I'll start. Here's the amateur (ham) radio station I have set up in my basement:
From left to right, I have...
...an MFJ antenna tuner so I can use my Windom Half-Square antenna on several different HF bands
...my Icom-718 HF transceiver. This is the radio I use to talk worldwide. I bought it brand new from a ham who had won it at a hamfest, so I got it for $100 below the retail price.
...a Tom Barrasso Iron City beer can from the early 90s. Go Pens!!
...behind the beer can, the blue box is a power supply
...on the far right, sitting on the matchbox, is my Radio Shack 2 meter transceiver. I need to work on it, since there is only one volume - all the way up.
The 2 meter antenna is a homemade dipole thumbtacked to the basement ceiling. I can hit all the local repeaters, even with a ground-level antenna.
The HF antenna, as I said, is a Windom half-square up about 10 meters from the ground. It works on all the HF bands from 40 m to 10 m, except 15 m. I'm thinking of building a 20 meter quarter wave vertical as well since the one at work gets out so well.
and can also simutaniously power the amp.
