The WA8PYR Radio Shack
© 2006 by Tom Swisher WA8PYR
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Photo 1: The overall view.
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Photo 2: (left to right)
Top shelf left - Alinco 6m FM rig, Yaesu FT2400 2m FM rig, Motorola Radius
GM300
Top shelf middle - Pro2067, Pro2050, Pro48
Top shelf right - two BC780s and a Pro-2035
The Motorola GM300 is dedicated to railroad road channel monitoring, the Pro2067 to the Pickaway County and Grove City 800 MHz systems, the Pro-48 xtal scanner for 2m ham scanning, and the Pro2050 is a Trunker data radio. The top BC780 monitors fire/EMS and milair for 3 counties in any direction, the middle BC780 monitors all area trunked systems, and the Pro2035 is dedicated to milair (mostly the Buckeye/Brush Creek MOA and midair refueling) in combination with Probe v7 software.
Middle shelf - RV-4 remote VFO for the Drake TR-4 transceiver; Kenwood TS700A 2m all-mode; center tuning/s-meter, Tone Finder and CE232 interface for the Pro2004; PolyComm-6 6m AM transceiver.
Bottom shelf - Pro2006 used for railroad (mostly yard channel) monitoring, Pro2004 used for milair monitoring.
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Photo 3: (left to right)
Top shelf - GE M-PA 900 MHz handheld (for ham use); BC235 (rarely used
anymore)
Middle shelf - Drake MS-4 speaker; Drake SPR-4 SW receiver (mostly used for monitoring 11175 usb); Drake R-8 SW receiver; Drake TR-7 transceiver with matching MS7 speaker.
Bottom shelf - QRP-Plus transceiver (partly hidden by the laptop); Drake T-4X/R-4 twins; Drake MS-4 speaker for the twins.
Far right - Stuffed toy seal; MFJ artificial ground; Drake TR-4 transceiver; Drake MN2000 matching network.
I've had the stuffed toy seal since I was 2; he watches over the shack quietly and never says a word (his callsign is S3AL). The sailboat mobile over his head was a birthday present when I was 10.
Took me many years to build up this collection, starting with the Drake Twins given me by my grandfather (ex-WA8PYR) when I got my Novice ticket in 1980. It's not the latest and greatest, but it suits my needs nicely.