Now for the Hammy side---On the left is my UHF/VHF stack. All radios are by Alinco and are all in the exact same chassis. Each radio is a mono bander. One for 2 meters one for 220Mhz and the last is 440Mhz. Alinco model numbers DR-135,235,435. All have there separate antennas. There are no duel band antennas in this system although the Yaesu 897 and the Icom 706 have duel band antennas for the UHF/VHF sides. The 897 and the 706 can be switched between my Imax-2000 and my homemade 140 foot V-Dopole. The Yaesu 920 I use exclusively on the HF Ham bands. The only antenna available to this radio is the dipole which is down now from bad weather. It sits under the snow and cant be retrieved until spring. The mic is a Behringer B-1 condenser mic This mic will pick up an ant walking across your carpet from 60 feet away. You have to make sure your shack is dead quite when using this mic. Even better would be to cover your shack in that acoustic sound absorbing material but that gets expensive. Skip here today is dead i hope it picks by Saturday. I hope to hear you in the DX fest!!!
I like the 920 also but the 897 and the Alincos come in a close second. I thought I would not like the Alincos because of there low cost but once I bought the first one I could not get the second two fast enough!! There a real nice radio for there price and the mic is very heavy duty and loud! Everybody says these Alincos are the loudest radios they hear me on. I've heard trash about them but I've seen none of that just excellent radios!!
