The M1NER shack has the following radios.
- icom IC-705 – HF, VHF &UHF all mode QRP transceiver
- Kenwood TH-D75 handheld
- Baofeng DM-1701 DMR running OpenGD77 firmware
- Yaesu FTM-400DXE – 2M and 70CM mobile installed in my 2005 Mini Cooper S R53
- Yaesu FT-290R – 1980’s portable QRP 2M with FM, SSB and CW – needs repair
- Quansheng UV-K5(8) running the F4HWN firmware
- Motorola GM340 + Raspberry Pi 4 running Direwolf for the M1NER-1 APRS digipeater
- WPSD based duplex MMDVM multimode hotspot
- SDRplay RSPdx
Antennas
- 2m & 70cm Comet GP-3 Co-linear – Gain (dB): 4.5/7.2
- Buddipole (40m – 10m HF)
- Homebrew 2m & 4m Slim-Jim for portable operations
- 2m/70cm mobile whip for my car
- HW-20HP – Covers bands – 20, 17, 15, 12, 10 & 6m, no ATU, no traps, no losses. More info here.
I also have a lot of vintage computers at home. More on that here – Andy’s Retro Computing Collection