Primary Station
- Yaesu FT 950 Transceiver
- SPE Expert 1K-FA Amplifier
- ICE 419B six position bandpass transceiving filter for HF
Auxiliary Station
- Yaesu FT 897 Transceiver
- Ameritron ALS-600 Amplifier
- MFJ Versa Tuner V
Audio
- Heil PK781 Microphone (shared)
- W2IHY 8 Band Audio Equalizer (shared)
- NCS Multi-RX™ "Receive Console"
Software
- MacLogger DX
- DX ToolBox OSX Radio Propagation
- 3D Weather Globe and Weather Deluxe
- Seasonality Core (Weather)
- xQuake (Seismic, Volcano, Tornado)
- Blue Planet (Screen Saver with Grey Line)
- Google Earth (DXCC and Log Plots)
- Tweetings
- Signal Scope (Audio)
Portable: Stay Tuned!
- Elecraft KX3 w/ stock microphone (previously Yaesu FT-817)
- Pigtail (WiFi dongle) & HamLog (Ver. 4.0)
- iPad
- Chill Pill compact speakers
- Yaesu VX-7R
- Youkits FG01 antenna analyzer
- Buddipole
Portable Dream List
- Otter Defense Case
- 144/440 Yagi
Antenna Systems
- HEX Beam (5 HF Band)
- DX Blaster Cage Inverted Vee (75 meters)
- DX Blaster Cage Inverted Vee (40 meters, TBA)
- Long Wire (80 - 10 meters)
- ICE, Ltd. Ground Blocks with Coaxial and Open Wire lightning arrestors
- Comprehensive ground system (Four 3' ground rods located at physical ground point of antennas and two 9' rods coupled together)
Auxiliary Power
- Goal Zero Yeti 1250 Solar Generator Kit (beta)
- PowerSafe SBS 170F
- Miscellaneous rechargeable barriers and solar panels
- No fuel systems
Main Pulley System (5 Band HEX)
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5 HF Band HEX Beam, suspended 45' from tree limb
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| HEX Beam rotates manually |
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| This antenna has been replaced by a DX Blaster Cage |
Secondary Pulley System (Cage, Long Wire)
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| Second pulley system at 50' |




