The first AM repeater. We were in one of six wire cages within the building, each with its own external doorway. - Aug., 1965
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Controller from another group - Aug., 1965 |
Looking over the valley from Mt. Chual. The building in the foreground was then the City of San Jose communications center - later taken over by Santa Clara County Communications - Nov., 1967 | 
The underbelly of the repeater controller built for the new WB6OQS FM system. Some of the wires shown had what looked like splices in shrink tubing. What was really inside the tubing was a diode for some of the logic. Strange to trouble shoot. - June, 1968
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The front of the system. Claude, WB6OUU, on the right. - June, 1968 | 
The back door of the rack. Each piece of equipment had a 25-pair phone cable that terminated on a strip on this door. All component interconnects were made on this door. Not suprisingly, this was designed by a fellow who worked for the phone company (Western Electric). June, 1968
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Outside the radio bunker on Mt. Chual. That's my red 1973 Corolla parked in front. You can see three of the individual cage doors here. There were three more doors on the other side of the building. Sept, 1974
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Working on the tower. Just to the left of the climbers were two GAM antennas, a 2-meter antenna and, hanging upside down, a 440 antenna. May, 1975 |
Aerial view of Mt. Chual. Loma Prieta is in the upper-left corner. 5/28/75
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Closer to Mt. Chual. 5/28/75 |
Closer yet. City bunker on the left, main bunker at the top, Cable TV relay site on the lower right. 5/28/75 | 
Inside the Mt. Chual bunker. One side of the building, as seen from our rack on the end, looking towards the far end. Cage walls had been removed between these three cages. 7/6/75
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The WB6OQS system rack that was completed in the summer of 1974. 7/6/75
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Rack closed and cover installed on 2-meter duplexor. 7/6/75 |
7/6/75
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Inside the vintage 1974 system. 7/6/75 |
7/6/75
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Primary control and patch boxes. 7/6/75 |
Back of the control system. 7/6/75
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Bill, WA6YBD, glad to see the ground after being up on the tower. July, 1975 |
Yea, I know it's blank
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Eats during one of those long "short trips" to the hill. Dec, 1975
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Our antennas mounted to a triagular structure beside the building - and blowing in the wind. 2/12/78
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2/12/78 |
The W6OTH-mobile on the ridge road. 2/12/78
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Oops - 2/12/78 |
ATV receiver on the side of the cabinett. 02/12/78
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ATV receive cavities. 02/12/78 |
2/12/78
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2/12/78 |
Tracy, W6OTH, at the controls. 2/12/78 | 
2/12/78
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The ridge road gate. 08/19/78
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08/19/78 |
Construction going on to the Mt. Chual building. 08/19/78
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New pad for the generator shed. 08/19/78 |
Looking down at the generator slab. 08/19/78 | 
Looking towards Monterey from the top of the building. 8/19/78
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Note that the center wire wall has been removed, a central beam put in place to replace the wire frame, and a solid wall across the room has been installed. 8/19/78
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8/19/78 |
8/19/78
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Cable trays in the "other half" of the building. 8/19/78 |
The IBM plantsite as seen from Mt. Chual. 08/26/78 | 
IBM's Santa Teresa (now Silicon Valley) Lab as seen from Mt. Chual. 8/26/78
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They're making progress on the generator shed. 08/26/78 | 
Working to remove our antennas from the triangular structure that will be removed to make way for a new tower. 8/26/78
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8/26/78
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8/26/78
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Attaching our antennas to the building structure itself. 8/26/78
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Bolt it down! 8/26/78
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09/03/78 |
09/03/78
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More progress on the generator room. 09/10/78 |
Looking down on Casa Loma Road. 9/10/78 | 
9/10/78
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Cable trays extending into "our" side of the building. 9/10/78
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That ridge road gate. Note the spikes to disuade ramming it with your car. 9/10/78 |
9/23/78
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9/23/78 |
The former door to the generator cage has been closed up. 9/23/78
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9/23/78 |
The door next to our rack is also closed. 9/23/78
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9/23/78 |
10/14/78
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10/14/78 |
New paint job for the building. 10/14/78
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The generator shed is complete. 10/14/78 |
Oops - new lights blocks our duplexor cover. 10/14/78
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A lot more light in the room, however. Bob Hill, Bill Melody, Doug Macheel working on stuff. 10/29/78 |
Yea, I know it's blank
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12/31/78
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12/31/78
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Video camera going in. 12/31/78 |
12/31/78
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Start of the new tower. 12/31/78 |
1/7/79
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Bill, WA6YBD. 1/7/79 |
Same as seen through the video camera. 1/7/79 | 
1/7/79
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Ron, up the tower. 1/7/79 | 
More tower parts in place. 1/20/79
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ATV downlink microwave antenna. 1/20/79
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1/20/79 |
1/20/79
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1/28/79 |
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Adjusting the ATV stuff. 1/28/79
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Brrr, it's cold out there. Feb, 79
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Feb, 79 |
Feb, 79
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Snowball fight. Feb, 1979 |