Hi, new guy here, lurking around to see if this forum has stuff that's particularly interesting to me...
I'm a general class and have only been dabbling in HF a little bit as I have time. I'm into it mostly because I love collecting military equipment and my particular breed of radio is an absolute prize to me: a Harris PRC-138 (RF-5200). It's a waterproof, absurdly ruggedized HF manpack radio operating on all frequencies from 1.6-59.999 MHz, 20W output, frequency hopping (20 hops/s), ALE, an absurdly fast automatic tuner (to support ALE and hopping), multiple data modes integrated (39 tone, serial, FSK), and the ability to operate on USB, LSB, CW, AM, or WFM. It's a real monster of a radio to communicate with anybody that you have a coordinated communication plan with, but it's definitely not the best radio for contesting or just trying to find random contacts, as there is no VFO knob to quickly zip through frequencies.
I definitely way under-utilize this radio, but I'm trying to get involved with some more amateur radio groups in order to get me out and operating. Most definitely, I want to be working with digital modes as much as possible.