Biography

I was licensed in 1976 as WN4OMT in SC and upgraded to Technician. later upgraded to General WB7PQI, then Advanced KC3SW, and finally completed Extra K7HB.

I retired in 2010 from a career with technical and management experience as a Principle Field Engineer - RF and digital communications with computer network interfaces -to a new career as a university professor. Now teach Online Graduate and Undergraduate business and IT classes for a couple different universities.

I love to tinker, like CW, and QRP. Have various small projects that range from an original Tuna Tin II transmitter built in the late 1970s to a homebrew computer sound card interface that allows working digital modes from my Argonaut 509 to a Robert Patzlaff, W9JQT Rockless QRP completed in 2010. Some of the shack equipment may be viewed at my ham web site http://www.K7HB.com.

The HF antenna farm consists of all homebrew antennas: a G5RV for 80-10, a 40 M New Carolina Windom, a fullwave 80 M endfed. That "Windom" consists of a homebrew 4:1 torroid transformer attached to an off center fed (OCF) dipole with a 10 foot coax feed section isolated by a 1:1 current transformer fed by coax. The OCF is fairly broadbanded for each band from 40 - 10.

Recently acquired HB1B 80,40,30,20 QRP for backpacking. Looking forward to using it


72 & 73
John

Equipment

Primary station:
Icom 706 switchable between a G5RV or an endfed 80M.
HB1A and HB1B for portable QRP plus a TenTec Argonaut VI