What Equipment Do You Own?

[jaskel]

UBCD 996T
UBCD 396T
UBC 120XLT
Realistic Pro 96
Sounga 2m Handheld
Yaesu FT7900R Dual Band
GME TX3420 UHF
Icom IC-f410
Soon to get Icom IC208H Dual Band + UHF CB

Scanheads Discone
ScanX
Comet Dual Band Whip
RH771 HH Whip
RH107 HH Whip

[carmelof]

Radios:
ALINCO-DJX2000
AOR-3000,AOR-3000A,AOR-8200MK3
GRE-PSR500
ICOM-RX7,ICOM-R3,ICOM-R20,ICOM-R75,ICOM-PCR1000,ICOM-PCR1500,ICOM-PSR2500
PALSTAR-R30A
REALISTIC-PRO2035
UNIDEN-245,UNIDEN-396,UNIDEN-780
YAESU-VX7R,YAESU-FT8800,YAESU-VR500

Antennas:
CENTREFIRE MULTIBAND DIPOLE 25MHZ-500MHZ
ICOM-AH7000 DISCONE 25MHZ-1300MHZ
PALSTAR-AA30 ACTIVE ANTENNA 300KHZ-30MHZ
POLAR-214A DIPOLE 118MHZ-136MHZ
RFI-GP3 GROUNDPLANE 118MHZ-136MHZ
SCANNMASTER WIDEBAND 500KHZ-1800MHZ
WELLBROOK-ALA1530 ACTIVE LOOP 50KHZ-30MHZ

Regards Lino.

[Mathew]

Radios:
Uniden BCT-8
Uniden 396T
Puxing PX-888

Antennas:
WSMA-881 SUPER GAINER
MFJ-1717S 144/440 High Gain

[UHF-HUNTER]

As listed in my signature

With 20ft mast off the top of my roof with a Dual Band Diamond X300 and a 6DB Base

In the shed and plans to use is a 12db and another 6db Base with around 80m of Heliax 450

[Mathew]

Mobile One Scantenna

Mobile One BandSpanner

Mobile One Airband Antenna

Hey there.
How do you find the Mobile One antennas?

My local Dick Smith has them

Haha no I meant how do they perform?

[Kevaclone]

Where to start

Scanners
Hand Held
1x Uniden UBC245XLT
1x Uniden UBC3000XLT
1x Uniden UBCD396T + RH96
1x AOR AR8200
1x Realistic Pro50

Desktop/Mobile
1x Realistic Pro2004
1x Realistic Pro2005
1x Uniden UBCD996T
1x Uniden UBC760XLT

HF
1x Yaesu FRG7000
1x National Panasonic RF3100(DR31)
1x Sangean ATS818
1x Realistic DX-394

UHF/VHF/HF TXVR
Handheld
1x Kenwood TK370G
1x Kenwood TK360
1x Motorola GP339
1x Icom IC-Z1A(with remote face plate)
1x Yaesu FT-530
1x Midland 70-254(Icom IC-U16)
2x Maxon SL500
1x Maxon SL600
1x Icom(??) IC5245 (245MHz Asian CB, not sure if it's actually an Icom but is branded Icom)
1x Digitech DC1094 (VHF Marine + 155MHz-165MHz TX)
couple of .5W hanhelds
6x Realistic 55MHz

Mobile
2x Kenwood TK880H
2x Icom IC-207H
1x Motorola MCS2000
1x GME TX4600
1x GME TX3420
1x Alinco DX70TH
2x Phillips PRM8030(E band)
1x Phillips FM900 (UHF)
1x Tait T700 (VHF)

27MHz
1x Uniden AX144
1x Cobra GTL148
1x General Electric A3-5825B(modified)


Other gear
3x3 metre room dedicated to all my radio/computer gear
Aceco FC3001 RF finder/freq counter
Maldol HS-470 SWR/PWR meter
Vicom VC-2 HF SWR/PWR meter
Hewlett Packard 202H VHF Signal Generator(very old bit of gear)
Lots of various data decoding/programming/control software

Antennas
A few

[Scannersplitterguy]

kevaclone, that is sheer gluttony!

[Kevaclone]

Funny, that's not the word my wife uses to describe it

[Luke_g]

Simoco SRM9020 - QFRS
Motorola MCS2000- QAS, QPS and UHF CB
Tait TM8250- QAS and SES
Motorola GP339- QFRS, QAS, QPS, SES, UHFCB

[doppler]

Icom R72
Icom R7000
Icom R20

[Craig 01]

Radio
Icom IC-R20
Icom IC-208H
Kenwood TS440S/AT + MC-85
Delta forze SS4950
Uniden HR2510 + Daiwa Speech processor
Tait T700 755 Wideband UHF
Tait 2000 SII Midband VHF 1200ch selectable wide/narrow
Tait 2000 SII Lowband UHF 1200ch selectable wide/narrow
Tait 2000 SII Highband UHF 1200ch selectable wide/narrow
x 3 Motorola Syntrx UHF Lowband and Highband
Plus several collectable hf CB's and Microphones

Antenna

Restored Moonraker grid dip tuned and is a monster of an antenna and kicks rrse
Restored Archer 5/8 wave grid dip tuned performs as well if not better than modern verticals in it's bandwidth.
Itron 2000 with ground plane kit
13 element UHF beam
12db colinear UHF vertical
Fukner Rotator x 2

Thats the main stuff apart from all the usual ancilliary stuff.

and,

Test Gear

Techtronic 2235 USM 100mhz dual trace Oscilliscope
Leader Frequency generator am/fm/Lf/Hf/Vhf
Audio frequecy generator
Techtronic Frequency counter 100mhz
2.4 Ghz Frequency counter
Plus a heap of ancilliary test gear collected over the years.

And it all needs to be re-setup since moving location
I did use to have a hills 2 stage crank up tower,68 feet overal that the moon raker used to live on with
an Antron 99 asian copy on top but sadly had to leave it behind in Sydney(sold it) as was too much to move
with the rest of the household stuff/belongings.
Cheers,
Craig

[AIRMAN]

This arrived yesterday:







The receiver is genuine import from AOR Japan, but the AA's are 1700 mha. Made in China!

Anyone recommend where I can order some better?

The manual says the batteries can be charged either on a separate charger or while they are in the receiver. I don't know which is the best way. Anyone help me here?

My ICOM IC-RX7 works with a lithium and has a lot more stamina. Going back to AA's is a retro step, but this unit can work directly off the mains.

I gave it a trial run last night. The light nearly blinded me!!! Great how it goes out and automatically lights up when it finds a signal or you touch a control pad.

Airband booms in. I was picking up BNE and Gold Coast Centres as well as in flight movements. This is with the supplied telescopic antenna.

[bodyguard]

Nice rig airman, so envious of you. Been 15 years since I had an AOR AR1500

I recommend the eneloop batteries

You can get them from battery world

I use the eneloop in my gear here, and no I do not work for battery world

[AIRMAN]

Nice rig airman, so envious of you. Been 15 years since I had an AOR AR1500

I recommend the eneloop batteries

You can get them from battery world

I use the eneloop in my gear here, and no I do not work for battery world

Thanks for the tip re batteries BG. Yes I have 4 Eneloop plus a Sanyo NimH charger to power my keyboard and mouse for my iMac, so they are pretty good and made in Japan as well. They are 2000maH.

I will look at Battery World. TX

[Azoic]

Icom R9500
Icom R75
Alinco DX-R8
Modified FM-900 UHF
UBC-330 CRS
Yaesu VR-5000
2 x NE-768 UHF HandHelds
Uniden UH-005
Realistic PRO-2022
Yaesu FRG-7
GME Electrophone GX-287XT 27Mhz Marine Transceiver
RCI 2950 23.500-33.997Mhz HF Transceiver
Philip's FM-320 ( modified to 80 channel)
Philip's FM-620 with Split Selcall and Police receive
Tokyo HI-Power RD977 combo 1Kw / 500 W HF Linear
Ryoko 300W 2m Linear x2
Ryoko 4.5Kw 11 Band HF Dynamic Pre-Amp
Iaioki GEN LX-01 1Khz - 500 Mhz 80W RX Pre-Amp
Iaioki GEN LX-001 250Mhz - 3000 Mhz Selectable 10-2000W RX Pre-Amp x 6
QC 1924 40 MHz Dual Channel Oscilloscope
Sabtronics 8610b Frequency Counter
Homebrew 70Amp peak - 50Amp stable PSU

Before anyone asks.....NO I DID NOT PAY THE LISTED PRICE OF $17,000USD for the R9500...and NO it isn't stolen....but i did get it for $4500AUD


The Farm :
4 x 28 Element UHF Co-Phazed Beams
16 element 2 metre Quad
3 phazed Low Impedence HI-TOP Discone's
60 foot 9 band vertical, trapped and sheilded
2 x 12 element 144 Mhz vertical polarized Quagi beams
3 x 300 foot trapped longwire's
12 foot Parabolic Dish
1x 28 inch Monopole

And i still have more...........hence the edited post...

[Phil]

ill have to keep that in mind for when im driving down the coast

[vk4da]

I have a Philip's FM92 UHF for work, Tait T499 (6 meters), FT840 HF, PRM80 (that needs programming), Kenwood TM733 dual bander 2/70cm, Uniden UBCT8 scanner, TX400 UHF CB, FT747GX HF, Tait 2020 for 2 meters and an Alinco DR635 dual bander 2/70cm. All in the shack.

I also have an Icom IC 80AD (D-star HT) and an Alinco DJ-V5 HT.

In the car I have an Icom 706mk11G and an ID 880 dual band D-star rig.

Tomorrow I pick up an Icom 400pro CB for the car.

[melbourneradio]

2 ubc 996 digi scanners
1 396 digi
1 500sxuhf
1 tait tm8250
1 ft 8800
4 prm8030's
1 9000xlt
1 780xlt
1 icom 765 hf
1 alinco 2/70
4 fm900
1 vhf solaris
1 sea simba
1 tx815 27 mhz
1 icom 2200h
1 760xlt
1 uh088
1tx785
1 Apollo gold pager
2 small apollo pagers
1 wouxon 2/70
2 quanshengs
1 uniden desktop scanner

think that is all

[ziggybyrne]

simcco 9022uhf
icom 221 uhf
gme tx3800 uhf
icom r5 reciever
gme tx 6200 uhf
icom ic f60 uhf
simoco is probably the fav of the moment - all i need to do is learn how to program it for trunking.

Cheers Ziggybyrne

[Kevaclone]

New radios for my new boat's fit out
All GME marine in black
GX600D(dcs model),
GX300(27Mhz AM Marine + CB),
GX200(AM/FM/SW + VHF RX + connection for my 160gb iPod),
TX4600(UHF CB)

had some very nice antennas custom made by Mobile One, talked to one of the antenna designers and he build me one VHF(3db) one 27MHz and one UHF(7db), all the same length and diameter, going to use one of the GME diplexers on the 27Mhz ant for the GX200
These will all be mounted on a fold over rack above the hard top(if the guy ever finishes it)

Other gear on the boat at the moment
garmin GPSmap 420S GPS plotter/sounder
Eagle and JRC sounders
Why so many sounder?
the Garmin will just be used as GPS
and the JRC is better for fish finding
and the Eagle is better for depth finding at speed