K7DER Station setup and QSL Cards
of Mike McCrackin



Unfortunately, I can’t scan my card right now so you’ll have to make do with an original.
I did use a computer to generate the card but I can’t figure out how to send you the digital
image.

I’m not including a picture of my ham shack because I’m still working on it and the mess
I call my current shack is not worth looking at. I just moved up here to Montana and
haven’t finished putting together my gear. I use an ICOM 706 sitting on a card table.

In a few weeks I’ll have something more interesting to look at. I’m putting together a
recreation of my old Novice and early General Class stations, complete with "boatanchor"
rigs from the 1950s and 1960s. I’ll send you a photo when I get things put together properly.
The equipment will include early RME and Harvey-Wells rigs, as well as some classic Hallicrafters.

The photo on my QSL card is actually one of me taken when I was about 18 months old.
The military surplus receiver belonged to my Dad (who wasn’t a ham at the time) and
I was really listening to signals being received by the rig. I guess I had NSG blood in my
veins even at that time.

I was in the Navy for only one hitch from 1968 to 1972. After training at Corry Field,
Pensacola, Florida. I served at Sidi Yahia, Morocco; Bremerhaven, Germany;
and Hakata, Japan. I also served aboard two Destroyer Escorts, the USS Thomas J. Gary,
DER-326 and the USS Calcaterra, DER-390. I ended up with the rank of CTR2.



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