

I eventually bought or traded for all of the accessories, and had the external speaker, remote VFO, Antenna Tuner, and matching MC-50 microphone. It was obvious to me that Kenwood had applied what they knew about building high-end stereo equipment to the design of ham radio gear, and the result was a radio system which not only worked well, but looked good enough to live in the family room. After the Navy hitch, I moved to Pomona, California to attend California State Polytechnic University, and while there I sold the Swan and traded for a used Kenwood TS-520. I traded for it while I was in college, and then carried it through my travels while in the U. The first commercial transceiver I ever owned was a used Swan 350. But my absolute favorite was the Kenwood TS-830S.

Many radios came through the shop, and we fixed up and played with them all. There were the Kenwood Twins, a T-599 and R-599 pair that were beautiful, and worked when I sold them, but amazingly primitive in some ways.

There was the TS-930 that had been struck by lightning – a very major project, which resulted in a beautiful working transceiver. I worked at W4RT Electronics at the time, and because my good friend Bob Koerber (N4BK) and I enjoyed fixing things, we sought out some interesting older radios to fix up and put to use. Rotator Ham Radio Deluxe Rotator provides control for 15 popular models of antenna rotators.In the Mid 1990s, I had the opportunity to obtain and work with a number pieces of older amateur radio equipment. Ham Radio Deluxe Satellite Tracking provides satellite operations with rig control and Google Earth integration. Microsoft Access and MySQL are support with strong features for backup and recovery.ĭM-780 provides most popular sound card digital modes with direct integration to Ham Radio Deluxe Logbook. Ham Radio Deluxe Logbook provides QSO logging, DX cluster connectivity, callsign lookup, awards tracking (with integration to LOTW, eQSL, and Ham Radio ), and contesting. Ham Radio Deluxe Rig Control provides rig control through a richly featured full screen interface and other products in the Ham Radio Deluxe Suite via a direct connection or TCP/IP remote access. The five modules in the suite provide rig control, logging, digital communications, satellite tracking, and rotator control. Ham Radio Deluxe (HRD) is an integrated suite of software products for amateur radio. Publisher review for Ham Radio Deluxe 6.3.0.613:
