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Originally licensed as KB7QPA in 1992 it took an earth quake
here in the Seattle area a few years back to get me active in
ham radio again (all to my wife's dismay ;-)
The current radio setup includes an IC-746PRO, IC-706MKIIG, and
my faithful TS-520S. Antennas are always changing, either by
design or due to the weather...
I'm big on KB6KQ's loops for 50MHz and above. Several VHF/UHF
yagis also grace my roof line. For HF I use wire and lots of it.
Mostly dipoles. I can't seem to get beyond their simplicity. A
Force-12 Sigma5 is on order and it will be my first commercially
produced antenna for HF. My ham radio therapy group is really
proud of this 'first step' into unabashed antenna consumerism.
They are all envious.
(Update: Jan 20, 2003) My Sigma 5 is a 'happening thing'. It
seems to be a great trade-off between footprint and
effectiveness. I only wish I money for more Force-12 verticals.
My favorite bits of spectrum include 144.220 SSB and 3.904 SSB
in the evenings and 14.200 SSB and 14.070.15 PSK31 with band
openings.
When I'm not playing radio for fun or working for Marconi doing
networking stuff I wrestle with my kids, feed the cat, kiss the
wife and contemplate the metaphysics behind "why am I never
in any of the pictures that I take?" But not necessarily in
that order.
73, w7gtm
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