Biography

Wanted pre 1965 coins. Please contact me at ai4frATai4fr.com if you have any for sale.

On September 16th 2025 I hit 250,000 QSO's in the log book. Thank you to GM0NAI for being my 250K contact.

Thank you for stopping by. I became an official ham on August 10, 1993 and was issued the call KE4ECY. Then I made the move to extra class on August 12, 2003 and again was issued a sequential call sign of AI4FR.

IMPORTANT: If we have worked before, please stop by to say hello again even if we have a number of QSO's on the same band and mode. I enjoy every QSO and really appreciate you taking the time to stop by even if it's just for a signal report. Plus I am always experimenting so PLEASE PLEASE inform me of any issues with my transmitted signal. I will not bite your head off but rather will be most grateful to you for taking the time to do so.

If we are in a QSO and you are reading this then lets talk about our hobbies as they may be the same. Mine include the outdoors, coin collecting, firearms, classic cars, farm life, and restoring tube radios. If nothing there peaks your interest then please introduce me to your hobbies. You never know, maybe I will be able to add to the list above after our QSO. I also enjoy military history and collecting military items from the civil war to Vietnam. This goes without saying the honor it is to be able to talk with any veteran. Thank you again for my freedoms.

Antennas = Not much more then a wire tossed out the window or some thing up in a tree. Actually, according to the woke ARRL that wire self identifies as a 200 foot high monster all band yagi. Isn't "diversity" GREAT!! For those in the real world all wire antennas were installed with an air cannon from my wheelchair. For HF(160 - 17m) I use a 270' OCF dipole up 30' and on occasion a 102' G5RV also up about 30 feet, an A99(17m - 10M) up about 35 feet at the feed point, A Par OA-50(6m) up 10 feet. For VHF I have a Diamond X50A(2m and 70cm) up 10 feet.

Operation = 160 meters through 23cm using all modes including DMR(TG 1776), DSTAR(XLX817 B) & Fusion(YSF56123 USA - AMERICA). The reflectors shown prior are very quiet so please stop by and give me a call. Chances are it'll be just you and I in there. Truth be told I am just getting into DSTAR and Fusion and am looking for a home. Any suggestions?


I upload the logbook to eQSL, LOTW, HRDlog, HamQTH(unlimited callsign look up's), QRZ(no more), and Club Log weekly. Please send an SASE for paper QSL's.

The ARRL has gone WOKE! They speak of pronouns, Diversity, Inclusion and Equity(DIE). Yet they segregate hams by calling us OM verses YL and XYL. Maybe the ARRL can kindly explain the gender of a male PL259 vs the female PL259 if the male PL259 believes it is a female PL259. How about I identify as a life member of the ARRL. Will the ARRL be so diverse and inclusive with my delusion to grant me all such rights and privileges that come with life membership? NO they will not. So now I see the ARRL as WAS/WERE. My membership in this WOKE organization expires in Nov. 2022 and it will not be renewed until the ARRL reverses course and apologizes to its membership. I will also not participate in any ARRL events, contests, field day, scholarship programs, etc. It would be nice if the ARRL would just stick to radio and not promote mentally ill beliefs that change from day to day. Feelings do not apply the same to everyone but facts do. Hence there are but two genders. EDIT: Here we are one year later(2-17-23) and the ARRL has not granted me life membership even though I self identify as such. This is proof positive that they only desire one type of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity. Maybe tomorrow I'll self identify as the owner of the ARRL. Any guesses on how inclusive they'll be to that?
Woke = A state of awareness only achieved by those dumb enough to find injustice in everything except their own behavior.
DEI = Didn't Earn It. It's how to fix a flat tire by letting the air out of the other three.

Is this why the ARRL is now charging for the printed version of QST?

Did you know that the ARRL CEO recently received a $100,000 a year pay increase? Did you also know that the CEO of the ARRL now has an anual salary of $315,000 plus benifits?

https://www.kb6nu.com/the-arrl-elections-this-year-are-a-sham/



Clubs I am a member of.

10-10 = 74192 Ten-Ten International
30MDG = 8923 30 Meter Digital Group
AGB = 2311 Activity Group of Belarus
ARS = 2255 Adventure Radio Society
BCS = 1008 Belgium Club SSTV
BDM = 5790 Belgium Digital Modes Club
CDG = 1861 CROATIAN DIGITAL GROUP
CFO = 1050 Chicken Fat Operators
CTC = 1.693 Croatian Telegraphy Club
DMC = 469 Digital Modes Club
DMR = 3103932 DMR ID (not a club)
EPC = 123 European PSK Club deer11
ERC = 2085 European ROS club
Feld Hell = FH 223 Feld Hell Club
FISTS = 11184 FISTS club
FPQRP = 1377 Flying Pigs QRP Club
FT4DMC = 1058 FT4 Digital Mode Club
FT8DMC = 3184 FT8 Digital Mode Club
INDEXA = 4106 International DX Assoc.
MQFD = N/A Monthly QRP Field Day Group
NA1KW = 6 North American Kilowatt Club
NAQCC = 630 North American QRP CW Club
NDG = 2923 Natal Digital Group http://www.ndg.qsl.br
NEQRP = 664 New England QRP club
NorCal QRP = N/A NorCAL QRP Club
OBRC = 777 Old Buzzards Radio Club
OMISS = 5105 OM International Sideband Soceity
OTW = OM248 Oceans of The world
PODXS = 2604 PODXS 070 Club
QRP ARCI = 12733 QRP Amateur Radio Club International
QRPp-I = N/A QRPp International
RAGCHEW = 475 Ragchewers club Tampa Florida
RCC = 43 Rag Chewer's Club (part of the SPAR club)
SIX = 2375 SIX METER WORLD WIDE SIX CLUB
SKCC = 2041 Straight Key Century Club
SMIRK = 6631 Six Meters International Radio Klub
SOC = 704 Second class operators
SPAR = N/A Society for the Preservation of Amateur Radio
SUNCOAST = 2107HC Sun-Coast Chapter 10-10 International
YB6_DXC = 1027 YB6_DXC Digital Modes


I'm a Volunteer Examiner Coordinator with the W5YI VEC program and an ARRL accredited VEC.
I also hold an FCC issued General Mobile Radio Service(GMRS) call sign which is WRFC981.

DMR radio is on, call anytime 3103932.

Operating awards = many many thousands with none hanging on the shack walls including the many numbered awards such as 001.

Contest awards = When I turn in a contest log I inform the judges that if I win they are to pass my award along to the next ham in line. Still though some have slipped by and now sit in a desk drawer.

Profile pic: My 1965 Corvette Stingray. If there ever was something more fun than amateur radio...

I get my QSL cards from KB3IFH. (Not an affiliate link) He simply does an amazing job with fast service.

Thank you once again for stopping by and I'll be looking forward to the next time we meet.


73, John

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