Biography

To track me on APRS, change the callsign in the aprs.fi search field to N7FAN-14.

If you've worked me on the air after July 2025, I was mobile (not moving at the time (unless VHF/UHF FM), working from the sleeper of my truck!

All mobile operations between July 4, 2025 and November 17, 2025 are logged as N7FAN/P, and will show up in that logfile, EXCEPT 2m/70cm mobile contacts made while I was actually driving. Those will show in the main N7FAN log.

To track me on APRS, change the callsign in the aprs.fi search field to N7FAN-14.

I am a truck driver and I mainly haul Aviation Fuel products, delivering to airports and locations in Arizona and the surrounding states. While I reside in sunny Arizona, I spend a lot of time on the road.

I've been licensed since 1983 and have enjoyed a lot of what Ham Radio offer. Want to know where I'm at? You can locate me on APRS.fi. I also post my contacts to my online logbook, which you can view at the link above this text.

I upload all of my contacts to LOTW and QRZ. eQSL is a big problem for portable/mobile operations, because of having to have multiple locations with specific operating dates, etc. If you need a confirmed grid square contact, or a contact from the state/location I was operating from, you can email me and I'll look up the contact and send you a digital QSL (printable), confirming the contact.

If you send me a digital QSL Card, I will return one to you! Otherwise, the contact will only be digitally confirmed via LOTW and QRZ.

73, David

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Working Mobile from a 2026 Kenworth T-680, on a FT-857D into a mirror mount Shark Hamstick, attached to the top of the trailer.

I also have a Anytone AT-5888uv running into a Comet dual band antenna mounted on the back of the sleeper.

The Anytone is installed so that I can operate it from the driver's seat, but the Yaesu is mounted in the sleeper. I have to be parked to use the HF radio.

I also have a bunch of HTs in drawers and boxes. I currently carry three of them with me on the truck.

Yaesu FT-60R
BTech UV-Pro (for APRS)