Biography

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Thank you for coming KQ6A page.

I would like to introduce myself and a current activity with my amature radio life.

1966 Amature licence was granted in Japan. Preparation for On Air to make my home brew rigs.

Down converter 50Mhz to 20Mhz.

Rx: RFx1, IFx2 HF Single heterodyne all vacuum tubes.

Tx: Final 12BY7A 5W input 50Mhz AM and CW, Modulator 7189B single AM hising modulation.

Ant 1/2λ Dipole, 15m Hight.

1967 Open my station JH1QBG. Tokyo, Japan.

1968 Home brewed All semiconductor SSB Tx 50Mhz. 2SC105 final 10W input. All Transistor Tx., 3.58Mhz Ladder type Crystal Filter Utilized a Crystal oscillator for Color TV. IC based Double Balanced Modulator.

1969 QRT

1990 Re-Open station

Transceiver: Kenwood TR-430S 100W HF bands

Transceiver: Kenwood TM-401 20W input, 430Mhz UHF Mobile.

Ant 10m Hight Multiple Band GP HF Bands and 12 Ele. Yagi’s Horizontal Stack for 430MHz

Operation Mostly 80m, 40m, 20m, 15m and 0.6m



1995 QRT



2017 Re-Open station as KM6LGD (Current KQ6A) at Fremont, CA USA

TS-430S Kenwood and IC-7300 ICOM, Barefoot for 1.9 - 50MHz

TM-401 430Mhz Transceiver Kenwood 10W

IC-91 144, 430MHz FM D-Star with MMDVM Hotspot.

QRP 40m CW by homemade 1w RF power Tx and Direct conversion Rx

ANT : 40ft. long wire 25ft. from ground with ICOM ATS, Multiband HF

EFHW 14MHz wire anttena with homemade matching equipment.

Vertical, 5/8 Vertical and 6 ele. Yagi for UHF

Antennas are all homemade.



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