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WB3V

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William J Howard

Pasadena 211226525
United States, MD

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Call data

Last update:2020-05-31 04:56:00
QTH:Maryland
Continent:NA
Views:212
Main prefix:K
Class:Amateur Extra
Federal state:MD
US county:Anne Arundel
Latitude:39.1531681
Longitude:-76.5290773
Locator:FM19RD
DXCC Zone:291
ITU Zone:8
CQ Zone:5
Website:wb3v.com
ULS record:883478

QSL data

Last update:2020-05-30 09:59:02
eQSL QSL:no
Bureau QSL:YES
Direct QSL:YES
LoTW QSL:YES

Biography

Please QSL via LOTW or direct. I upload to LOTW, QRZ and eQSL daily. I also enjoy receiving paper QSLs either direct or via the bureau, and I respond in kind. Please NO eQSLs.
Pictured here is me (Bill) and my XYL Wilma, who is also my QSL manager .

First licensed as KN1LNJ in 1959, at age 13 after attending a church sponsored amateur radio class for both code and theory, Soon upgraded to K1LNJ, and picked up a Second Class Radiotelephone license at the FCC office while I was visiting Philadelphia. Rig at the time was a homebrew crystal contolled tube type 40m transmitter made with an orange crate chassis, a 6V6 and a power supply from an old AM radio, along with a Filmore kit receiver using CW on 40m. Not much later, I ran a borrowed 2 meter Gonset on AM then added a modified surplus SCR-522 2m transmitter into a colinear array with a Gonset receiver on 2 meter AM. Graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Science. Moving ahead 50 or so years, I have operated as a KH6 on Oahu, HI; KL7 on Adak in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, and KG6 from Guam (set up the first direct dial autopatch 2mtr repeater on Guam in the 1970s, using a homebrew tone decoder). For HF I had a used Collins S-line that I purchased at Hatry's in Hartford, Connecticut. Now, here I am in Maryland as WB3V. Active on APRS from my boat as WB3V-6 (http://carver33.com), and more recently on HF from the home QTH, mainly 80, 30, 20 and 6: FT4, JT9, and FT8. I was elected the Maryland/DC ARRL Section Manager, back in the 1980s. I was running a homebrew HF multi-band receiver with digital readout (from the 1976 ARRL Handbook) and an old Hallicrafters transmitter in the late 70s and 80s, along with a packet bulletin board on 2m and 220MHz, using software written by N2GTE. later operated HF with a Collins KWM-2A. Now (2019) running an ICOM IC-7300. In January 2020, I added a Ubitx V6 transceiver to the mix. April 2020 I added a Phaser 80 meter transciever #328. This was a fun kit to build. I previously used an ICOM IC-756Pro3 (with alot of help from VE3TMT) and an IC-718 into a Hustler 6BTV vertical. I am not a fan of antenna tuners, opting instead to use resonate antennas.



I am active on 2m, 220 and 440 FM from my vehicle.

ARRL Life Member, and member of the Anne Arundel radio club, and the Maryland Mobileers Radio Club. Thanks for

taking a look and hope to work you on-the-

air. Most recent











project is restoring a National NC-303 receiver and six meter converter. (my dream receiver in 1960). Any pieces, paint or parts welcome.

During my teen years I lived in Manchester, Connecticut (CT), a sleepy bedroom town, about ten miles from Hartford, CT where ARRL HQ was located back in the late 1950s. As a teenage ham I was certainly impressed with their 5 cent Coke machine, and I found the people working there to be quite interesting. So I visited whenever I could afford the bus fare. With the HQ move to Newington I was able to operate W1AW and that was a definite highlight; although the 5 cent Cokes were history. The expanded lab was full of wonderful equipment and talking to the people in the lab was a good learning experience. When I was elected MDC Section Manager, we SMs had to write an article for QST every month and submit it two months in advance. I tried to get as many of our section callsigns in the articles so members would see their calls in QST. Organized a meeting of MDC Section radio club presidents and their VPs with help from Bob Bruninga of APRS fame -- at the U.S. Naval Academy. It was one of those experiences of a lifetime.

After doing a stint as a brig chaser at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, I started school in Pensacola, FLs Corry Field. I operated from WA4ECY with our 90 foot tower, beam and many wire antennas. Rigs were full gallons for CW and RTTY and alot of fun. I was a Navy Radioman (RM)(code speed of 30 WPM), then changed rating to CTT (which eventually became Cryptologic Technician Technical), Moved up to Warrant Officer W1 then Chief Warrant Officer 2, then Limited Duty Officer (LDO) Cryptologic LTjg & LT. After retiring from the Navy, I worked for Northrop, Ideas, SAIC, GTE, and General Dynamics followed by starting my own consulting firm Chesapeake Cyber Associates, LLC.

On Adak Island out in Alaska's Aleutian chain I operated from the stations S-line (KL7AIZ) into a Rhombic antenna pointed at the lower 48. Best antenna ever. At home (in beautiful Adak Alaska, where there were bald eagles everywhere, otters swimming on their backs, cracking clams against stones on their chests, and Salmon runs so thick you could walk across them) I had my trusty used S-Line and a vertical antenna.





On Guam (where you could watch your car rust before your eyes, but the sunsets were the best I had ever seen) I put up a triband beam on my house in South Finegayan, Guam and again worked the pile ups.

In Hawaii we lived on Oahu near the airport, and spent most of my time on 2 meter FM.

Now in Maryland, I spend over 90% of my on-air time using FT8/FT4/JT9. Wonderful modes, and for me, it brought the fun back to amateur radio.

73 - Bill Please visit at https://wb3v.com
https://www.qrz.com/lookup/wb3v

Computer is a refurbished Dell Optiplex 3010 with a 3.3 GHz Intel Core i3-3220 and 4GB of memory running Windows 10 Pro (x64) Version 1909. I added a USB3 board to speed up the backup process to an external 3GB drive.

I use WSJT-X, and JTalert with Meinberg for timing









In Maryland, we like our crabs steamed and coated with Old Bay seasoning, Here with my oldest son and his wife in Baltmore, Maryland We like crabs

Youngest son (formerly N3HFI) and his family upon his retirement from the Navy

Equipment

IC-7300

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WB3V / Pic 2
  

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