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Here is a random assortment of pictures from contests, antenna work, and a bunch of other stuff.  Some of these show older versions of station; you can follow our station design theory as it evolved over the years.

 

This is a fairly recent photo of the shack.  Note the switching and band decoder boxes to the right; those have since been upgraded.  All of the monitors are now flatpanels.
The machine to the right is running the N0HI (then K1KAA) AR-Cluster node.  The machine to the left was running some strange version of DXatlas.  These two monitors made so much noise on the high bands that they stayed off for the entire season until they were replaced in 2008.
Blake, W1IM works on the W1KK 4-811A amplifier.  One of the tubes didn't want to light, and Blake was the only one who could figure out how to fix it.
This is me (then K1KAA) working some QSO party.  This must have been around 2003 or so, since it is the first appearance of the red homebrew band decoder and SO2R switch boxes.  This is in the upstairs shack.
Andrew (No Call) working at the run station sometime around 2005.  This is the first appearance of the BIG 4-811A amplifier.  Looks like he's having fun, so it must be working!
This is a temporary spot/multiplier station we had set up for a while.  Yes, that is a 486 with a black and white monitor (one of K1TTT's old ones, at that)!
The band and antenna switch was a "brute force mechanism" for a long time here.  To change bands, simply disconnect and reconnect to another barrel!  This was replaced in 2007.
Luxurious basement operating positions at N0HI (then K1KAA).  Where else can you cook dinner, watch the score, and check your waveform?
My first attempt at SO2R, before we all got good enough to do decent multi-ops.  No amplifiers - barefoot 100W on the run and the mult.
While we did mostly multi-ops downstairs in the basement (or "the chamber" as it has become known), I kept a shack upstairs for doing single op day-to-day and SO2R contesting.  This is it in all of its cluttered glory.
The first shack at the new QTH.  One antenna, one radio, one computer that ran Win98.  There was even an old DOS machine for telnet connections.  This shack would later become the "upstairs shack", seen above.
This may have been one of my first contests.  NE1C at K1TTT for WPX SSB.  Not sure on the year, but the 486 machine dates it a few years at least.