Biography

Greetings from West-Central New Jersey. I am approximately 45 miles west of NYC in beautiful Hunterdon County, very close to Pa.
While I operate from the home QTH, I particularly enjoy HF, VHF, and 70 CM Mobiling from my Ford Ranger.
At the home QTH are an ICOM 756 pro and ICOM 7300, with a 32 foot vertical dipole that looks like a flagpole, and an OCF Windom sloper dipole strung 55 feet high.
The HF Mobile is an ICOM 7000. I use a home brew self-tuning antenna and a small controller to tune the antenna.
VHF,70 CM, and 220 is a Baofengtech UV-50X3 tribander.

I have made many contacts with the mobile on HF, and basically can work anyone I can hear, I run barefoot at 100 watts. Since the antenna is very high efficiency it works well.
I enjoy the technical side of Amateur Radio, and especially constructing antennas and mobile mounting of HF equipment.
I can be found in the mobile daily and mostly monitor 20 meters, (14.305.00), and also the local repeaters on VHF, 220, and 70 cm.
I am also very much into automotive a I do specialized chassis and other components for the car hobby. I am a metal fabricator by trade and I specialize in one-off parts and aluminum and stainless steel welding for the local machine shops. Of course this comes in handy when constructing antennas for the Ham Radio Hobby. Below is my Current Hand built project in its finishing stages.
Thanks for looking
73 De K2RRX

Equipment

Icom IC-7300 New Rig...Very Nice
Icom IC-7000 Mounted in the mobile
Icom IC-756 PRO
Icom IC-725 (portable operation from my work QTH)
Baofengtech UV-50X3 VHF-UHF-220 Tribander in the mobile
Ailunce HD1 DMR Dual Band Handheld
ICOM IC-F3161 HT (3)
ICOM IC-F2161 HT
Kenwood NX 300 HT
Kenwood NX 200 HT
Kenwood TK 2180 HT
Bao Feng UV-5r HT (2)
Bao Feng UV-82X HT
Bao Feng UV-3r+ Modified for Tri-band
34 Foot Vertical Dipole
Dipole cut for 15 Meters
OCF 80 Meter antenna (HY-Power Antennas)

Home Brew "Motor drive" type Mobile antenna, Tunes 80 thru 10 Meters
Hustler center load CB antenna Re-wound for 6 meters
Dual band (VHF-UHF) yagi for portable use
Various other pieces of equipment for field day and remote operation such as
tripod mounts, collapsible masts etc.