Cool Ham Radio images

Some cool Ham Radio images:

SST T-1 Antenna Tuner

Image by kc7fys
That logo–do you remember it from The Minutemen, Husker Du, and early Dinosaur Jr. records? It used to be Greg Ginn’s dad’s ham radio company, Solid State Transistors. Weirdly, this is notable to me.

“Alaska Backpacker Extreme”

Image by AA7JC
I had to sell some ham radio equipment to afford this bugger.

.50 caliber revolver with some style! The CorBon 440 grain hardcast bullets are the size of an "AA" battery and with a velocity of over 1600FPS, It would be like getting hit with a bowling ball.

This is a special edition of the Smith&Wesson 500 with four inch barrel for my future backpacking trip in the Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness (in Montana).

Those are reflections inside the cylinder, not bullets.

Oh, Dont get the wrong idea…
I am at peace with bears…
… as long as they don’t want a piece of me!

Storm damage

Image by Paul L McCord Jr
Storm damage to W5QO’s ham radio tower on July 16, 2009.