Stations Over The Years

This is the station shared by W5EQ (later K6VO) and WA5YMV (later K6NR) in Richardson, Texas, April 1970.  That's a Collins 75A2 recevier with a Heathkit HX20 SSB Exciter on top.  The amplifer and CW transmitter was a Viking Valiant modified by W5EQ to run about 400watts.  The station was located in the garage, which never housed cars.

This was the Irvine, California K6VO / WA6NGO station as of about 1972.  The station was a barefoot Galaxy GT550 - note the Drake W4 wattmeter lives on.  To the left of the GT550 is a frequency counter used for digital readout (with the help of a mixer circuit in the box below it).  To the right of the rig is a box with an audio filter and a box with a homebrew keyer.  The station was located in the garage in a little cuby hole that housed the furnace.  A table top was fashioned out of a sheet of plywood mounted against the 3 walls.

Station of K6VO/WA6NGO circa 1974.  Thats the "Kenwood Twins" - a R599 receiver and a T599 transmitter.  The SB200 was put together over WA6NGO's summer break from college.  Above the SB200 is a 2 meter radio built from a surplus transmitter and receiver.  The rotator turned something, but I don't recall for sure what - I believe it turned a homemade 2 meter beam located in the attic.  The house in Irvine, California was restricted by CC&Rs to "no antennas" and we had lots of good stuff in the attic.