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The Early Years

The pictures below show my amateur radio station during the late 50's and early 60's. All of the equipment utilized vacuum tubes. By today's standards, the equipment was not very reliable, but I performed all of the maintenance to keep it running.
 
 

My amateur radio station (K4OAP) and laboratory in 1964 during my senior year in high school. There are hundreds of vacuum tubes in that equipment!
My amateur radio station (K4OAP) and laboratory in 1963 during my junior year in high school. 
My amateur radio station (K4OAP) and laboratory in 1959. I was in the 7th grade, just getting started, and have been generating EMI ever since!

 
 

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