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Jim Keller

Dunedin 34698
United States, FL

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Call data

Previous call:W4WWJ
Last update:2018-05-03 15:05:26
Continent:NA
Views:249
Main prefix:K
Class:EXTRA
Federal state:FL
US county:Pinellas
Latitude:28.0596780
Longitude:-82.7676700
Locator:EL88OB
IOTA:NA-034
DXCC Zone:291
ITU Zone:8
CQ Zone:5
Website:www.aa0no.com
ULS record:3919441
Issued:2017-05-12

QSL data

Last update:2018-05-03 15:01:56
eQSL QSL:YES
Bureau QSL:no
Direct QSL:YES
LoTW QSL:no

Biography

Thanks for looking me up . My foot print is very small compared to the size the earth. I retired to Dunedin Florida USA several years ago. As you see I live in a Mobile Home retirement community, with 500 plus neighbors. My foot print is 50 feet wide by 100 foot deep. So all my antennas have to fit in this area. My ground elevation is a mere 35 feet above sea level. which helps with the ground wave . So most of all my contacts are from a 43 foot vertical antenna 32 ground wires .
Hello dear friends & welcome, my name is "Jim" I'm 70 years old, on air since 1984, I live near ClearWater Florida on the West coast, the city is called Dunedin I'm 35 feet above sea level. I'm about 1/4 mile from the Gulf of Mexico ? I'm active of 160 to 6m, in SSB, CW, Hellschreiber, PSK, RTTY, JT65, JT9. ? My rigs, Flex-3000 Flex SDR-1000 , also ;. On 2 meter and 440 I run Icom ID-5100 with Dstar using a closed loop system with a Raspberry Pi and DV-Mega board, when on RF I use a Hometek model HTEK combo beam single coax feed.Also run Fusion with a Yaesu FTM 400DR, Microphone are, Audio Techninica , Heil HM-12 ,Icom SM-8, Icom HM-151 and a Icom SM-30. And the amp is an Ameritron AL-811H amplifier , ZeroFive Vertical antenna 13.106 meters tall 43 foot ground mounted, W5GI Mystery Ant, or G5RV full size. On 6 Meter I run a Cushcraft AR-6 vertical. No interface or USB on The Flex I run Virtual Audio from the rigs, with HRD and DM 780. For 220 Mhz I use Icom IC-37A and a 10 element Beam on a different rotor .
All Coax is LMR 400 or 9913 , All antenna have Alpha Delta Surge Protectors.

For the Mobil I run a Icom ID-880H 2 meter 440 along with Dstar.
Every thing I need to operate is at my fingers here in my compact station. I live in a Mobile Home Park with a small lot but all works great for me. We do what it takes to make it work that's why we are Ham's. l am Still building and putting my station together , how about you? I believe that a station never gets finished because it grows like the operator. A station is only as effective as its antenna system. My QTH got smaller antennas are now hidden in trees. But if your looking me up I guess the radio and antenna's are working. Been a ham for about 30 plus years.
And what started all this was a pair soup cans and the string from Cub Scouts then came a Fox Hole WWII receiver in a Cigar Box. That's what started me in the world of receiving combination.

Please don't forget our Native American's for their help in WW II . They were called the Wind Talkers , they saved a lot for GI's lives through radio commutations with their native tongue.

Equipment

RIGS I NOW RUN

Apache Labs Anan 100 HF 6-160 METER SDR
Flex 5000a
Flex-3000
Ten Tec Omni VII
Icom IC-7100 all mod
YAESU IC-7100 COMPLET STATION IN A BOX...
Yaesu FT-950
Icom IC-80AD UHF VHF + DSTAR Raspberry pi
Icom IC-37A 220
Icom IC-F6061D NXDN
YAESU FTM 400DR UHF VHF + FUSION
YAESU FTM 1OODR HRI 200 WIRES-X ROOM 28386
antenna Vertices 43 Foot ground mounted by ZERO FIVE
32 grounding wires for counter poise....
W5GI wire ant, HEX BEAM

  

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