Biography

I live in the middle of nowheresville, tucked up in the crown Maine on the St. Johns River, across which is Canada, so I am half of both countries. I run a 100 acre grain farm and have live in a very beautiful place. I enjoy the radio because in the dead of winter I can chat with people all over the world. It is a terrific amount of fun. I have only a butternut vertical,an inverted V for 160 and 20 meters, a mag loop and a Cb antenna. I have two different stations in the house, on in the living room and the other in my shop using two icom 735's. I recently got a 818Nd from Yaesu which is great fun, I lug it around and the mag loop to the fields and to the park on the river down the road. I like QRP trying to do more with less, it keeps the load light and though i probably cut my contact amounts short, that is never my objective. When the conditions are good 2.5 watts will do just fine. On the Icoms I run barefoot. It is all great fun and i have met some very nice people over the years. I am also the inventer and seller of the famous Kitano Key. Ham radio is like life,i take an interest in exploring it even though I know not as much as i like about electricity, antennas etc. I figure it out as I go. The mag loop is great fun and covers all the bands from 40 to 15 meters just by tuning the variable capacitor.
73s to all the hams the world over.
K1KKT

Equipment

2 Icom 735s
One Yaesu 818nd
1 Butternut vertical
1 inverted V for 160
1 inverted V for 20
1 mag loop 40-15 meter coverage
1 Cb antenna