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I’m a transplanted Army Brat from Ft. Mammoth New Jersey and Ft. Campbell Kentucky (Dad, 101st Airborne). Originally licensed in high school as KA7SDP taking the code test from the FCC in down town Phoenix. As a novice on a budget my first transceiver was a Heath Kit HW-101 that I spent months working the bugs out of. (Lesson learned, never depend on the soldering skills of others). I later operated a Siltronix 1011D to warm up the shack and handle 10 meter work. My next big leap was the hybrid Kenwood TS-520S/MC-50, (what an audio file charmer that was). During my college and child rearing years was inactive for ~23 years less some occasional VHF mobile activity during travel to the northern Arizona home. After 9/11 our boys answered the nations call to serve by joining the Army's 82nd Airborne Ft. Bragg & Navy's SWCC Seal Beach. Now empty nesters I'm enjoying the hobby again and looking forward to meeting you on the air.
Background & interests Engineer, Small Business Owner, former Law Enforcement. Enjoy family, Ham/SWL, Kenwood equipment, Archaeology, Paleontology, Geology, Hunting, PBR Bull riding fan, everything outdoors. Phoenix station, elevation 1,166 ft. Twin Kenwood TS-440S/AT general coverage transceivers, matching power supplies/speakers driven by Kenwood MC-60A & MC-90 microphones. CW is handled using the famously smooth Bencher BY-1 Iambic paddle with MFJ- 422D keyer. Stations sampled through a Kenwood KW-2000 dual-meter. HF stimulus provided by an Ameritron 811. Antennas managed with the MFJ-989c 1.5 KW roller inductor tuner to an MFJ-4602 I/O feed-thru panel connecting the Alfa Delta flat top dipole, Cushcraft AR-10 and random wire antennas. ICOM provides the 2m/70cm bands via a Hy-gain VB-25FM 5 element beam and Diamond X-200A.
Northern Arizona station, elevation 6,300 ft. Kenwood TS-440S/AT, hand microphone to an Alfa Delta DX80 inverted V at 60ft strung between Ponderosa pines. ICOM 2100 VHF driving into a Cushcraft Ringo AR-2 VHF at 40ft for FM work. We are fortunate to live, fish, canoe, hunt, hike and operate Amateur Radio in the beautiful hunting lodge country of western novelist Zane Grey.
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