Thanks for stopping by.   I started out as an "BCB & SW DX'er" as a young boy growing up in southeastern South Dakota, tuning in am and sw stations on an old Realistic "all-band" transistor radio, and that spurred my interest in amateur radio.

My "Elmer" was Melvin Johnson SK,  Alcester, SD.  can't remember his call, but he would invite me to his ham shack and peruse his logs and his vast qsl collection, and make a few qso's, and I was hooked.

When I was a Senior in high school, I drove to Sioux Falls and took and passed the test for my "3rd Class Radiotelephone License with endorsement" !   And found a job out of High School at KVDB in Sioux Center, Iowa,  then KISD in Sioux Falls SD in 1970.  

In 1972,  I accepted a job at KNOM Radio in Nome Ak and that's how I made it to Alaska, Seemed everyone at KNOM was a Ham!  More "Elmers" plus the Collins KWM-2 and 30S-1 Linear and a beam on a really tall telephone pole! 

I Finally Received my Novice ticket Sept. 8, 1978 with the call WL7ADG and started with an HW-8 to an all-band trap dipole! Earned my General ticket in 1979, kept WL7ADG and in the early 1980's, when the FCC offered 2x2's to KL7's I received my current call of KL7OH.

I Spent many years on Sarichef Island IOTA NA-152 in the Inupiat Eskimo village of Shishmaref Alaska 120 miles north of Nome in northwest Alaska. Sure had fun working the Pileups!  I think that's how  I got WAS and DXCC taken care of, hi.

I am now in the foothills 4 miles north of downtown Fairbanks. Running a Kenwood TS-430S barefoot to an 80m LP Carolina Windom...great antenna up 30 feet...and a MFJ-1798 80-2m vertical, which I use for 2m and 6m (BP64dv).   I also have a Cushcraft MA5B up 25 feet.

 I enjoy receiving your qsl's the old fashioned way ! Direct (sase appreciated) or via the KL7 QSL Bureau, PO Box 520343, Big Lake AK 99652, or via the ARRL bureau.  I QSL 100%. I also use LOTW and EQsl, and ask you to please follow it up with a "real qsl"!

Gud dx to you es hope to meet you on the bands

"Charlie" KL7 Out House