ONE OF THE LAST COURTESIES OF THE QSO IS A SASE....POSTAGE IS EXPENSIVE....PLEASE SEND A SELF ADDRESSED STAMPED ENVELOPE IF YOU WANT A QSL....THANKS!

Hi! My name is Jim. I am 50 years old. I have three daughters and one son. I am originally from Kansas City.

I was a Staff Sergeant, in the U.S. Army for 9 years, and have been to Egypt and spent two years in Korea. After the Army I went to Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas where I graduated with a B.A. in History. I then joined the U.S. Air Force and completed my military career retiring as a Captain. I had numerous assignments and you may have worked me from any number of them. I was a Minuteman ICBM Missile Launch Officer in North Dakota. I worked at Cheyenne Mountain, NORAD, Space Control Center, where I monitored satellites, determined where reentering objects would land on earth, worked with NASA assisting with the Space Shuttle and the MIR, and other space related stuff.

I have a Kenwood T2000 and operate 100W with a wire antenna stretched between a couple of trees. Not a very elaborate station! I have worked about 292 countries mixed mode, about 276 on phone, and 259 on CW. I have 8BDXCC (10,12,15,17,20,30,40,and 80 meters) with 40 countries on 160 meters. I have recently started operating on 6 meters and RTTY. I enjoy IOTA with about 405 islands confirmed. My thanks to all the good DXers who respond to my QSL, green stamp, and SASE. Your good ears and good manners make the hobby enjoyable. I use LOTW and encourage others to take advantage of this service. (Go to http://www.arrl.org/lotw for details) I have input all of my DX contacts from my old paper logs. If there is a stateside QSO you would like for me to enter into LOTW, just let me know via email and I will go back into my paper log, find the contact and input it into LOTW. My other hobbies are coin/currency collecting, genealogy, and fishing.

If I can ever be of any assistance to you, please let me know. I always respond to direct QSLs with SASE and special requests (like if you collect stamps, I send some. If you need a QSL forwarded to someone, I do that.) I use Logbook of the World. If you need a QSL from an old contact I can input that into LOTW from my paper logs, just let me know. (I have input all DX QSOs since 1992.) My old call was KB5SXG, when I lived in Texas. I lived in North Dakota and got the AAØMZ call there. I also operated from my homes in Colorado Springs, Colorado and Cheyenne, Wyoming. I now live in the beautiful rural town of Wetmore, Kansas (Nemaha County).

Take care, good DX, 73 and see you on the bands! Jim (AAØMZ)

ONE OF THE LAST COURTESIES OF THE QSO IS A SASE....POSTAGE IS EXPENSIVE....PLEASE SEND A SELF ADDRESSED STAMPED ENVELOPE IF YOU WANT A QSL....THANKS!

Rev: AA0MZ - Thu Feb 18 16:44:44 1999