Biography

Hello, I was licensed in 1974. I went to Portland, Oregon to the FCC office to take the test. I passed the tech test and General. At the time I thought you had to wait a year to take the advanced or extra. The FCC agent as if I wanted to take the advanced test and I did and pasted it. Never tried to take the extra test although I tried for a radio telegraph first class and passed the 25 wpm code but found out I had to be at sea as a apprentice before I could take the radio telegraph license.

I have been active through the 1990s and was also a Navy MARS operator. I enjoyed that and we moved and I dropped out of the MARs program and sold my ham gear.

I got back on the air in 2013. A good ham friend of mine sent me his old station to get on the air with, Earl KB7NJW. I have the station going all the time even tho the bands have not been that good. I work mostly CW on 20 mtrs collecting contacts and SKCC numbers. Also, check into the noon net on 40 mtrs. I QSL by slug mail, QRZ.com. Thanks for looking at my rap and cu on the air. 73s Rick WB7BTR

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Rig: Kenwood TS-50 with AT-50, Carolina Windom with choke ten feet down feed line.
SignaLink for CW, RTTY and other digital modes. I don't use the SignaLink very often as there is a lot of RF in the shack and causes it to lock up.
Work SSB, Digital, CW, FM, most liked mode os CW.