I'm mostly a ragchewer, not a dx'er or contester. I sometimes work some of the 2- or 4-hour cw contests but that's about it.

Here's some of the radio equipment that I use:

Inside the shack
Icom IC-756 Pro II
Yaesu FT-897
Radio Shack Pro-2006 vhf/uhf scanner with the Optoscan OS-456 computer control interface
Ten Tec RX-320 computer controlled receiver
LDG Electronics FT-Meter for the FT-897
LDG Electronics AT-1000 automatic antenna tuner
LDG Electronics DWM-4 digital swr/wattmeter
MSC Smart Keyer III
Heil Gold Line microphone
Heil Proset/HC5 microphone/headset

Outside the shack
20 meter half-wave dipole
Diamond X-50 2m/uhf ground plane antenna

The main radio is an Icom IC-756 Pro II:

(Simulated display shown)

Here is a current photograph of the station. I use two 19" monitors with the computer which is incredibly useful. A couple of weeks ago I bought a replacement second monitor to take the place of an old one that failed. The new one was on sale for $200 and included free shipping. I ordered it from Dell Online at about 2100 one night, and it was delivered the very next day.

Current Station

The FT-897 (not shown) is used at home on two meters and 440mhz FM. It's also the radio I use on HF when we travel or when I take a notion to pack up an antenna and operate QRP portable from somewhere.

At 10 or 11 pounds the radio is too heavy for backpacking. My portable operation usually consists of trips to local parks or lakes where we spend the day. I just set up on a picnic table and operate until the juice runs out. I also have an external 12 volt source I can use when the internal batteries run down.

The RX-320 is used for general purpose shortwave listening. It's a neat little radio. I usually use N4PY's control software with it, but I've also written software for my Palm OS PDA to control it.