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So our primary HF set is A YAESU FT1000MP MARK V. This is shipped in straight from JAPAN.I wanted the 200 watt version , and so went to the source and had this work of art shipped in straight from the source. These are still one of the finest radios ever produced containg dual VFO's. As well as one of the first DSPinstantiation. The mix of Digital and analog mastery is simply a masterpiece of engineering of legendary proportions. The amount of R and D time that went into to these radios is off the charts. The dsp unit is the size of most car trancievers. I am all about the big well made beast of a unit radios this Era was responsible for. When imI'coming out of pocket i want what i paid for. the  next acquisition to our stationcas a side by side will be the 9000 contest of the same Era. I appreciate the time and investment made by YAESUS engineers on these units.

So this is our first radio we owned. It's a vertical all around unit. Capabilities from 0 to 6ghz. A well rounded sweet of applications. Ranging from tools to my personal favorite close call feature. Which by the way I run around the clock. I have a personal intrest of particular pepeculiariti. Which is sub 20khz frequency monitoring around My station. But all in all this is a great unit. I have some extensible field plans for usage coming up here in the White Stripes with the unit dash mounted. Again using the close call as its primary use. I have found the lna and vga to be exceptionally sensitive. I can tune in anything i want with distinct differences through thier adjustment to my receptive selectivity. This is an all around great unit for most station usage.

So this is a work in progress. We are in the process of converting this over to a tetrode board converted Command HF 1250. We will also be adding in some protection circuits to this as well. This is going to be a fun piece of equipment, but most importantly an awesome project moving forward. I look forward to breaking into this project soon and getting it straightened out.

I have bought 4 SDR dongles and 2 dab tuners for a specialized spectrum monitor project to develop a cheap monitoring solution. These are all reciever dongles but are great little pieces of kit for 0 to 2ghz usage.

So I use this patriot Waves ODYSSEY DUAL TRUNKING TCXO SDR RADIO  (2x RTL2832U+R820T2 - TCXO) for SDR TRUNK. it's a great little device all neatly packaged for your scanner needs. And all for a fair kit asking of 60 bucks. I recommend you check them out if your into sdr trunked scanning.

We picked up this great Antenna matching vintage kit on ebay. The price was unbeatable as the variabales alone were worth the asking price. This is a solid proper piece of kit which will be in use for years to come. Thanks again to whomever decided to let this go....