Biography

Be sure to navigate to my website http://www.n4mqu.com/ . Do you have a telescope and a amateur radio license or are interested in both? Check out Astronomy Meets Amateur Radio.

I am the team leader for the Five County VE Team. Be sure to find the nearest Free VE Testing session near you. https://www.laurelvec.com/

Back in the late 70’s I was attending an astronomy event with telescopes set up in a rural area in Virginia. My friend needed to call his home and at this time there were no cell phones like we have now. There was a ham that was attending the star party and he pulled his HT out and made the call. I was impressed. Using my friend and his brother as elmer’s (The Wright brothers Don and Jerry) I learned Morse Code and received my novice license. That’s right it took two people to get me up to speed. A job opportunity moved me to Raleigh where I eventually upgraded to General, Advanced and now Extra class license. Upon moving to a home in Angier, I had to put up an antenna. My landlords 12 year old son volunteered to climb the tree to put up the antenna. It turns out he is now a ham because apparently he was impressed by the hobby. I had lost touch with the family until I had met him on the radio. He remembered listening to the rebroadcasts of the space shuttle that the hams were doing at the time. I enjoy many different operating modes in amateur radio. I enjoy checking into the Virginia Fone Net and my number is 72. I am the net control station for the 4pm net Wednesday. This net is held each evening at 7:30 PM and 4:00 PM on 3.947 MHz. I am also a member of Bandhoppers and a net control station. My number is 19. Bandhoppers merges social media and ham radio to encourage operating on different modes. We have a regular net on various frequencies on Thursday night.

I usually monitor the Carolina 440 repeater , the JARS 147.270 and either 146.52 or 146.58 simplex frequency. I am also interested in medal detecting and listening to the scanner . I also enjoy photography and use a Cannon T5i camera.