Biography

I have been a Ham for over 40 years. I was first licensed in Wichita Falls, TX. But was never able to operate there. One year later I retired from The Air Force and then went to Japan to work. I worked at Camp Zama, Japan. Since I had my novice license I was able to apply for what the military called an AMRS license, Aux Military Radio Station. At that time, 1980, there was no reciprocal license with Japan. The FCC reserved the KA 2 X 2 calls for the personnel working for the Government in Japan. I chose KA2CC as my call sign. Needless to say old timers knew of this arrangement, the KA 2X2's were in Japan. But as time went by, there were less and less KA's operating in Japan, and during the late '80's Japan started issuing reciprocal license. And about that time the FCC issued KA1 2X2 to people in the States. Needless to say I had fun with that call when contacted from new hams in the States calling CQ DX. A search of the FCC data base shows only the KA1 prefix being issued, all other call sign districts still reserved for U.S. Government employee or military in Japan. I was able to operate from Minami Torishima as KA2CC/JD1m, and it was recognized as a legitimate DX operation.

The QRZCQ log only shows the log from my current location. I have 6 DXCC awards, along with 6 WAS's. Plus other wall paper certificates.

I use EQSL, AG status. If you are not AG status I will not QSL. Only AG status cards are recognized for most awards. Please, if you are not AG status, please change.

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Gap Titan, wires all over the place!
Ic-7300
IC 7200
IC 746 Pro
Omni 7
All the other equipment needed to clutter the desk.