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WB0YLE

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Bryan Boyle

Fall River 02723
United States, MA

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Call data

Last update:2022-11-11 16:33:23
QTH:Home of Lizzie Borden and Emeril Legasse
Continent:NA
Views:336
Main prefix:K
Class:Amateur Extra
Federal state:MA
US county:Bristol
Latitude:41.6896718
Longitude:-71.1295734
Locator:FN41KQ
DXCC Zone:291
ITU Zone:8
CQ Zone:5
Website:www.wb0yle.com
Echolink:554286
ULS record:3180131
Issued:2010-03-23

Most used bands

20m
(83%)
40m
(14%)
15m
(3%)
10m
(1%)

Most used modes

SSB
(100%)

QSL data

Last update:2017-04-10 18:03:04
Bureau name:ARRL
eQSL QSL:YES
Bureau QSL:YES
Direct QSL:YES
LoTW QSL:no

Repeater information

RX Freq: 224.54 MHz
TX Freq: 222.94 MHz
Offset: -1.6 MHz
CTCSS: 141.3 Hz
RX Freq: 927.65 MHz
TX Freq: 902.65 MHz
Offset: -25.0 MHz
CTCSS: 141.3 Hz
RX Freq: 145.25 MHz
TX Freq: 144.65 MHz
Offset: -0.6 MHz
CTCSS: 103.5 Hz
RX Freq: 444.9875 MHz
TX Freq: 449.9875 MHz
Offset: +5.0 MHz
DStar Node: WB0YLE_b

Biography

I'm in my second go-round through the ranks of the amateur radio hobby. . .first licensed in 1969 as a 13-year-old overactive kid. Passed the novice test with 7 WPM (nothing like doing it with a couple words a minute to spare, right?), and ran a Knight rig with a whole 75w input into a long wire that took me forever to tune. But, that led me down the road to earning my 1st Phone in the late 70s, a career in broadcasting at the ABC Radio Network; much to my parent's chagrin: hey Dad, you CAN actually make a living 'playing on the radio'.

I've now morphed into IT as an information assurance specialist. Go figure. At heart, though, I'm a radio guy.

Let my Tech ticket lapse in '89. Life, job, and family were (and still are) more important, but, recently found myself with extra time on my hands, so, thought I'd just take element 2 again and pick up a 144/440 rig to ragchew on my 40 mile one-way commute. Wrong. Very wrong. All that experience counted for something, I guess.

Blew thru elements 2 (Technician), 3 (General), and 4 (Extra). Who'd a-thunk? (Guess having bled through earning the 1st Phone back in the day and maintaining an active interest in electronics and RF helped, right?)

Started out with some pretty basic equipment (by today's standards of computer controlled rigs and audio processing and automated logging): a wonderful old TS-820S, MC50, Phone patch (remember them?) and an MFJ949 to feed a Radiowavz 20/40M dipole in the attic through RG213. . .

OK, so, I'm making contacts and having a blast, even with the limited hardware. Love the old hybrids and upgraded to a TS-830S (keeping the 820 to work the CW ends of the bands with a Heathkit keyer) and an SB-200 amp from an SK estate to put some fire in the wire, so to speak, and, being the inveterate packrat...collected a whole pile of equipment and have built up a pretty nice shack like you see above.

In the interim between amateur licenses, earned my pilot's certificate all the way through Commercial with a Primary and Instrument CFI, airframe and powerplant tech, and bought and sold a few airplanes.

I also restore automobiles, specializing on the Lotus Europa.

The story of this car can be found on http://www.lotuseuropa.us under the 693R link on the top menu. Journal (800 pages!), photos of the resto, you name it concerning tearing a car down and starting with a bare frame, it's in there. It's also garnered multiple first place trophies in shows I go to. Must be its uniqueness...can't be because of anything I've done.:)

Also, going back to my roots: building an internet radio facility to do streaming of news, talk, and other information a number of stations across the country. Nice thing about the flexibility of the technology.now you don't even need RF or those old telephone lines from AT&T to actually distribute programming, but have an application ready to go to put up a low power FM station in my town if the FCC ever gets a Round Tuit in opening up the application process again.

So, if we meet on the bands, it will be a pleasure and honor to make your acquaintance.

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

HF:

Kenwood:
TS-830S Gold Label w/matching VFO, SP-230, SM-220, AT-250
TS-480 w/remoterig and MC-60 Mic, also optionally
controlled via HRD

Heathkit:
SB-200
ALS-600 w/TS-480 interface and IP-accessible AC power controller

Turner +3 Mic

Antennas:
GAP Challenger DX
40/80 inverted dipole (homebrew)

Tuners:
MFJ stuff

V/UHF:
Drake TR-33C
Yaesu FT-7900
Jetstream JT200M (x2)
Alinco DR-135
Alinco DR-235 (x2)
TYT TH9000H (220 band)
Wouxun KG-UV1DP (2/440 & 2/220)
Motorola Maxtrac VHF (x2)
Motorola GTX 900 mobile (x3)
Motorola GTX 900 HT

Repeaters: (coordinated via ARCC in Philly)
Yaesu DR-1X System Fusion (18598, room 28598) on 145.25
Motorola Micor RepeaterBuilder Conversion to 220 w/TE Systems Amp 224.54
MMDVM Repeater (Motorola CDM750s)444.9875
Motorola Maxtrac/GTX combo for 900
(and duplexers for all 4 bands...Wacom, Decibel Products, Motorola)
Controller: Asterisk App_Rpt Allstar through DMK Engineering universal
radio interfaces (URI)

And a whole bunch of other ash and trash.

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