Portable rig

  Am carrying a Yaesu FT817nd now as part of my gear and it seems like a great piece of equipment, I traveled from Japan to San Diego to go through some special trainning here and the class is in firefightning and water survival on the ship. The radio was always checked in the airport but unlike one other person who mentioned his was stolen, Mine went only 2 security checks. The first and last was in Fukuoka and Osaka Japan. They pulled it from the suitcase travel bag and reinstalled after the x-ray exams. I also carry a Icom 730 and a Yaesu FT5200r dual bander. This is an older unit but still has the codes for the different bands or repeaters.

While I was overseas I listened to alot of shortwave bands as well as Ham, and you could normally find me on the weather decks with the Sony7600gr or the Yaesu FT817nd doing this and I usually carry a sony cassette recorder for the programs I heard. I will post some of those in my blogs and also on my Facebook page soon. 73 to all and remember the airwaves are and always will be there for the world to hear and play with.