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KX2CW

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Joan Patrie

Seattle 98102
United States, WA

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Call data

Last update:2023-10-06 05:58:52
QTH:Seattle, what3words = drill.spent.watch
Continent:NA
Views:370
Main prefix:K
Class:Advanced
Federal state:WA
US county:King
Latitude:47° 37’ N
Longitude:-122° 16’ W
Locator:CN87UO17
DXCC Zone:291
ITU Zone:8
CQ Zone:5
Website:joanpatrie.libsyn.com
ULS record:3985080
Issued:2017-12-19

QSL dataUp to date!

Last update:2023-04-20 19:48:18
eQSL QSL:no
Bureau QSL:no
Direct QSL:YES
LoTW QSL:no

Biography

SKCC 22447 • Fists 20069 • ‘Joan’ on Phone, or ‘Jn’ on CW :)

Outside antennas are verboten at my residence in downtown Seattle which severely limits HF, although lately i’ve managed to wrestle some 40m CW from the æther

However, with my Elecraft KX2, I’m able to get on HF by going portable and operating from city parks and off-grid campsites

Also, recently, i’m experimenting with WebSDR. I have in mind to transmit CW from my indoor resonant wire dipole strung-up inside my room, and receive with a WebSDR in Northern California—approximately one 40m skip radius from my location in Seattle

My first love is CW. However, recently (stuck in this downtown Seattle apartment) I've been trying other weak signal modes such as PSK, THOR, Feld Hell, and other ‘free running’ radio teletype modes. I’ve not yet tried non-free-running modes such as FT-8

I’ve installed the KXAT2 internal ‘antenna tuner’ [impedance matcher] in my KX2, and it works like a charm! I’ll never give up my roller inductor trans-match (the MFJ-969 T-match, which I use fully with my vintage Ten•Tec Century/21 and other vintage rigs, and use in bypass mode for its integral cross-needle VSWR/power meter, 4:1 bal-un RF transformer, and hefty dummy-load with, eg, the IC-718). However, the KX2’s internal ATU is such a breeze, and it’s performance is most excellent

I also have a QRPworks SideKar+ so I can type on a QWERTY keyboard without needing to lug a computer around with me camping! I use the QWERTY keyboard for PSK31 (rather than keying the text in with iambic paddles—a very nifty feature of the Elecraft KX2 & 3 radios). Also, on a bad fist day, I can use it to type CW as well. I love that my KX2 has PSK and RiTTY codecs integrated in firmware


EDUCATION: Bachelor of Philosophy, History, and Design. Bilingual: English und Deutsch

MILITARY SERVICE: 67 November [UH-1H Iroqois ‘Huey’ helicopter mechanic/air crew] in the US Army in the late ’70s. In the early ’80s, i served in the U.S. Navy as an Opticalman (now a sub-specialty within the Fire Control Technician rating) with Temporary Duty as a Yeoman. I did sea time aboard USS Puget Sound, AD-38 (then Flagship of the 6th Fleet, on the Med). I’m a Veteran with 50% service-connected disability

U.S. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: i worked the 1988 season as a scientific photographer on Isle Royale Nat'l Park

I have volunteered as a recovery coach and peer facilitator at Recovery Café in Seattle. I’m also involved in advocating solutions for homelessness and for reforms to the military justice process to redress the growing problem of military sexual trauma

I write memoir and speculative fiction as a hobby. I also play two folk harps, various flutes, and my vintage Rhodes stage piano as a [now] amateur musician. And, as a music lover, i very much enjoy using my now-vintage turntable with a new Shure M97xE magnetic phonograph cartridge. I love Jazz, string quartets, and Beethoven’s 7th; and Romantic period composers never fail to reduce me to tears

Equipment

HF transceivers: • Elecraft KX2 all mode, 12~10w, all mode, 80~10m with internal ATU
Icom IC-718 CW/SSB/AM 100w 160~10m [sans 60m] with AH-4 external outdoor ATU
• vintage Ten•Tec Century/21 model 570 CW Novice transceiver, 25w, 80~10m [sans WARC & 60m]
• ‘hollow-state’ Heathkit AT-1 CW Novice transmitter and Hallicrafters S-38 ‘low performance’ Novice HF receiver
• various QRP CW rigs (eg: a NorCal20 & two 40As, YouKits40, TunaTin2, Pixie, etc)
• an 80m 3885 kc 1w AM ‘glow bug’ transmitter, a MW crystal set, regenerative receivers, and many fun radio do-dads

Like everyone else, i have more V/UHF HTs than i really need, eg: two Yaesu FT-25s & an FT-65; an Anytone 878 2m/70cm FM/DMR; Wouxun 6m/2m FM and 2m/125cm FM handhelds, and ‘mobile’ radios include an Alinco DR-06T 6m FM/data rig and a 36-year-old IC-28 that still works!

I use both homemade and ‘store-bought’ HF Antennas, for examples: an MFJ-2289 BigEar ‘ginormous rabbit-ears’ telescoping V-dipole with Ganella-type transmission-line 4:1 balun (augmented with an extra air-wound coil, extra-short poles for 2m, and extension wires which get me to resonance all the way down to 120 meters). I have a Chameleon EmComm III end-fed tactical 80~6m antenna, a QRP mag loop 80~15m which is also excellent for direction-finding (for HF transmitter hunts); and, i have an Elecraft AX-1 (plus the 40m coil) which is a very fun pocket-sized QRP base-loaded telescoping quarter-wave (with which i’ve experimentally had no trouble tuning to resonance and operating with from 40~10m using custom-tuned counterpoise wires with variant telescopic lengths)

Software platforms: Linux, macOS, and iOS

Test equipment: RigExpert AA-600 analyzer; MFJ-894 dual VSWR meter; Hitachi V-1065A dual axis oscilloscope; 0~30 V current limiting bench PS; VOMs (including vintage stuff dating back to 1939 which works perfectly). I also have non-radio-related gear (as i’m a musician, craft person, and science buff), for examples: Mackie mixers, expensive condenser mics, a treadle sewing machine, and a Geiger counter

I use lots of battery power: to wit three 14v 7 AHr lithium ferro-phosphate batteries; two 11v 2.4 AHr lithium ion batteries; and various other lithium and nickel metal-hydrides. Photovoltaics include two 20w panels plus a QRPworks SolMate low RF noise 25w charge controller, and i operate bicycle mobile from my Joan-brew 36-volt electric bicycle

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