Extra Class
9BWAS on 160, 80, 40, 30, 20, 17, 15, 12, 10
WAS modes: CW, SSB, PSK31, RTTY, Hell, JT65, JT9, FT4 & FT8
275 DXCC... and counting
All <100w on homebrew dipoles & verticals
I've been a ham radio operator since 1972, when my "Elmer," Roy (WA2SLO), nursed me through the Novice exam and the Morse Code test of five words per minute. Whew! Two years later my buddy Mike (WA2DLN) and I went down to Varick Street in lower Manhattan (near where the Twin Towers once stood) and passed our General Class exams. That was just about one of the best days of my life; what a feeling of accomplishment. In 1978 (the week after I passed the test for my broadcast First Class ticket which began my dozen years in broadcasting) I went back to Varick Street and passed the Advanced Class exam. I was VERY active for the next few years but then, as the schoolyard poem goes "first came love, then came marriage, then the baby carriage." In 2007, after pretty much being QRT for a number of years things settled down enough so I could get back into the hobby. And I found that while ham radio has changed in many ways - I had a ball with these digital modes - the basic idea hasn't; it still comes down to meeting great people who share a passion for communicating with RF.
Over the years I have experimented with a number of dipoles and verticals for the HF bands. I currently operate with these two - a ten meter dipole (in green) and a home-brew hybrid dipole (for 80-10) and vertical for 160m, which has been very successful (WAS & over 100 entities) on the Gentlemen's band. Read the whole Norse Saga of its design and construction HERE.
Speaking of the baby carriage, my daughter Jennifer (the little girl in that carriage) passed her Technician exam in February 2010 to become KB1TSU. Just six months later she passed her General and we could not have been prouder, especially after she Worked All States on CW!
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