Thanks for looking me up! I got my technician license on December 13, 2004 as KCØTNJ. Got the vanity call of KDØJBN on January 10, 2006 and upgraded to General on March 19, 2007. My interest in ham radio goes back to about 1977 when I was in 7th or 8th grade. I was working with an Elmer to learn code, how radios work, the rules, etc. After a few months of this my Elmer became a silent key. So, it all got put on the back burner for a LOOOONG time.

For the most part I'm an appliance operator, but I've gotten facinated with antennas and have homebrewed all of my antennas for home use. The only antennas I've bought commercially have been a couple mag mounts for the car.

A friend/Elmer of mine here in St Louis (Steve - WØSJS) gave me a Ten Tec Scout so I could get on HF after upgrading to General. Thanks Steve I truely appreciate it! I made my first HF contact on it October 19, 2007 with AA1KS out on Moose Island, Maine.

My sister recently got her Technician license and will be on the air soon.  She bought a Yaesu FT-2900, a power supply and 50 feet of coax.  All she's waiting on is for me to make an antenna for her - she has to have at least one thing that's home-brewed.  After we get her rig all hooked up I'll be showing her how to use IRLP so she can hit a few farther off places before she upgrades. Anyway, her callsign is KD8MGB.

Now to the personal stuff - I'm married with three boys ages 15, 13 & 12. All three of the boys are in Boy Scouts. I'm an Assistant Scoutmaster in their troop and still active on the committee of the Pack they were in as Cub Scouts.

As an active Scout Leader, I also work on combining radio with Scouts.  For the past three years I have set up a Jamboree On The Air station at Beaumont Scout Camp just southwest of St Louis, Missouri.  To read more about our JOTA station, visit http://www.arrl.org/scouts/jota/Stories/ and select either 2007, 2008 or 2009 from the pull down menu then search for my callsign.

About my callsign. I get a lot of questions about why I have such a "strange" vanity callsign. It's to honor my family - my wife's name starts with K, my name starts with D, my three sons' names from oldest to youngest start with J, B & N and we live in "zero land".

Feel free to visit my web page - http://kd0jbn.webs.com/

73

Don - KDØJBN