Arie van Bezooijen’s (PE1AJ) shack photo
Several months ago, we conducted a shack photo contest sponsored by Universal Radio. I’m posting all of your excellent photos as time allows and putting them under the tag, shack photos.
The following is the second set of ten photos along with any notes that were included.
Click on images to enlarge and enjoy:
Rajesh Chandwani, VU2OEC
Notes:
?My radio shack has radio from two generations, that is, my father’s tube radio, viz., Murphy TAO 776 MARK II. My father, Mr. P. R. Chandwani, also a Shortwave Listener, purchased Murphy Radio in Summer of 1971.
I used to see him install wire antenna between to bamboo poles or mesh antenna in our room for shorwave signals. I love this old murphy radio. I carried on further the legacy of radio listening till 2005 and then got my Ham ticket. My radio shack also have state-of-the-art technology radios, like, Kenwood TS-590s and Grundig Satellit 800 Millennium. Overall, it is the love for radio, experience of years & years of listening works out. Even after becoming ham, I still indulge in Shortwave Listening, AM Bands and FM Dxing. It is a lot of fun. My 14 year old son, viz., Chittaranjan too some time takes interest in radio technology.
?73?
Rajesh Chandwani, VU2OEC
Gurgaon (Haryana)
INDIA
Moshe Ze’ev Zaharia
Notes:
I actually have two favorite listening posts, as seen in the following pictures:
In the first you can see the Ben-Gal Duet Stereo, Tube radio with record player. The Ben-Gal covers Shortwave in 3 overlap bands continues from about 2MHz up to about 23MHz, it has an RF stage and it is very sensitive. Above are (from left to right): the Sangean ATS909, Tecsun S2000, and Philips 90AL765.
In the second picture is the Ben-Gal Verdi. In contrast to the Duet Stereo, it lacks the RF stage, but 15 meters of wire as an antenna compensate for that. I like to lay down on the sofa, in the dark, spin the dial on this radio while gazing the green light of the EM84 tuning tube.
Best Regards,
Moshe Ze’ev Zaharia
Be’er Sheva
Israel
Elwood Downey, WB0OEW
Notes:
Main rig at this time is Elecraft KX3, both on-air and SWL. I also still have my Knight Kit Star Roamer I built in 1970 to which I added a BFO but it is not in the photo. Ham interests include antennas, building and digital modes. SWL interests include WX FAX, utility and military.
Thanks for a great website.
73, Elwood
Tucson Arizona
Gregory
Notes:
Here is my Tecsun PL-600. My other toys include UHF-walkie and RTL-SDR, and that’s it for now. I was laying in my mother-in-law’s garden, in evening twilight, and this very friendly stray cat came and jumped on me to listen 20m hams too.
Best regards,
Greg,
Yekaterinburg Russia
Dan Robinson
Dan Robinson sits in front of his “main stack” of receivers in his basement shack in Potomac, MD.
The former VOA correspondent currently runs, from top to bottom, a RFT EKD-515, McKay Dymek DR33-C6, JRC NRD-301A, Drake R7A/RV75, Eddystone 6200, JRC NRD-515. Just behind Dan, you find a Drake R8, SONY ICF-6800W, and a Kenwood R-2000, while not seen behind this veteran DX’er is a NRD-545. Dan notes that the receivers shown constitute only about half of his collection.
In his “back room” he has everything from a Panasonic RF-9000 and Grundig Sat 650, to an R-390A and JRC NRD-93.
David Self, K8SSN
Primary radio is a Flex 3000 and a secondary FT900. Location is Hamilton, Ohio.
Satyan, VU3MES
Notes:
Top is my ham radio equipment and bottom shelf is for my JRC NRD92 – 35 years young.
Art van Esch, VK4GO
Notes:
I am a ham since 1963 was born in The Netherlands, moving to Australia in 1980. I am active on the short wave bands.
Regards de Art VK4GO
Queensland, Australia
Anthony Bueron
Notes: Hello, my name is Anthony Bueron from the Philippines. Here is a photo of my shortwave radio. Thanks!
Francisc Grünberg, YO4PX
Notes:
My name is Francisc Grünberg, a radio ham with the call sign YO4PX. I live in Constanta, Romania. More about me and my ham radio activities and publications may be found on my QRZ.com page at https://www.qrz.com/db/yo4px
From there you may see that I was a short-wave listener for 17 years because of the discrimination of the former communist authorities, before obtaining my transmitter license in 1980.
I am a writer, a journalist and a professional certified and sworn translator for 4 languages. I am also my own webmaster at http://yo4px.blogspot.ro where more than 850 articles (translations and own writings) were published in the last 6 years.
A picture of me in my shack is attached.
The gear I am using is presented on my QRZ.com page.
My postal address is also there, but I repeat it:
Grünberg Francisc
Constanta, Romania
Again, many thanks to all who sent in their listening post photos. I absolutely love the variety!
Follow the tag Shack Photos for more!
Two weeks ago, through a radio preservation group, I met the son of Heathkit product designer of the 1950s-70s, Stu Sizer––”stylist, artist, maker of models, bon vivant.” His son described the discovery of a few vintage Heathkit brochures, photos, and illustrations his father kept in his family’s basement shop, many of which had been scanned at some point.
