Biography

Hello,
After high school, South Charleston High, WV

56 years ago, August 7th 1963, at about 12:40pm, I sign up in the US Army in
Newark, NJ, Went to Fort Dix for basic training. I went to Fort Monmouth Signal School at
Red Bank, NJ. Fixed Station Operation.
I was assigned to the transmitter site in Panama, CZ and liked it so much, I extended for a
total time there of 2 1/2 years.

I later was discharge at Fort Amador, CZ on Aug. 8, 1966. I did not take
the early out due to my desire to ride my 305cc Yamaha bike through Central America
with my two Army buddies. I (we) could write a book about that trip.

At home in South Charleston, WV
I later in years signed in the US Army Guard about 1985 in the 111th
Engineer Group in St. Albans, WV.

I stayed there for 3 years and then for 1 year with 261st Army Reserve
in South Charleston, WV which is now in Cross Lanes, WV

I have had many jobs throughout the years in different places, all were related to electronics and
repair. My last job of 25 years where I retired in 2001 was Union Carbide Technical
Center-R&D Analytical. I have worked the elections working as a pole worker at Richmond
Elementary. I gave this up several years ago.

I now work allot on my home projects and keeping it up. I have a great shop and repair
mostly older Kenwood radios. I love to cook too.

Equipment

Radios: TS940S, IC7000, Yacht Boy 500, Grundig G5W, Yaesu FT470, IC T90A, Heathkit SB102
Timewave DSP 59+, MFJ DX Beacon Monitor, HF Receiver R30A

Antennas: 80M loop with SGC Smart tuner, G5RV, 160M Corbra, 2M 4El Quad, 2M J pole, 80 M long wire, 80M dipole, Eagle One vertical with SGC Smart tuner PCB in watertight box.

Computer: Macintosh Pro with OS 10.7.5, Macintosh G3 for SCISI scanner use only now.

Software: Parallels Desktop for Mac, with HRD, Echolink, Electronic Workbench

Mac side software: cocoaModem 2.0, wsjtx, MultiMode Cocoa 6.6.0, fidigi 3.23.13
Toolbox,iSpectrum,EchoMac,WeatherMan, WeatherTracker,ProLevel,and others

Browsers & More: Firefox,Safari,Chome,MacDraft Pro,GraphicConverter 8.6,Stuffit,FileMaker Pro,Adobe Acrobat Pro,Microsoft package Excel, Word, PowerPoint.