VE3CNU is back baby, we’re back! (Ok soon).
After being completely inactive as a ham for something like 15 years and three moves, I think I’m going to buy myself a new HF rig and get back into the hobby. Let me check the sunspot cycle to see if its a good time… awww shucks! My timing couldn’t be worse, could it? The absolute bottom. That sucks! Oh well.
VE3CNU is my call-sign, and I’m going to blog and video my new station as I set it up. It appears the regulations have changed a little bit since I went silent so I have to scratch back up on the regs.
Since I have decided to rekindle an old hobby in shortwave listening and HAM radio, I thought I’d post a before and after photo of the "shack".
This is the before. I basically dug out my old radios and put them on a table. 
So what do we have here? From left to right:
- An old Dell laptop (single core) with a dead display, thus the LCD monitor sitting on it.
- A Realistic DX-150A receiver. Worth about $10 on eBay.
- Yupiteru scanner.
- Uniden Trunk-tracker scanner.
- Yaesu FT-530 dual band VHF/UHF transceiver.
- Realistic Pro-2026 scanner
- ICOM IC-27H VHF transceiver
- Kantronics KPC3
- ICOM IC-725 HF transceiver
- MFJ-949D antenna tuner.
- Realistic Pro-58 scanner.
- Straight key for morse.
- 12V power supply.
Watch for some big changes to come. Rumor has it a nice big ICOM IC756 Pro is going to find a home here! Come back real soon for updates!
I hear the DX-150A went back to the basement already? Isn’t there an AX-190 receiver is that spot now?