I am in Pennington County, grid EN18ub, Minnesota
These pages are meant to document ham radio activities at my current QTH. I have held 3 different callsigns since moving here in 1983: WA9HFO (which I was issued in 1964), NZ0R (1987-1996) and W0RX (1996-Present). With a young family, and the usual young finances to go with it, I started my ham radio adventure here by reassembling, and rebuilding, my novice station, which had been mostly unused since I graduated high school in 1967. When I finished, it looked like this:
I believe this picture was taken in 1985 or 86, after I had moved my station from our crowded trailer to a pole shed on the farm. The station consisted of my pride and joy, a Drake 2-B receiver along with my rebuilt Hallicrafters HT-40 and Heathkit HG-10 VFO. On the top shelf is a MFJ antenna tuner along with a homebrew 811a linear amplifier. I also rebuilt the amp onto two chassis, separating the power supply from the RFdeck. My callsign at this point was still WA9HFO. My orignal antennae, when still opera