. My 7300 is very nice and I’ve made a lot of contacts with it but the hf/vhf/uhf all mode capabilities of the 991a make it a full featured “shack in a box”. I think you can’t go wrong with any of them and I expect to continue enjoying...