My Radio Collection

I collect mainly Kenwood HT's. I have a few Motorola, ICOM and various Chinese ones too. Some of the models I own several units of them, multiple units per box and several boxes for the larger numbers. The storage boxes are sorted by model type. The model type is written on the end of the plastic storage box using a black Sharpie pen.

Many of the radios are UHF since that seems to be where the majority of the Ham digital voice activity is found. Not so much on VHF. In any case I do like to get both the UHF and VHF versions on the various models.

I'm currently looking for a good deal on a few Kenwood NX-1200DUK2 radios in like new, or new, condition to add to my collection.

I recently picked up an Air Band radio, an ICOM IC-A16. While some VHF radios have air band receive a special purpose radio would also include the transmit function too. Air band radios are AM only, so this one is rather unique in my collection.

I also just recently purchased some ICOM radios that do FM and dPMR digital, not to be confused with DMR, for the VHF and UHF bands. One of the dMPR radios was converted to NXDN by a repair center by accident when I sent it in for some repair work. They can't get the dPMR firmware from ICOM so they had to refund the cost of the repair. I used that money to purchase another dPMR radio of the same exact model from the same seller. I wanted at least two dPMR radios, UHF, that could talk to each other in digital mode to experiment with them.

I now have radios for the following digital modes: D-Star, DMR, P25, NXDN and dPMR. Nothing for System Fusion yet. Not really sure if I want to get one since that mode is specific to Yaesu radios. All the other digital modes are available from multiple manufactures.  

I was hoping to program the dPMR radios for dPMR446, BUT there are some differences between dPMR446 and dPMR that seems to render the two modes incompatible. This is based on my reading for the two ETSI standards. Looks like I might have to pay up and get an official dPMR446 radio even if they're limited to only 0.5 watts. I would like to get a Kenwood TK-3701D in that case. The radio appears to be based on the NX-1300 series radio. That means I likely can modify the radio and replace the crummy fixed antenna with a removable one by replacing the fixed antenna with the original design SMA socket the regular NX-1300's use. Then using the external antenna port I can use an external power amplifier to boost the power up to around 4 to 5 watts, more like a regular HT.

I have a spreadsheet I put together so I can remember which programming software is used for which radio. 

I also have separate folders for each radio model, and sub folders if more than one band split is available, for the code plugs for each one.

When I receive a used radio I try to save the original code plug. Part of the fun collecting these is trying to figure out who, or where, they were originally owned by or came from. One I figured out was used by the maintenance staff at a nuclear power station on the east coast. 

 Fairly current list of models I have:

Tri Band:
TH-D74A VHF/UHF tri-band analog/D-Star Digital (MARS/CAP mod)
UV-5X3 VHF/UHF tri-band
TH-350 VHF/UHF tri-band 128 channel

Dual Band:
TH-G71A VHF/UHF 200 channel (MARS/CAP mod)
TH-G71A VHF/UHF 200 channel (No mod's)
TH-79A VHF/UHF 80 channels xband repeat built in
UV-5R VHF/UHF 128 channel
D878UV VHF/UHF 4000 channel analog/DMR Digital
KG-UVD1P VHF/UHF 128 channel

Multi Band:
FT817 HF/VHF/UHF (MARS/CAP mod)

VHF:
TK-270G-1 VHF 128 channel
TK-2000 VHF 16 channel (International Version)
TK-2170-K VHF 128 channel
TK-2140-1 250 channel (European Version)
TK-2140 US version 250 channel
TK-2160 VHF 16 channel
TK-2360 VHF 16 channel
TK-2180 VHF 512 channel
TK-D200E VHF 512 Channel analog/DMR Digital
TK-D200EG VHF 512 Channel analog/DMR Digital
NX-200 VHF 512 channel analog/NXDN Digital
NX-200G VHF 512 channel analog/NXDN Digital
XPR6550 VHF 1000 Channel analog/DMR Digital
TK-5220-K VHF 512 channel analog/P25 Digital
IC-F3162DT VHF 512 channel analog/dPMR Digital
IC-A16 VHF Air-Band 200 Channel AM/FM (RX only NOAA)

UHF:
TK-370-1 UHF 32 channel
TK-370G-1 UHF 128 channel
BF-888S UHF 16 channel
TK-3170-E UHF 128 channel (European Version)
TK-3170-K UHF 128 channel
TK-3212L UHF 128 channel
TK-3212 UHF 128 channel
TK-3173-K UHF 128 channel
TK-3160-1 UHF 16 channel
TK-3200 UHF 2 channel
TK-3360-1 UHF 16 channel
TK-3140 UHF 250 channel
TK-3180-1 UHF 512 channel
TK-3180-2 UHF 512 channel
NX-300-K2 UHF 512 channel analog/NXDN Digital
NX-300G-K UHF 512 channel analog/NXDN Digital
NX-300G-K2 UHF 512 channel analog/NXDN Digital
NX-320-K UHF 260 channel analog/NXDN Digital
NX-320-K2 UHF 260 channel analog/NXDN Digital
IC-F4162DT UHF 512 channel analog/NXDN Digital
NX-411 UHF 512 channel analog/NXDN Digital
NX-1300DUK5 UHF 260 channel analog/DMR Digital
TK-D340U-K UHF 32 Channel analog/DMR Digital
TK-D340U-K2 UHF 32 Channel analog/DMR Digital
TK-D300E UHF 512 Channel analog/DMR Digital
TK-5320-K2 UHF 512 channel analog/P25 Digital
XPR6550 UHF1 1000 channel analog/DMR Digital
XPR6580 UHF 1000 channel analog/DMR Digital
IC-F4162DT UHF 512 channel analog/dPMR Digital
T5720 (Motorola FRS Radio)

Charger Collection:

These are the base units. I don't have the 120 VAC power supply for all of them.

KSC-25L
KSC-25
KSC-25 (Chinese Clone mod'ed with Anderson Power Pole Input)
KSC-16
KSC-23
KSC-35S
KSC-32
KSC-32 (Chinese Clone)
KSC-30
KSC-31
 Impress Motorola
EC1
BC-160

Various chargers for specific Chinese and non Chinese Ham radios.

 

Wow, that's impressive.