Equipment

Main Station

• Kenwood TS-590SG transceiver 160m – 6m
• Inverted-L antenna approximately 34 metres long, 7 metres high, coax-fed through a home-made 4:1 Un:Un
• Wouxun KG-UVD1P VHF/UHF handheld
• Home-made 2m/70cm off-centre-fed sleeve dipole per W7LPN

Other

• Yaesu FT-857D transceiver 160m – 70cm
• Yaesu FT-757GXII HF transceiver
• LDG Z-11Pro II auto tuner
• Dentron Jr. Monitor manual tuner
• SignaLink USB digital soundcard
• Yaesu VX-170 2m handheld
• Yaesu FRG-8800 receiver with VHF module
• foldingantennas.com 5-band folding hexbeam (goes up on special occasions of rare DX or contests)

SOTA

• Yaesu FT-857D transceiver (usually 10w output)
• 5000mAh LiPo 4S battery, with bridge rectifier to drop voltage per VK2QR
• SOTAbeams “Band Hopper 4” link dipole for 80-40-30-20m (sometimes with the 80m legs removed to reduce weight), also ok on 15 and 10m
• coaxial-cable sleeve dipole vertical for 2m
• SOTA pole 7m telescopic antenna pole

Mobile

• Yaesu FT-7800 dual band VHF/UHF FM transceiver
• Dual band VHF/UHF vertical, fender-mounted
• when HF is required, either of the Yaesu transceivers is used with a set of helical whips for 80/40/20/15m mounted on a tow-bar bicycle rack.