My Short Wave Listening Station

Yes it's me... I just turned 16 a bit before this picture was taken, My first pay check bought my self this DX-160 short-wave receiver from Radio Shack, I use to spend a lot of hours listening to Radio Moscow, Radio Canada, Voice of America, and other short wave stations as well as many hams rag chewing on the ham bands. The VOM meter you see is the first kit I ever put together, and the brown PC board is a digital clock kit. Back in 1975 a digital clock was very new! Cost me over $100.oo of my hard earned cash, every pay check I'd buy another bad of transistors or resistors and put it together as I could afford. Today this clock still runs, now it still stands high in my ham shack... Yes there is a Morse code key/buzzer that I bought too, but never really got into it that much at the time. Later bought a CB, but never got real heavy into it... Later I got out of radios when I started trucking, then got married, and radio was long forgotten other then having a CB in the truck... Then one day Gisele bought me a CB for the pickup... "you can talk to your trucker friends from your pickup" she said, She restarted a old fire... I installed that CB, next thing I was making a dipole antenna for the old 23 channel CB had, next thing you knew I was string wire up and listing to my old child hood DX-160 again... Next thing I was listening to tapes playing Morse Code and became VE6PAW... Now I'm a mess! some days Gisele wished she did spark me off by buying me that CB for Christmas... Below is not my first CB lic, but one of the early lic...