Biography

Retired from US Army. While on active duty spent almost 15 years OCONUS. First in Germany, (2/2, 4/3 ADA), then almost 12 years in Central and South America. Spent almost 2 years total in Uruguay, 3 years in El Salvador and 4 in Panama. Along with Argentina, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Colombia, as well as Saudi Arabia, Iraq & Kuwait. Stateside at Ft Stewart & Ft Lewis. While downrange in the military communicated a lot with HF (MARS), VHF, FM, TACSAT.

After the Army started working for INS as an Immigration Inspector. INS became part of CBP (Customs & Border Protection). Retired from CBP May 2021 as Chief of the Roma Port of Entry in South Texas.



73s

Joe

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Working with IC7100 on CHA EMCOMM II V2 on mostly digital. IC7300 on CHA EMCOMM II V1 & Alpha HOA Buster on SSB. Also experimenting on various homebrew "stealth" antennas.