Setting up the shack

After a a year or so of having my HAM radio license, upgrading to a General license, and learning all I can about the hobby, I finally put together my first station and I am technically on the air! Yea!

My modest station is made up of an IC7000 powered by a PS-125. As I live in a Condo, putting up an outdoor antenna was out of the question for the time being so I was left with the attic. My antenna is a loop cut to 40 meters, It works beautifully on 40,20, and 10 meters and could not be happier with the results. The best part of this set up is all the equipment is used and with the exception of the ladder line running to the loop from the radio.

I also have an old ICOM PCR-1000 that I 've used for years and it comes in handy for all my receiver needs. I bought this handy little receiver shortly after a short cruise on board a Coast Guard cutter. I fell in love withit and it has been on my desk attached to four different computer in the nearly ten years I've had it.

For my 'on-the-move' operations, I use a Kenwood TH-F6. When I first received my Tech License, I was out on the prowl for a good dual bander I could use at home, in the car, and out hiking. I tried various radios my friends and family had, but it was a demo of this little radio at the not so local ham radio store that sold me on this little tri-brander. My primary antenna is a Comet TH-224, a TRI-bander antenna that really works like a dream.

Well, that is pretty much my ham shack at this time. Now I need to make some contacts. :) I'm sure there will be more to come as I try to make my shack bigger and better.

73s,
Bob