My rig is an Icom 706mkIIg pushing 100 watts through a coax-coil + ferrite current choke to an Icom AH-4 automatic antenna coupler/tuner at the bottom of a 4.3m tall and 14.6m long dual element inverted "L" that is strung in the attic of my one-story home. The coupler ground side connects to a horizontally displaced ground rod which also supports a vertical conductive mast for a 2m band J-pole that tops out at 6.6m [please see: QST, Oct. 2007, p33]. The tuner-antenna combo covers 160m - 6m. Its a modest station, but good enough to earn "WAS", "WAC" and "DXCC", and to copy HAARP lunar echoes on 6.7925 MHz with "no visible means of antenna". I'm always looking for Asian stations hidden behind the Auroral oval.

Originally licensed as WN2PGH, my first rig was a homebrew 6L6 oscillator and Hallicrafters SX-110 receiver. I soon upgraded the TX to a pair of 1625s driven by a 6AG7 oscillator, and the roof sprouted a wideband "conical monopole" antenna. Founded TimeDerivative Inc. [http://www.timederivative.com ] in 2003, a wireless consulting services and Ultra-Wideband (UWB) radio technology company. I'm a member of the SAREX (SpaceAmateur Radio Experiment) team, life member of AMSAT, member of ARRL, and ARRL RF Safety Committee, and I'm an ARRL Technical Advisor. I like chasing DX, and currently am looking for Asia on 10m and 15m to complete 5-band WAC. The extra 16 dB that CW has over SSB helps with my modest station, so please look for me at the CW end of the HF bands!

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