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Most of my radio activity is from our weekend / vacation home in Canaan Valley,
West Virginia Grid FM09ga, so you usually hear me as K4THE/8. My 'shack' is at
3700 ft (1130 m) elevation on top of Pointy Knob which is in the Monongehela
National Forest. We are next to a WV state park and near several wildlife
preserves. It is a very electro-magnetically quiet area. We average 12 feet of
lake effect snow a year.
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=39.0006&lon=-79.4731&datum=nad83
My neighbor's webcam looks NE into the valley
http://www.wunderground.com/webcams/TWV60S/1/show.html
I currently have there a 20m dipole (storm took down the 80m horizontal loop)
and my Kenwood TS-2000 with LDG Z-11Pro tuner. I have a Ten-Tec Argonaut-V and
40m horizontal loop in Charlottesville for QRP activity, especially on PSK31. I
enjoy rag chewing with interesting people and making new friends in DX
countries.
QSL INFO: I am not particularly interested in collecting a lot of cards,
however I do like special event stations. I am in the process of converting my
manual log to ADIF files and will eventually post them to LOTW and eQSL. I will
reply to any card received by the buro or direct, as I know many of you out
there like "hardcopy."
My interest in radio began in the early 1940s with late night listening to BC
radio on a Crosley car radio in a wooden cabinet and then with homebuilt
crystal sets. I moved on to SWL and NDB hunting with a Heathkit AR-2 with
Q-multiplier that I built when I was 12 years old, WW-II military surplus
radios, several Radio Shack units and finally an Icom R-75. I of course
listened to the ham bands using the BFO and learned a lot about amateur radio
from eavesdropping. I finally got my license (KI4BFM) in 2003 shortly before I
retired and upgraded in the following years.
I was graduated from the University of Rhode Island with BSEE in 1962 and MSEE
in '66. I was in the Army reserves then and later went to Vietnam in 1970 as a
Captain running a special mission operations team. I spent my civilian career
working in the national intelligence community as an all-source analyst. I
enjoyed traveling to many countries running various projects and working with
our allies.
Other interests include martial arts, flying, SCUBA diving, weightlifting,
running, marksmanship, archery, and hopefully R/C sailplanes later this year.
My XYL andI have been married 45 years and have two children in Colorado &
twograndchildren.
73 Dennis
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