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AE5JU PAUL R COATS 405 NEPTUNE STREET MORGAN CITY, LA 70380 USA Lookups:   2026 Ham Member
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QRZ Record: 1595301 Login to manage/edit Lookups: 2026 (2194) Mailing Label... QRZ Admin: AE5JU Last Update: 2010-01-22 15:01:53 Class: Extra Codes: HAI Effective: 2008-10-16 Expires: 2018-10-16Apply for a Vanity callsign... Latitude: 29.687691 (29° 41' 15'' N) Longitude: -91.268658 (91° 16' 7'' W) Grid Square: EL49iq US State: Louisiana US County: Saint Mary Born: 1952 GMT Offset: -6 hours ULS Record: 3050019 FCC page... QSL Info: I REALLY PREFER TO GET A REAL POSTCARD TYPE QSL CARD. QSL by Mail?: Yes (e.g. Will this ham QSL by Postal Mail?) QSL by eQSL?: Yes (e.g. Will this ham QSL with eQSL?) Uses LOTW?: No (e.g. Does this ham use ARRL's LOTW ?) Admin For: (1) AE5JU

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I was given my first soldering iron when I was 8 years old.  I built crystal radios, various projects from the pages of Electronics Illustrated and Popular Electronics magazines, kits from Knight and Heathkit. Though I was interested in amateur radio I never quite made it that far back then.

Most of my electronic experience has been in audio gear, Musical Instrument and PA, home stereo gear, and speaker design. I have a few articles as DIY columnist for Affordable Audio.

With the help of a number of good friends, most notably K9ZW, here I am finally.  On October 16, 2008 I was listed on the ULS and have an Amateur Extra license.

As of February 26, 2009, I am a W5YI Contact Volunteer Examiner - 30069.  I am also accredited as an ARRL VE.

On September 9, 2009, I was elected Vice President of BEARS (Bayouland Emergency Amateur Radio Service - W5BMC) in Morgan City, LA.

I was appointed ARRL Technical Specialist on January 14, 2010.

Main rig:  Icom 718 with Samlex 1235M power supply, LDG IT-100 tuner, West Mountain Radio CLR-SPKR.  Rigblaster Plug & Play.  Antenna, 3 band dipole with sections for 75 meters, 40 meters, 20 meters.  Also works 17 and 15 meters via tuner. 

Recently I've added an Ameritron AL-811H amp with Svetlana 572B's, Ameritron ARB-704 buffer, and LDG AT-1000 tuner.

My 2 meter base rig is a Yaesu FT-2800M with a B-Square Engineering J-pole.

Mobile:  Yaesu FT-2800M with a Comet SBB-5 NMO antenna.

Backup rig (emergency kit):  a second Icom IC-718 with Samlex SEC-1223 power supply, LDG IT-100 tuner.  Secondary power, 2 pr RBC-6 batteries.

Details of my main antenna may be found at:

http://www.hamuniverse.com/ae5jumultibanddipole.html

Portable/emergency antennas:

http://www.hamuniverse.com/AE5JUHomebrewBuddipoleVariant.pdf

http://www.hamuniverse.com/ae5jufielddayantenna.html

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I am a saxophonist and have been writing for and performing with the Bayou Saxophone Ensemble in Thibodaux, Louisiana for the past 16 years. I also publish a number of compositions and arrangements for sax quartet, quintet, and sextet which are performed by us and other groups around the world.

A lot of people have asked, so here's the story on the big sax.  It's a bass saxophone, specifically, a Buescher True Tone Bass Saxophone c.1922 that I restored a few years ago.  So, what does this have to do with ham radio?  Well, not much with ham radio, but there is a radio connection.  Back in the early days of radio and phonograph recording it was observed that the usual dance orchestra bass instruments, string bass and tuba, did not record well, nor come over the radio well.  This was due to limitations of microphones, recording equipment, and playback equipment.  However the reedy tones of the bass saxophone could be easily heard.  Soon tuba and string bass players were switching to bass saxophone.  A few years later one manufacturer even produced a line of saxes with brighter, more projecting tone known as their "Radio Improved" models.

You will hear the bass saxophone in early Disney cartoons, and the "tag" at the end of the Three Stooges closing theme.  Here's a video of Red Nichols and his 5 Pennies, with a great bass sax solo by Joe Rushton beginning at 00:48.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WveEco2Rq2w

Later, with better recording and broadcasting equipment, as well as better playback equipment, the bass saxophone was replaced with tuba and string bass.  So that's the connection with radio.