March, 1967: Concrete arrives for the Ham Shack slab.
Terry watches as his dad Richard and Stan pour the footing.
Richard and Stan trowel the mud.
Satisfied Stan surveys the scene.
Framing of the walls and joists is finished.
Richard and Stan’s dad, WA6BLK, finish the shingling.
The new Ham Shack is wrapped and ready for stucco.
Stan and Richard apply the scratch coat.
The multi-band high-frequency folded dipole is up.
Inverted V antennas for 40 and 80 meters are installed.
Coverage is continuous from 3 to 30 MHz including the WARC bands.
Bundled transmission lines carry the signals back and forth…
…through the attic…
…out of the ceiling and down the wall…
…and into the antenna selector switch.
The folded dipole is ninety feet in length.
A random-length long wire antenna is stretched above the house.
Details of the random-length long-wire antenna’s design.
The Novice station incorporated a U.S. Navy RBC receiver during 1967-68.
A closer view of the RBC WW II surplus receiver, covering 3 to 30 megahertz.
Stan’s 1967 homebrew transmitter used a 6146B vacuum tube.
The Johnson Valley General/Extra Class operating position, 1968 and beyond.
The Hallicrafters Model SR-400 Cyclone 80-10-meter transceiver.
The beginnings of a QSL (confirmation) card collection.
A portion of the antenna farm, including the CCD 40-20-meter dipole.
The vhf station includes digital mode capabilities.
Various antennæ have come and gone over the years.
The snowfall of February, 1968.
A ten-meter Gizmotchy beam antenna.
Originally designed for 11 meters at the fifty-foot level, we recut it for 10.
Now barely twelve feet off the ground, it continues to function well.
The Sierra Madre station in 1968.
The Bighorn Mountains form an impressive backdrop.
The Kenwood TS140-S station before it was stolen during a burglary.
The current Yaesu FT-950 station.
Dixie, N6TOH and Stan, AA6SC.
