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Left side: Computer and monitor for radio control, digital modes and logging.
Center: Upper left is a motorola MaxTrac 900 MHz rig.
Next is my bread and butter rig, an Icom IC7000.
Next to that is is my KK7UQ sound board digital interface for PSK and other digital modes.
At top is a pair of switches, one to switch the digital interface to one of three rigs, the other to switch my MFJ paddle (lower center or straight key) to one of the three rigs.
Right Side: To right of center is my Icom IC706 MKIIG with a 120-500MHz SWR-wattmeter on top.
To the far right is my Yaesu FT817 QRP rig and my Yaesu FT60 dual band HT.
Below the HT is an MFJ-1700C antenna switch to choose among the G5RV, G5RVJr, 300 ft. horizontal loop or Butternut Vertical.
Lower level: On left, is SEC 1223 DC power supply and home-brew volt/ammeter atop an MFJ-969 tuner for the 300 ft. loop.
In the center are two MFJ-949C tuners for the G5RVs and an MFJ-971 for the Butternut Vertical.
On the right are my MFJ CW paddle and an old Speed-X straight key, my favorite.
Barely visible is a DC to AC converter connected to a heavy duty battery outside the window.
Antennas: I have nearly all wire antennas and not installed according to “the rules” but they work well. The 300ft. loop is made of #22 teflon-coated hookup wire and is just passed through the branches of the trees in my back yard, roughly as a square and fed directly to the MFJ-969 tuner with 450-ohm window line. Works great.
The G5RV is strung about 25 feet off the ground with the feeder sprawling across the sky to my window.
The G5RV Jr is roughly an inverted V with the 450-ohm line coming directly into one of the MFJ-949C tuners.
I have a dual-band vetical for 144 and 440 and a PC board 5-element Yagi for 900MHz, both mounted on a 2" PVC pipe guyed with clothsline rope!
The good news is that it all works. I’ve had some really neat DX and lots of rag chewing with just 100 watts with CW, PSK and other digital modes and SSB. And my wife thinks it looks fairly neat!
I’ve been a Ham since about 1957 and this is by far the best setup I have ever had.
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