Biography

I was first licensed as a teenager in 1975 as WB1AGB which was a mouthful to say as well as send in CW. After earning my Extra in 1978 I tried for a 1x2 vanity callsign but my mailed application missed by a day or so and I received AA1D. I had some great pileups at first, until QST published the news that 2x1 calls were new US prefixes. In the mid 1990s I applied again for a 1x2 and received K1UK, which remains to this day. "Kiss One Ugly Kid" (yes, I'm the ugly kid)

I thought about yet another callsign change to KA1SS which was my dad's US Army callsign while in the Signal Corps in the Philippines during WWII. I was thinking of that because we lost him to Covid-19 and he was instrumental in my adventure into amateur radio.

Currently, I live near the state capitol of NH but my roots are from the North Country of NH where I spent many years of my youth on my grandparent's family farm. That's where I learned to look down while walking!

I have been blessed by God in many ways but mostly my XYL and my career. As much as I love my work, I'm just one winning Powerball lottery ticket away from retirement!

My station currently consists of a Kenwood TS-890S into an Ameritron ALS-600 HF amplifier and a Kenwood TS-2000 as my VHF/UHF rig as well as my backup HF rig. My antennas are an end-fed long wire from MyAntennas.com (highly recommend it) and for VHF/UHF I use a Comet CX-333.

It would be nice to put up a tower and a Yagi, but... alas...

Good DX, God bless, happy trails, stay safe, and I hope we cross paths someday (if we haven't already)!

73,

Dave - K1UK

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Equipment

My station currently consists of a Kenwood TS-890S into an Ameritron ALS-600 HF amplifier and a Kenwood TS-2000 as my VHF/UHF rig as well as my backup HF rig. My antennas are an end-fed long wire from MyAntennas.com (highly recommend it) and for VHF/UHF I use a Comet CX-333.

It would be nice to put up a tower and a Yagi, but... alas...