My name is Joe Weir and I have lived in Jacksonville, Florida for 50 years. I am currently (still) employed as a Mailhandler at the Jacksonville Bulk Mail Center (24 years). I have been licensed since 1983, presently hold a General class ticket and a CSCE for 20 WPM. I usually hang out on 28.390 USB with the Wacky Wing Dingers, 146.700 FM with NOFARS, or even 27.185 AM when I want to go QRP with the truckers on the Interstate. 7.110 is used here for CW (G5RV @ 35 feet) in the old Novice tradition (I like to use a J-38 that a friend found in his attic with some of his grandfather's stuff) and the Cushcraft AR-10 vertical @ 50 feet has worked back-scatter from the equator, ground wave down the river to Ocala, and as far west as Lake City... Nowadays, I just run the 130-feet of 10-gauge, 9-strand, UV-resistant, insulated wire with some "Wirebook III", 450-ohm ladder-line up in the pine trees. They call it the G5RV. I call it a "fog-periodic" (: )}

Some momentous occassions as KB4FOS:

Me and "Bicycle Dave", N3ICN, working 20 meter Field Day at 4 AM. He worked SSB and I worked code. We did the duty while the team slept. That's how you score on Field Day..

Capturing Shoemaker-Levi "G" impact on AES facsimile software; forgetting to save the file...

Leaving the VOX on at an inopportune moment... (Father's Day, 1998)

Calling CQ SKN (Straight Key Night) with the "glove-key"...reliable communications through the thumb and forefinger at about 7 WPM...

Harry's (KS4ID) antenna party of 1995 and Field Day, 1995: That Kenwood TS-440s was SO HOT, it rattled Harry's hot water heater solenoid down in the garage hard enough that you could read it clearly..

The Late Night Crunch Bunch and toe-nail chewin' topics of discussion...

The 2001 Wacky Wing Ding Society picnic and Bono's babyback ribs.

Temporarily forgetting my Part 97.113(a)(4) and regretting the "splatter" on 2 meter FM...