Essential Accessories for Ham Radio Operators
Find a variety of accessories to enhance your amateur radio station, from antenna switches and keyers to radio controllers and digital voice hotspots.
Amateur radio operators often enhance their stations with a wide array of accessories, moving beyond the basic transceiver to optimize performance and expand operating capabilities. These additions can improve signal reception, streamline antenna management, or add new digital modes to a station. Careful selection of accessories helps hams tailor their setup for specific activities, whether it's chasing DX, contesting, or casual QSOs on various bands.
This category covers various hardware accessories that complement a ham radio station. Operators can find insights into selecting antennas, such as Yagi designs, or reviews of remote coax switches like the Ameritron RCS-10 for managing multiple arrays. Other resources detail specialized equipment like the DVMEGA for digital voice modes, or the CTR2-Mini radio controller, which provides advanced control for modern transceivers, including FlexRadio models.
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Review of the Ameritron 8 Antenna Remote Coax Switch with SO-239 connectors on 120V -
Bencher Tech Notes: Selecting your next yagi -
Choosing the right antenna for you, by Lewis G. McCoy W1ICP -
Review of Logikey K-5 Keyer -
This page is dedicated to amassing information on the Tentec/Globe Wireless RX-321/RX321 -
CTR2-Mini is a small radio controller based on the Seeed Studios Wio Terminal. It can control many radios including FlexRadio 6000s. Multiple Minis can be used to control multiple slices on the Flex. It also has a special mode that allows two CTR2-Minis to control the Main and Sub VFOs on the FTdx101. An article on CTR2-Mini appears in the September 2022 issue of QST. -
The Swiss army knife for Digital Voice, the DVMEGA radio is basically a complete D-Star and DMR compatible hotspot