This is the Beaverton, OR, shack of Bob Culter, N7FKI.   (16Dec08, 5:30Z)

 
This station is shared by Bob's XYL Terry, KA7VAF.   It's been a while since she has been active.

I first met Bob when we worked together in the old Display Device Development group at Tektronix in the late 1960s.   Bob had been an active experimenter singe high school days and got a ham ticket in the 70s sometime.   The above photo shows Bob's shack in December of 2008.

This is a closer shot of the operating position.   An Icom IC-7000 sits on the shelf, along with Bob's main listening receiver, a Sony commercial/military grade instrument.   The blue panel in the foreground is the MOSFET based "zero power receiver" (a.k.a., crystal set) that Bob described in QST for January, 2007.

This is a closer view of the receiver, along with a recent addition, a second high Q ferrite rod resonator.   The dual section capacitor that tunes the right hand inductor is configured in the popular "Tuggle" circuit.   A tunable trap (not shown) can be inserted in the antenna lead.   Bob is hearing some amazing DX with this receiver with no more than a 30 foot wire as an antenna.

This is Bob's lab.   He builds and measures all kinds of things here, often well beyond the limits of our normal ham gear.

 Bob has his QRP/Minimalist moments and this is the latest effort in that direction.   It is a CW transceiver using but one transistor.

This shot shows a 20 meter SSB station that Bob designed and used in Field Day for 2007.