Biography

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I'm a Portable operator. Click on my profile picture.

I'm Mike N4CGR. I'm a retired United States Coast Guard Radioman from back in the days of HF Radio Teletype and CW message traffic and 500kHz CW calling and distress frequency, monitoring for distress, weather observation and AMVER reports. I first got my Novice license KB4QBZ in the early 80s but career moves, life and family became priority. So it went to the back burner.

Now retired from a second career in IT, a few other adventures and downsized from a house and yard I've tired of taking care of, to a condo I can't put an antenna up at.

So, I work 99 percent Portable I have access to the local club station with radios, antennas and amplifiers but don't use it. I'll save that for club activities.

I hang a wire in the tree at the Eau Gallie River on the end of our property, I hung a paracord about 35 feet up in a big old Oak tree and it stays there, so I just pull up my wire for which antenna I'm going to use.

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To be continued..

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Simply budget friendly Ham Shack.

Picnic table under an old Oak tree.

Xiegu g90 HF transceiver 20 watt maximum power.
20ah lifepo4 battery
My antenna
29ft about 8.8 m Vertical wire with 4 radials 17ft about 5 m.
pulled up in the tree.
133 ft off center fed dipole with speaker wire.
84ft nonresonant wire with 17ft counterpoise with speaker wire.
20m delta loop with speaker wire.

Purchased so far
a 1:1 unun,
a 4:1 balun
a 9:1 balun
2 - 100 foot roll of speaker wire.