Lots of kit I don't use.
Not any more!I have been systematically working through all the radio kit that I owned and selling most of it.
A common feature of Ham Radio is that we buy equipment that we don't really need. We see something and think, that's nice, next thing you know a courier has left it on the doorstep.
Late night bidding on Ebay: You can end up with two Icom IC-705s!
I took a long hard look at all the equipment. Stuff had to go!
I had a huge collection of Morse keys, duplicate radios, both in function and Make/Model.
We recently rebuilt our bungalow and once we had moved back and I had set up the shack I decided to buy one more radio and sell most of the others.
What I have now looks like this:
My main radio for CW and SSB is a Yaesu FTdx3000.
For digital and uplink satellite a Yaesu FT-991A.
For downlink satellite and portable (That I will never do again) an Icom IC-705.
Two HTs, Icom ID-51 and ID-31. These paired were my first satellite station. I keep them for sentimental reason and they might be useful if the SHTF. They use the same battery as the IC-705.
Two 30 amp switch mode PSUs.
An MFJ power distribution board.
A Watson VHF/UHF cross pointer swr meter.
A Comet 300 manual ATU with cross pointer swr meter.
I like to see meter needles moving when I transmit.
A Nano VNA.
An MFJ-259D antenna analyser.
Uni-T digital multi meter, and another one just because.
A Kent single paddle Morse key.
A Heil headset.
A home brew PTT footswitch.
The shack computer is a Lenovo SFF, core I7, 16 Gigs of RAM and a 120 Gig SSD hooked up to two 1080p screens. It's running Ubuntu 26:04LTS.
I also have a Lenovo Laptop. I5, 8 Gigs of ram, 64 Gigs of SSD. This one runs Mint Cinnamon.
I have arthritis in my fingers so I use a Logitech trackball. There is an open source app for Logitech pointers. A rolled up towel acts as a wrist support.
Pi Zero2W, headless, running HamClock and I access it via it's web page server.
Pi 3B running DigiPi, APRS but I don't really have a use.
Another Pi 3B as a ADSB feed.
An RTL-SDR V4.
The main antenna for HF is a ZS6BKW.
A non resonant long wire.
2/70 Yagi turned by a cheap rotator.
6 metre T2LT.
A discone.
I have a couple of Duplexers, that are really Diplexers, so I don't have to switch antennas, it all works seamlessly depending on the band I am using.
Best Wishes
Ron
G4LMN