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KI4KIE Brian T Qualls 1185 SNOW FARM RD NEWBERN, TN 38059 USA Lookups:   900 Ham Member
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QRZ Record: 1361444 Login to manage/edit Lookups: 900 (902) Mailing Label... QRZ Admin: KI4KIE Last Update: 2009-10-22 10:45:41 Class: Technician Codes: HAI Effective: 2009-04-07 Expires: 2015-05-23Apply for a Vanity callsign... Latitude: 36.078101 (36° 4' 41'' N) Longitude: -89.167056 (89° 10' 1'' W) Grid Square: EM56jb US State: Tennessee US County: Dyer GMT Offset: -6 hours ULS Record: 2720553 FCC page... Web Page: http://www.myspace.com/thecowboy23 QSL by Mail?: Yes (e.g. Will this ham QSL by Postal Mail?) QSL by eQSL?: No (e.g. Will this ham QSL with eQSL?) Uses LOTW?: No (e.g. Does this ham use ARRL's LOTW ?) Admin For: (1) KI4KIE

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Pleasure to me that you looked me up!  HA!  Here's my short and sweet preamble....   I'm married to a beautiful lady and we have a one year old little girl together that is already a future HAM in the making!  Still trying to get the XYL at least her Tech. ticket.  I work at a radio station cluster in Dyersburg, Tennessee (WTRO-AM, WASL-FM, WTNV-FM) ... as an on-air guy and papercut expert.  :oP      I enjoy broadcasting as a job, and QSO as a hobby, and the public service things that go hand in hand with both of them.

Above is my mistake when I installed the short beam and rotor; horizontal is SB and vertical is FM.... DUH...  I knew better than that...  ha!

Interfaces / Rigs Include:

* Echolink simplex node (experimental) 296280 (KI4KIE-L)
I am bound/determined to get my controller completed for my Kenwood so I can do EL simplex.

* Kenwood TH-K2AT HT transceiver @ 5w, now in the ham shack for the moment...it still gets out good at just under 5w after all these years of use... unlike my 50w 2m mobile that I burned out the finals.... oops!  That's why they make SWR meters.

* APRS node KI4KIE-1 (Home & WX Station)
  APRS node KI4KIE (at Work, or while I'm out & about)

(I'm living in the stone age, I need some real radios!  5w really doesn't do jack, does it?)

 

11/17/2009:
I am updating this biography because it's a mess.  :oP  My station setup is complete, but you would be pleased to know that I am working on getting my no-key General... because ... well, there is just more people out there outside of 2m.  It's amazing what you can do with a wave and little power.

 

9/9/2009: 

*** NEW: Now on APRS!!  KI4KIE-1 (HOME, & WX STATION), KI4KIE Work, maybe a KI4KIE-3 in the future??? Possibly a mobile rig???  :o)   *****
I'm still learning APRS as I go.  Did you know that when some APRS stations talk with one another, that it is plotted on a map showing the DX conditions for 2m?  Check this out...

http://www.mountainlake.k12.mn.us/ham/aprs/path.cgi?map=na

 

 

***  5/??/2009: 
The HAM SHACK has been ordered, set up, wired up, and ALMOST ready for insulation and finishing out... its just a shell (and a shed) for what's to come... pictures coming soon as well for this project.

Welcome to the HAM Shack!  The new, and ongoing, 2009 project!  (Someone got their hair cut too short...)

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There are a lot of good folks that have helped me get this far along the way, you all know who you are, and I appreciate everything you all have done for me.  Good friends... none better!

 

My first ever contact in this hobby was a man in New Zealand on Echolink back in 2005.  These digital modes are fun to work, too!

Hopefully, will soon be a member of the K4DYR radio club in Newbern/ Dyer County.  I am a shameless promoter of HAM radio when I do my air shifts on WTRO, WASL or WTNV (that is, when a HAM event is coming up, I try and plug it as much as possible).

**NEW**  The tower IS up, with a bunch of stuff on it, but will have to soon be rewired and reposition what's on it.

Feel free to send me an e-mail.  I although you may not hear me on the air very often, I listen to Dyersburg and Union City repeaters... and if you're nearby, 146.500 simplex I'm always listening to.

"My most favoritest lil' girl in the whole world!"

 

 

 

And now... some of my favorite links...

My job:
sl100rocks.com

My home beacon:
http://findu.aprsfl.net/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=ki4kie-1


Short and sweet.... there you go.

73 de Brian (KI4KIE)