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N5ASA LARRY R LABORDE 245 DOBBER GLASS RD BASKIN, LA 71219 USA Lookups:   6180 QRZ Member
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QRZ Record: 480076 Login to manage/edit Lookups: 6180 (6301) Mailing Label... QRZ Admin: N5ASA Last Update: 2009-04-07 08:44:39 Class: Extra Codes: HVIE Effective: 2008-01-23 Expires: 2018-03-03 Latitude: 32.267830 (32° 16' 4'' N) Longitude: -91.724253 (91° 43' 27'' W) Grid Square: EM42dg US State: Louisiana US County: Franklin Previous: KC5QXU ITU Zone: 7 CQ Zone: 4 Born: 1956 GMT Offset: -6 hours ULS Record: 698283 FCC page... Web Page: http://www.n5asa.com/ QSL Info: DIRECT OR EQSL.CC Admin For: (3) KD5CJT KD5LNF N5ASA

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Hello all,

My name is Larry ARS-N5ASA,Born in 1956. On September 15, 1995 (The day before my Birthday) I took and passed my Technician class License & Issued (KC5QXU), 6 mos. latter my Wife Cookie (KC5TYV) passed hers. 3 yrs latter my Son,Gary (KD5CJT) passed His, and my Daughter Jenny (KD5LNF) passed hers a year or so latter. Whew! All Ham Family! Now we got to work on the Grand kids. As far as myself,I have came up the ranks and acquired Extra Class in 1998. I have been a VE for ARRL & W5YI VEC, I have enjoyed Giving back to Ham radio. Promoting & Helping others to get interested and to get their Amateur Radio License.

Business: Owner of a small electronics repair company.

Public Service: Captain in our Local Volunteer Fire Department BFD in Baskin, Kudos goes out to Our Chief and all the Firefighters for Lowering our Fire Rating, from a 10 to a 6!

Elected official: (Sept. 2006-2010) to the office of Alderman (Councilman) in our small Village in Baskin,LA. Pop. 248 and I look forward to the betterment of our community.

Appointments: EC (Emergency Coordinator)here in Franklin Parish, La. (We don't have Counties) here in Cajun Country.

Member: ARRL / ARES / VE also VE for W5YI, Skywarn Storm Spotter,ARRL Instructor and Life Member in the NRA,"Six Club" member #350. SMIRK # 6685

Contesting,I have worked alot of contests and alot I have yet to enter,it is a Challenge,FUN to do and self satisfying, knowing and trying to get a better score than the last contest. I love chasing DX & collecting "Wall Paper",I Love 6m!I won "First Place" ARRL June VHF Contest 2001/2003/2004/2005 & 2006 single op, Low power in LA Secetion. I did not get to enter in 2002,2007 & 2008. I hope to see what I can do this year 2009. UPDATE: I got to work the June VHF Contest, but from my work QTH 100 watts,6m M2 Loop @ 15'..Wish I were at the Home QTH. Blah!

Active: on HF/VHF/UHF and love to work the Digital modes, SSB,FM,AM,PSK,SSTV,Amtor,Pactor,RTTY,ATV (No activity in my area),.....CW occasionally seems I've lost some speed.

Other: I Love to help others on their "Charlie Whiskey" so they can get their upgrade and get more folks interested in the Ham Radio hobby and get involved with ARES & Skywarn, and Promoting Amateur Radio.

Station Set-up: My Ham Shack 14'x 28'x 8' Out building I built myself a several years ago, it's comfortable.

Equipment:

HF: Icom IC-756 Pro,Icom IC-756,Icom IC-725,Kenwood TS-940SAT,Yaesu FT-890.

VHF/UHF: Icom IC-2800H 2m/70cm,(2) FT-2800M 2m,Yeasu FT-8100 2m/70cm , Icom W2A 2m,70cm HT,Standard C558a 2m.70cm HT & Icom IC-W2 Dual-band 2m/70cm.

Accesories: W2IHY 8 band EQ,W2IHY EQplus (2) Heil Mic HM-10 duel element,Heil GM-5, (3) Heil Proset headset for contesting,A Shure 55SW "Elvis Mic" Both on a Boom,

Amplifiers: Heathkit SB-221 2x 3-500z 2kw 15m-80m, Heathkit SB-200 10-80m Amplifier w/(2)572b tubes,& Harris RF103a Amplifier 2-30 mhz. (1) 3-1000 Tube. Mirage B3016 160 watt VHF Amp., 2m 160 watt Tokyo-Hipower.

Misc.: (2) MFJ 986 Differential-T tuner.Nye Viking MB-IV Tuner, Rigblaster M8 PC to rig interface.Mirage 6m KP-1/Pre-Amlifier

PC's: #1 HP Compaq 3.4 gig mhz. proc. 80 gig HD DVD,CDRW, 2 Gig RAM WinXP Pro. #2 Homebrew pc 1700 mhz 80 Gig HD, 512 Ram op: WinXP Pro, Dell Inspiron 6000 1.3 mhz, 2g RAM,60g drive Notebook.

Ham Software: N3FJP's ACLog,MMSTV,MRTTY,WinPSKse,Hamscope,Echo-Link,Ham Radio Deluxe & various others.

Tower/Antennas:  Three Towers up,197' , 75', 43'.

The 197':Fed with 7/8" Andrews Ridged, RCS-8V 5 pos. Remote switch box,HAM 3 Rotor. Antennas: 26b2 @ 197' 2m vert.,6 ele Quad 70cm vert. polarized @ 197', Tennadyne T31 31 Ele (50mhz to 1300mhz) @185'. 2m J-Poles @ 100' & 175', 75m Inverted V @ 100' I am Currently working on my 160m Inverted V @ 175'.

70' tower:  I have RCS-8V 5 pos. remote switch box, Tail Twister Rotor. @ 75' a TET HB-6F8 26' 8 Element 6m Yagi Horiz.,@ 70' Hygain TH5 5 ele. Tri-bandier, 80m Double Bazooka @ 50' and 40m Double Bazooka @ 50'.

Work QTH: 43' Tower: 75m inverted V wire, 10m A99 vertical, 6m M2 Loop @ 15'.

Update: I am going to put a18' 24 element M2 70cm ssb yagi & the36' 18 element M2 2m ssb yagi up and move the 26' TET 8 element 6m ssb yagi up on the big tower.

currently: Working on building WebPages for fun, My personal page is at http://www.n5asa.com/

73 & thanks for Looking! CU on the Air-Waves!

de N5ASA