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ft840: ham HF transceiver This is my favourite HF transceiver FT840 from Yaesu with maximum output power of 100W. Most of the time the FT840 is used for doing CW, very rarely SSB. My QTH is Basel (locator JN37tn).
My CW paddle from Bencher. The paddle is used together with an electronic memory keyer ETM9COG-X3 (not shown on picture). My favourite CW speed is around 100-120bpm (20-25wpm). CW paddle
ft100: ham transceiver This is my FT100 from Yaesu with a maximum output power of 100W on HF, 50/35W on VHF/UHF, respectively. The FT100 is used as my 2m/70cm base station. For expeditions and holidays the ft100 is used as HF station (80m, 40m, 20m and 17m) together with a G5RV antenna.
This is my magnetic loop antenna AMA13 from Käferlein electronics. The loop has a diameter of 80cm, the gain of the antenna is 1.7dBi. The AMA13 antenna can be tuned on 80m, 40m, 20m, 17m, 15m to a reasonable SWR, most of the time I am working on 40m, 20m, or 17m. HF magnetic loop antenna
Notebook Notebook from Fujitsu Siemens with a 600MHz Intel PentiumIII processor, 256MB RAM, only 10GB Harddisk, ESS Maestro 3 soundcard, operating system is Win98se. The soundcard of the notebook is used for the following digital modes: PSK31, Throb or RTTY. My Echolink node number is 54513.

My VX5R UHF/VHF handy from Yaesu, used for portable operation on 2m/70cm bands. Maximum output power is 5W.

And at the right hand side my 2m/70cm antenna X50N from Diamond, length is 1.7m, gain on 2m is 4.5dBi, gain on 70cm is 7.2dBi.

VHF/UHF handy UHF/VHF antenna
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