THE SHACK THAT WAS, IS BACK!!
Well, After several months, 4 photo software programs, and a lot of diligent dust/scratch/spot replacements I'm finished with the small image of my shack, and it's never looked so good.
I had taken 4, perhaps 5 different shots with my equipment changes and set next to each other (like the usual shot I show from a 35mm film strip in the upper left corner on each post). The one I picked to work on had my two favorite base stations: 1. E.F. Johnson 124 AM, and 2. Midland 13-880B AM/SSB.
The Johnson had excellent adjacent channel rejection, while the Midland sucked at that, but it did give me my first taste of SSB at a low price. Why Johnson didn't come out with an AM/SSB base was, and still is, beyond me. They were bullish enough to offer a 2ch Sideband only mobile in the early 60's, followed by 3 23ch am/ssb mobiles (I bought the E.F.J. 352D), followed by 2 40ch mobiles: the 4730 with the old style mechanical type channel selector, which made it hard to figure out what channel you were on, with 40 little numbers crammed on the dial, and not long after, the 4740 which had a 2-digit readout (in red lit numbers).
The more I think about it, the more I wonder why they didn't do (at the least) a 40ch base station. After all, a base radio was the mobile PCB put in a big box, along with a power supply, and perhaps a clock and a couple large meters.
I'm well behind in reviews, thanks to health issues, but since I finished the my adjustments to the photo I figured I'd put it up on here today, before the new President Washington arrives, and absorbs any and all free time.
So, here's to 1970-1971, and my current shack at that time!
At that time I still had my RS TRC-100 5w/6ch walkie-talkie and TRC-101 23ch walkie-talkie. I think I'd taken my Antenna Specialist Super Magnum antenna off the pole and put an Avanti Astro-Plane in its place. Apparently I hadn't purchased a Turner Super Sidekick at the time this photo was taken either.
73, enjoy the photo, and the year!
Woody
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