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Kevin D. Dalton

Madison 25130
United States, WV

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Last update:2023-07-23 12:52:48
Continent:NA
Views:161
Main prefix:K
Class:EXTRA
Federal state:WV
US county:Boone
Latitude:38.0625000
Longitude:-81.7916667
Locator:EM98CB
DXCC Zone:291
ITU Zone:8
CQ Zone:5
ULS record:3762839
Issued:2015-12-12

QSL dataUp to date!

Last update:2023-07-23 12:50:34
eQSL QSL:no
Bureau QSL:YES
Direct QSL:YES
LoTW QSL:YES
Extra QSL Info:direct

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Hello all and welcome to my small corner of the web. Name here is Kevin I go by a couple of nicknames Big D, Doc or Calvin. I live in a small coal mining town of Madison, the county seat of Boone County West Virginia. I was born and raised just up the road in a smaller town called Uneeda, named after the Nabisco Biscuit Co Uneeda crackers. I am married for 26 years to a young lady I met in junior high school. We married in 1995. We have no children except for our three fur babies Charlie is a weenie/beagle mix, Mia I was told is part weenie . I don’t believe it. There might have been a weenie dog in the room somewhere lol and there is Ginger a blond lab mix. The one thing that they all have in common is they all are rescues.



When I was a child, I was introduced to ham radio by my next door neighbor’s son. He was a ham and also a member of the Civil Air Patrol. They took me to his house and he showed me his set up; all those green glowing boxes. I was very young and didn’t understand what all was going on. In junior high school, I joined the Civil Air Patrol and that is when I met Tony W8NAM, through his son, Steve King. When I was in the sixth grade, I met Fred Bell who was a Vietnam vet and he carried a 35 mm camera everywhere he went; he even played soft ball with it on his shoulder. He was always taking photos of us kids playing and he would bring in photos he took in the war and showed them to the class nothing gory. So that started my love of photography. That is how I met James K8MIA, now a Silent Key, in June of 2018. James was an avid photographer and he worked at our local Radio Shack and a big friendship came from that. We would travel all over the state taking photos. He was very well into ham radio, and he worked mainly CW. He started working with me and I just couldn’t put all those dits and dahs all together; just couldn’t get it and still don’t without the help of computers. James was a disabled vet and suffered a lot from his experience in the war. We would sit for hours and talk either photography or ham radio. He would sit and take his pipe lighter and peck out words and letters in CW trying to get me to learn it. Lol. March of 2003, I took the big step and got my technician ticket and James was my very first ham radio contact from a radio he gave me. My call was KC8WDL. I kept that call till 2016. That is when I got the call K8KDD. In 2017, I finally took the next step and upgraded to general.As of June 2023 I up graded to Extra after sever attempts over the past several years



My primary radio is an Icom 718. I run it into a G5RV with a Hiel Por 7 head set and in my truck, (I have a 2018 Ford F150) a Yeasu Ft8900 I will be installing this summer.

I have worked the past 30 in EMS and In the Emergency room at the state’s largest cardiac hospital in the state and retired with 18 yrs. of service as a 911 dispatcher. And finally a lifetime member of the Danville VFD.

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