Biography

I have been a ham radio operator since 1991 with a Novice license then upgraded tech and then to General and Advance at one test session with the call KI7MD and in 1996 passed the twenty word a minute code test to pass the Extra class license. I have been a active SWL since early childhood listening to AM SWL tube radio; I retired at 60 years from the Union Pacific RR with 38 years in the Mechanical Department with last 24 years as a Supervisor in car shops. I travel in my 5th wheel trailer and this year 2017 I have been married 46 years to the love of my life.

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

fox tango 950
gap vertical titan
4 Element 6 meter beam
up 16 feet
TS 140 kenwood
QRP MFJ 9420 MFJ 9040
HW 7
Antenna
G5RV R7000 not used
Perth Outback for the
5th Wheel RV
160 meter inverted L
USB Signal link for jt65\
Icom 880h with DStar
yaesu 857D for my mobile HF