WØRDO

I have several other radios in my collection. Some are older and some are much newer. One of the older units is a Radio Shack HTX-242 transceiver (shown below). It is strictly FM and was purchased somewhere back around 1996. We actually had a Radio Shack store (The Solutions Store) in Vinton owned and operated by fellow amateurs Rick & Betsy Hadley. Rick gave me my novice exam back in January of 1978. His call at that time was WAØFYG and he now holds the call WØFG. Rick & Betsy currently reside in Decorah, IA.

Shown above is an old GE Ericsson D2HHG4 VHF mobile used by the Benton County Law Enforcement for years. When narrow band FM came in, out went several of these radios and a local ham managed to acquire them and reprogram them for use on the amateur bands. However, the microprocessor in it failed so the radio was parted out & I moved on.

A little more modern VHF-UHF FM Transceiver shown below:

The above unit, a Alinco DR-735T is a dual band VHF-UHF FM transceiver purchased new from Ham Radio Outlet of Texas in late August of 2016. The radio has a detachable control head which I have made use of in the shack by mounting the radio to the wall and having the control head sitting on a shelf.

Shown directly below this text is the QYT-8900R Tri-Band FM transceiver. It has 2 meters, 1.25 meters and 70 centimeters. Purchased new in late February 2019 to be used to replace my aging Yaesu 220 MHz rig I was very disappointed in the receiver sensitivity. Stations that I was hearing full quieting on the old Yaesu were noisy on the QYT. Fortunately it was less than $100 to buy it so it was worth a shot. There are not many 220 rigs out there on the market now days.

Shown directly above is the Yaesu FT  FT-311RM that I was planning on replacing with the QYT radio.