Biography

Licensed since 1976 at age 15 and this is my original callsign.
I operate from my home shack, mobile and portable - mostly SSB.
Be Well and Good DX!
73, Dan

Member:
ARRL - American Radio Relay League
SARA - Stamford Amateur Radio Association
WECA - Westchester Emergency Communications Association
GNARC - Greater Norwalk Amateur Radio Corporation Inc.
LIMARC - Long Island Mobile Amateur Radio Club, Inc.
PARC - Peconic Amateur Radio Club
ECARS - East Coast Amateur Radio Service (standby Net Control operator)

Equipment

HOME SHACK: HF:

Kenwood TS-890S transceiver.
KF8OD custom made legal limit Amplifier with dual LDMOS BLF188XR and W6PQL design low pass filter.
Palstar BT1500A Balanced Tuner.
Antenna#1: 472' full rectangle (156'x80') horizontal loop up 50', Southwire #12 solid copper pvc insulated THHN wire, 62 1/2 feet twisted open-wire feeder line using 6" electric fence wood post insulators as spacers with zip ties for 600 ohms.
Antenna#2: Sirio S-2016 5/8 wave vertical ground plane antenna for 10 meters, with homemade 1:1 Isolation Feedline/Choke Balun using 2 FT-240-43 Ferrite Toroidal Cores wrapped with RG400 Coax, and 50 feet of Heliax LDF4-50a 1/2" cable.
Astatic D-104 crystal head microphone with D-104 Mark II Audio Processor which incorporates a phase rotator circuit and low pass filter, (compression and noise gate bypassed).(processor by K7DYY).
Astron RS-35A linear power supply.
Polk T30 Center Channel Speaker
"Amphenol" (authentic) connectors & adapters: 083-1SP (PL-259); 083-1AP (UHF Right Angle); 083-1J (UHF Jack to UHF Jack) - count the threads and compare to non-Amphenol, you can see the difference and so can your RF.

HOME SHACK: VHF:

Kenwood TM-V71A FM Dual Bander 2 meter/70cm
Homemade 2 meter/70cm vertical dipole with Heliax LDF4-50a 1/2"cable

MOBILE: HF:

Kenwood TS-480HX 200 watt transceiver (1st).
Diamond SD330 80-6 meters screwdriver antenna on Diamond trunk lip mount with 2 Harvest MAT-50 Counterpoise Magnet Mats for HF mobile attached to aluminum foil under the inside top of my carbon fiber trunk creating a ground plane.
Diamond K400-3/8C heavy duty trunk lip 3/8 thread mount using RG-8X-LL 50 ohm cable (DavisRF) with 10 turns on FT-240-43 Ferrite Toroidal core inside trunk, close to antenna mount.
TuneMatic automatic motorized antenna controller.
Astatic D104-M6B amplified mobile microphone.
Astatic 302-VS4 Classic External 5 watt, 8 ohms speaker.

MOBILE: VHF:

Kenwood TM-V71A FM Dual Bander 2 meter/70cm.
Comet CA-2x4SR 2 meter/440Mhz antenna with CA-SPR Spring Kit.
Diamond K400S heavy duty trunk lip uhf mount with RG-316.
Astastic 302-VS4 Classic External 5 watt, 8 ohm speaker.

VACATION/TRAVEL/PORTABLE:

Kenwood TS-480HX 200 watt transceiver (2 of 2).
Antenna option #1: Individual band or multiband doublets with 450 ohm ladder line and home made 1:1 Current Balun using FT-240-43 Ferrite Toriodal Core and magnet wire.
Antenna option #2: Chameleon Broadband Vertical Monopole Antenna (CHA MIL 2.0) with Extension Whip (CHA MIL EXT 2.0) mounted on the Chameleon CHA Hybrid-Mini (5:1 Balun) and Chameleon Spike with four 16 gauge 25 feet marine wire radials on the ground held with tent stakes.
Antenna option #3: Chameleon CHA Hybrid-Mini (5:1 Balun) with 60, 73 or 130 foot 16 gauge PTFE Kevlar horizontal long wire with RG-8X-LL (DavisRF) as counterpoise.
Tuner option #1: MFJ-939 automatic antenna tuner (200 watts SSB, matches 6-1600 ohms-SWR up to 32:1).
Tuner option #2: MFJ-901B manual antenna tuner (200 watts SSB).
Bioenno Power ABS, BLF-1240AS battery (12vdc & 40 amphours).
Bioenno Solar Panel, BSP-150-LITE
Chameleon Backpack.


VHF/HANDHELD/PORTABLE:

Kenwood TH-F6a FM Tribander HT with Diamond SRH320A antenna