Biography

On a vacation trip to St. Croix, U.S.V.I. way back in August of 1995 I strung my 20 meter copper wire dipole around a sea grape shrub on the beach I was enjoying. I had been snorkeling all day and it was 4:30 PM and the sun was going down. I had brought my Ramsey SX-20 transceiver with me and hooked it up to the cigarette lighter in my rented Jeep Wrangler that sat on the beach near my makeshift Sea Grape antenna array.

After a few minutes I tuned to 14.247 Mhz. Alan WA4JTK (now a silent key )was calling for DX stations as part of the "247" DX net. I answered his call and logged in as KP2/WB2KQW running 10 watts PEP from a beach in St. Croix. I caused a major pileup! I owe alot of my DX contacts to the old 247 DX net and miss it. Alan would always give me a break and was able to pull out the last two letters of my call in the stateside pileup and get me on the list.

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Equipment

Ramsey SX-20 running 10 watts portable powered 12 volt Jeep Wrangler battery, half wave dipole strung out amongst Sea Grape beach shrubs