Yes, I need to create a better photo.

Top Row - The Drake Twins. R-4B receiver and T-4XB transmitter. This was my first rig. Purchased in 1976 when I was first licensed, it was my primary rig until I started to experience problems with the transmitter a few years ago. The rig comes equipped for the 80, 40, 20, 15 meter bands and 500 kHz of 10 meter. I did add a crystal to allow additional segments of that band so now it covers 28.000 to 29.000 MHz. Both the transmitter and receiver are "hybrid" - consisting of both transistors and vacuum tubes. Yes, the D-104 microphone is mated to the T-4XB.

Yaesu FT-902DM. I've had this one for a couple of years now. The receiver is 100% solid state and transmitter is all solid state except for the driver stage (12BY7) and the PA (a pair of 6146's). So, unlike the newer all solid state rigs, the driver stage is tuned. The PA has to be tuned and dipped. Also for the receiver, preselector tuning is included. The rig is entirely self-contained, even to the power supply. I use this rig primarily on 17 meter phone for casual rag-chewing. The microphone is the stock handheld. I've gotten pretty good audio reports on it though so I suspect I'll not try to do anything different. The rig suffers a slight frequency drift in a downward direction. It's consistent over all bands and is more pronounced until it's had a chance to warm up well. I suspect it to be a temperature compensating problem in the main VFO circuitry. That will be a future repair project. For now, I simply allow sufficient warm up time.

Middle Row - The Kenwood TS-2000. This is now my primary rig allowing me to operate on all bands and modes from 80 meters to 2 meters. A lot of my operation is QRP (5 watts or less) and on the digital modes. The Heil Goldline microphone is mated to this rig. Since this photo was taken, I have mounted the Heil on a adjustable boom. Heil does offer such a mount but after considering the cost, I found a better alternative. At one of the office supply stores I found a desk lamp with exactly the kind of boom I wanted. It even looks a lot like the "professional" booms. Cost? Under $10.00. It clamps to the back edge of the shelf and is fully adjustable position wise. See the photo below.

Before adding the boom mount, the desk top was rather crowded! Still not the roomiest, but it's much better. I can actually manage to put the keys where I can use them and sill have room for the pad of paper.

To the left of the Kenwood is my Icom IC-T8A three band handheld. Covers 6, and 2 meters, and 70 cm band.

To the right of the Kenwood is a Drake WH7 wattmeter. All rigs are wired to pass through this meter for monitoring power out and antenna SWR.

To the right setting on top of the Drake MS-4 speaker and power supply is a DenTron Super Tuner. Currently nothing is attached to this tuner, though it has been in the Drake line in the past with earlier antenna systems. Future considerations are for a wire loop of some sort for the lower bands, perhaps fed with ladder line. No firm ideas yet.

Bottom Row - Barely visible to the left is an Alinco DR-MO6 6 meter, 10 watt, FM only transceiver. This rig is coupled to a homemade Ringo vertical about 25 feet (at the base) high. This radio spends a lot of time monitoring the 6 meter FM calling frequency of 52.525 MHz and is a good indicator of openings on that band. A lot of grid squares have been worked on that radio during openings.

Directly behind the keyboard is a homemade CW keyer. This is used with the Drake. Right before that, but hardly distinguishable is a reproduction J-38 style straight key. Yes, I have used it on occasion though I'm not that good with it. Not enough practice.

The next key is my Bencher BY-1 iambic key. That one is used on the Kenwood. I can and have, plugged it into the external keyer and used it with the Drake.

Behind the Bencher key is a power supply for 13.8 volt equipment. Currently only the Alinco 6 meter rig is using it. To the far right is a SEC 25 amp. power supply to power the Kenwood.

Oh yes, other items. A MFJ 24 hour digital clock (left of the R-4B) tells me the current UTC time. The computer at the other end of the keyboard is a homebrew Celeron 550 MHz running Windows 2000 Server. The computer is interfaced to the Kenwood and in addition to performing network duties for the computer system here, it hosts various digital mode software applications, my logging program and remote control software allowing me to operate the digital modes remotely from another part of the house.