Nick-is that a laptop he's typing on?

I had a Ham buddy W7KTI- SK that had his entire basement ( about 30' X 28') hamshack wall papered with QSL cards, even the ceiling!!!
He loved to contest.

I managed to pick up a few very old QSL cards from another ham's estate that were PRE-WW2 from Japanese hams and one from the US Aircraft Carrier Langley before it had the flight deck fully modified.
I literally pulled them out of a trash can.
There is some real radio history I managed to save.

She sure looks please to have radio stuff in the living area and to have it on camera too

Someone had a drawer full of 20s/30s cards at Dayton last year, I think it was. They were semi organised but all you could do was flip thru them to hunt. I have considered having cards made up in vintage style but have not gotten around to it. Please, no round tuits in the message box! Thanks.

I think that shack was on the second floor or the attic due to the sloping roof. I was looking to see if he had worked W1AW but I don't see it.

Those were the good ol' days. Back in my youth, before becoming a HAM, I shot skip on 11 meters often, and traded lots of QSL's, which inevitably became a goodly amount of wallpaper, like that pic. Then Dad figured out what I was up to, with his citizens band license, and he could clearly see the distances involved were waaaay over the 150 mile limit. Never saw those QSL's again...