WB2FHS

    Circa 1970         

Here are two photographs of my early station located in Sauquoit, NY.  

The first shows the equipment I used right after I received my General Class License.  Note the Ameco AC1 Transmitter, DX60B Transmitter, Knight Kit VFO (which earned me a letter from the FCC forwarded from the Canadian DOC for out of band signals), SX-71 Receiver, Heath Twoer (Novices in 1969 could operate on 2 Meters.  The AM crowd hung out on 145.35 MHz) and Raytheon CB Radio.  The antenna was every piece of wire I could find strung out across the back yard.  The DX60B worked so well that I was able to check into SSB nets with only an occasional comment made that I had a bit of carrier on the signal.

The next photo shows the Eico 753 (Eico 7-Drifty-3)rig that I used for many years.  Most of my operating time in 1970 and 1971 was spent handling messages (traffic) in nets.  The large box above the 753 (and below the Heath Twoer) is a Motorola 5V, 2 Meter FM Transceiver that was crystaled for 146.94 MHz simplex and 146.34/146.94 MHz repeater operation.  I also had a P33BAM "portable" 2 Meter rig that had been used on a railroad.  (Note the copy of 73 Magazine next to the globe)  Antenna was a 135 Ft Inverted V for HF and a 10 Element Beam Antenna for 2 Meters.