Biography

I received my Tech license in 1991 at the urging of my boss at the time Alan Gallagher WA6LEW/WB6T (SK). After that time, I was only doing FM voice, and lurking for the most part. In the last several years, I have been experimenting with digital on 10 meters. I have just recently (2012) began working on upgrading to General.

Update 2014-04-05.... Upgaded to General today. Now I am working on the upgrade to Extra.

I have been active using JT65 on 10, 15, 20 and 40 meters.

I use QRZ, eQSL, and LOTW to log my contacts. I upload contacts to QRZ at the end of each contact. eQSL and LOTW at the end of the day, usually.

I don't have QSL cards to send out as of yet.

Equipment

Icom IC 718 (new March 2014)

LDG IT-100 Autotuner

Home-brew 10 meter dipole or 10 - 80 trapped dipole.

eMachines Computer with Home-brew interface

Baofeng UV5RE+ for Portable use

Yaesu FT-60 connected to Arrow Dual Band J-Pole for Base operations

Realistic HTZ-100 back up 10 meter radio

Kenwood TH-28a (Sadly for parts, no output power on 2 meters and maybe a watt on 70 cm.)

Kenwood TM-741 (Sadly for parts ( can't save to memory channels. I was using for APRS but after being on for a day or two, 2 meter power drops from 40 watts to < 1 watt.))