Biography

Amateur licensed since 1995, and commercial licensed since 1996.

Spent over 16 years building Towers up to 450 meters, and installing governmental 2-way communication, broadcast TV/Radio, and cellular Telephone equipment...

I found a new career in Maritime after a very minor parachuting mishap BASE-jumping in the Western USA... cracked my hip, and it required a bit on fixing, lol

I later spent 6 years living through out West Africa while working onboard a Hospital Ship for a Global Charity focused on help there...

I now work as a Licensed Chief Engineer on vessels in the USA, where I can be found at times onboard as K9HIX/MM.

I also have a GMDSS, and Marine radio inspection service, where I issue annual FCC licensing for USA flagged vessels.

My latest radio adventure is POTA...

Equipment

Radios...

Yaesu FT-891
Yaesu FT-991
Icom IC-7300
Kenwood TS-480SAT
Icom IC-M700Pro
SGC SG-2000
SGC SG-2000 PowerTalk
Several HT's... VHF/UHF/APRS

Amplifiers...

Alpha 374 (1500w idling)
Acom 600S (600w)
SGC SG-500 (500w mobile)

Antennas...

Hy-Gain Hy-Tower (1500w Tuner Fed at base for all bands)
23' base coil load vertical
Wire (dipoles) everywhere, lol

Wire Antenna Tuners...

Icom AT-120
North Radio N-780
MFJ-998RT (1500w)
MFJ-994RT (600w)

Misc Stuff...

Rig Expert AA-230 Zoom
Bird 43 (and loads)
Samlex Power Supplies
Audio Processing equipment by W2IHY (EQ Noise Gate, EQplus)
West Mountain, and SGC Digital
ElectroVoice, and Heil Microphones
Evolve Mistro III 12 volt LTE 1G Laptop ($60 new... for POTA)

and too much more to list...