Biography

Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1971. I started my Radio career with the US Army in 1993 - 2003 working as Radio technician and then later as a Radio shop NCO and Retransmission team chief. The systems we worked with were The SINCGARS FM radio systems that operated between 32 MHZ to 88 MHZ band using Frequency hopping technology and HF rigs AN/GRC-106, AN/ PRC- 104 HF Manpack and AN/VRC 100. With the AN/PRC-104 20 Watt SSB HF Manpack we would usually setup with a inverted V dipole like you would do a POTA setup.

The AN/GRC-106 is a vehicle or stand-alone HF base 400-watt SSB setup used for reach back to the Pentagon. The AN/PRC104 HF Manpack was also used for this in the field.

The SINCGARS FM radio system was used for line of site communications up to 5o miles before a retransmission station or repeater was necessary and we would often setup retransmissions stations like repeaters up on mountains and stay with the system during operation to prevent enemy interference in signal operations.

The US Army was heavily invested in UHF/VHF communications from the 1980s through the 2000's due to the nature of the battlefield and ground wars. It has not been until recently in the last 5 years that the US Army started to go back to HF.

After the Military 2003 to 2015 I worked with civilian Satcom systems " KU Band, KA Band, X Band and C Band" starting with Geosynchronous Satellites and later as the technology developed, I worked with Medium Earth Orbit and Low Earth Orbit Satellites to provide internet to countries that would usually not have access. There was also a time between 2004 and 2007 I worked as a Shelter Integration and communications system retrofit technician on the Mobile subscriber equipment shelters. This is a line of site microwave communications phone system and was used between 1993 to 2007 by the US Army for Telephony in the field. Later in 2006 they started to convert the system to the joint network node system and merged the old Microwave based system into the new JNN system or known as the Joint Network Node system that has the ability to use line of site microwave on the battlefield and Satellites to communicate back to base using a system of KA Band satellites and the Regional hub nodes.

2015 to present I have been working as a Applications Engineer. I decided in 2021 to get back into radios and study for my Ham radio license.

2023 - Received Tech license

2025 - Completed General

Equipment

Kenwood TS-570S "Adjusted by previous owner to do 137 watts" HF/FM 6M - 10 - 80 on Inverted V Dipole with 4 to 1 Balun and using a VCI Vectronics manual tuner. USB Signal ink for digital modes. I have been able to make contacts on FT8/FT4/JT-65 and MSK.

Yaesu FTM-6000R on a 2 m and 70 CM BAND Jpole @ 25 ft.