Biography

About me:

Happily married to Terri (KF4VNT) and my son Alex (KO4DRV) recently became licensed.

For those of you who have talked to me and are curious or confused about my name "Chuck"... it is just a "nickname" I have had since I was a kid. There is a bit of a story behind the nickname but you'll have to ask me in a QSO to get that :)

I've been involved with radio since I was a young child when my father was a very active CB operator. I became very active in CB myself when I was 19 progressing to working a good deal of DX on SSB. I discovered ham radio not long after that but never could master the code to pass the test. I finally became a licensed ham in 1995 after the "No Code Tech" license was offered and love it. There have been periods when life got in the way of spending much time on the radio but I always come back!

I'm currently most active on 2m and 70cm and can usually be found monitoring our local 147.045 (and 147.360) Lumberton NC RCARS repeaters and the N4DBM 444.575 repeater in St Pauls. I also frequent N4DBM's other 2m and 70cm repeaters in the area. More about his repeaters can be found HERE.

After many years of interest in the 1.25m (220mhz) band, I have finally added this to my capabilities and am usually monitoring the 224.160 in Raleigh/Auburn, 224.920 in Lumberton, 224.540 in Kelly, and N4DBM's 224.380 in Elizabethtown.

I am a former Emergency Coordinator (EC) for Robeson County NC ARES, Advanced SkyWarn certified, and typically very active during severe weather events.

You can find me on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/chucktaylornc


QSL Information:

I log all DX contacts on my log on QRZ,com . Please confirm the contact in the QRZ log if you are able. I also now use eQSL and will respond to any sent to me.

Equipment

My Station Equipment:

Kenwood TS-430S HF w/AT-250 tuner (currently off the air)
Icom 706 (currently off the air)
Icom IC-2730a 2m/70cm mobile
2x Vero VR-N7500 2m/70cm (1x base, 1x in KF4VNT's mobile)
QYT KT-7900D Tri-Band Mobile (primarily used for 1.25m)
Kenwood TK-981 900mhz Mobile (base)
Motorola XPR-6580 900mhz HT
Yaesu FT-2900 R/E 2m FM mobile
Yaesu FT-1900 R/E 2m FM mobile
Kenwood TR-9000 2m All Mode (currently off the air)
2x Kenwood TK-805D UHF FM mobile
TYT UV8000E 2m/70cm HT
Wouxun KG-UVD1P
2x Wouxun KG-UV3D 2m/1.25m HT
1x Baofeng UV5R dual-band HT
1x Baofeng UV-5rIII 2m/1.25m/70cm HT
Wouxun KG-689E 2m HT
Radio Shack/Realistic HTX-404 70cm HT
Various DOA Icom and Yaesu radios
Various CB/11m radios and Police/Fire/etc Scanners


My Station Antennas:

TRAM Dual-band 2m/70cm ground plane base @ 30'
"Ed Fong" DBJ-220 1.25m antenna @ 20'
Maxrad MUF9035 (900MHz) 5db w/ground plane kit @ 20'
10/11m "Sigma 58" 5/8 wave vertical @ 20' (currently down)
Coming soon - HF Multi-band wire