Hi, here is my story!  I was licensed in high school in 1950 under the call sign of W8HBR.  My first rig was a Johnson Viking I and my receiver was a Hallicrafters SX-43.  As I progress through the years I owned a Viking Ranger, Collins 75A2, Collins KWM1, Kenwood TS430D and now a Kenwood TS570D.  I obtained my extra class in the 70's and then changed my call to K8BM.  The linear in the photo is an Ameritron AL80B. 

My interest in ham radio has remained steady throughout the years.  Now I operate all bands 10 through 80 meters using the digi modes, ssb and sstv.  The antennas are a Mosley TA34XL with single elements on 17 and 24 meters and 4 elements on 10, 15 and 20 meters, and the Alpha Delta wire at 50 feet serves the 30, 40 and 80 meter bands.  My tower is 60ft high and .

QSLing these days is only through eQSL unless a paper card is received with a SASE.  Logs are kept on EQF software.  On sstv I use Easy Pal and MMSSTV and my computer interface is the MFJ-1275.    I have retained all my paper QSL cards dating back to 1950 and printed copies of all the eQSL's  I have received since using that service.

Mosley TA34XL-WARC
4 elements on 10, 15, 20 meters
Single element on 12 & 17 Meters

Station from the 1980's -
Collins KWM1 & Heathkit SB200

My site is under reconstruction due to Bravenet reducing the amount of free disc storage available.  Hopefully with in the next week or so the site will be completed.  Sorry for the delay!