KØXB - Rick at Lake Vermilion, Minnesota USA

 Here is a collection of QSLs I have sent out over the years. Please take a look at Special QSLs too.

 

             

The silver and black card is from 1962. I thought it was pretty sharp.

When I got back on the air in 1970, I used a Heathkit HW-16 and windowsill vertical antenna.

 

                             

We moved to Minneapolis in 1977. By that time, I had upgraded to a Heathkit HW-101 and ground plane antenna on the roof. Later, I purchased a new Ten-Tec Omni C, Series D. I still use that rig as a back-up.

     

 

                      

I do not have a copy of my original WNØAPN novice QSL card, but these two cards with the guys carrying the canoe have the same picture. That’s me in the front.                            

 

                                   

Using an early Apple Macintosh computer, I made these home-brew cards. I still prefer a Mac to a PC, but virtually all ham radio software is written for a PC. So I use a PC in the shack.

 

                              

That’s me with the dark hair and big glasses. I am smiling in the card on the left, because I just got a new Ten-Tec Omni V.

 

               

That is a 1974 MGB/GT. I even had a 2 meter rig in it.

We moved to New Mexico in 1993. What a beautiful place to live!

 

                   

When we moved back to Minneapolis in 1998, I found a photo of my 1962 station.

Yellow “classic” card.

 

        

The view from our deck on Lake Vermilion.

Yellow classic card version 2.

 

I took this picture of the moon one cold, clear night.

 

 

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