You'll notice in these photos that some things don't change. The middle two photos show the Kent dual paddles that I've been using for about 20 years, and also the Heathkit digital clock that I built around 1985 or 1986. I'm not sure why these two items are not in the top photo. I must have been trying to make the station look neat for the photo.

All of the stations were set up on the same table I'm using now. The following photos are in order, from the oldest to the newest.

This station is the OMNI VI that I bought in 1993. Over the years that I owned it I had it upgraded several times. The first upgrade was to have the crystal oven installed for the crystal oscillator, then I had that replaced with the TXCO, and the last thing was to have it upgraded to the Option 3 level which gave it the functionality of the OMNI VI Plus.

I'm not sure where the computer is. Maybe it is sitting on the table on the opposite wall from the station.

There's the computer! I traded the OMNI VI to Ten Tec for a Jupiter, and some months later I bought an Orion from the first production run but I didn't keep it very long. It looks like I swapped the Shure 444D microphone for a Heil Gold Line microphone. I have a boom to hold the microphone but apparently it wasn't in use at the time of this photo. Also not shown is the AL-811H amplifier which I'm sure is sitting just to the left of the shelf.

So now the Orion is gone and I'm back to just the Jupiter. Apparently I swapped the Ten Tec 238 manual antenna tuner for an LDG Electronics AT-1000 auto tuner. It looks like I also swapped the Heil Gold line microphone for a Heil Proset/HC5. I still have the Gold Line. The Yaesu FT-817 that had been sitting on top of the OMNI can now be seen sitting on top of the rotator controller. Notice the remote tuning pod next to the computer keyboard. If you operate a Ten Tec radio then get one of these. It's great!