Photo: LaBelle, Florida on the Caloosahatchee River (aerial photo by Don Browne)

Active in ham radio since the 1990s and early on joined the Navy/Marine Corps MARS radio network, forwarding messages from servicemen on ship duty to their families in the USA, and served with local Emergency Radio Nets in Dade and Hendry county as an official RACES member.

Don wrote monthly articles for many years for the Florida Skip, CyberSkip, and CyberHam magazines and is also a member of the Knights of the Kilocycles. The Knights are an historic ham radio net, now in its 82th year (as of 2012), and ham radio's oldest continuous existing regular weekly net, having begun in 1929. You can listen or check-in to the Knight's net every Sunday morning at 7:30 a.m ET. Eastern time on 3.910 mhz. The "Old Goats" net, with some of the same hams uses the 3.910 frequency during the other six days of the week, also at 7:30 a.m. ET.

Knights of the Kilocycle: http://sites.google.com/site/donbrowne/knights

For several years Don did live webcam streaming, sometimes even using a3-D webcam. You may watch previously recorded video featuring ham radio and chatting with folks from arond the world at:http://justin.tv/kq4ym

And recently Don have been experimenting with HD SSTV, high definition photographs received by radio using the DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) digital mode. Some examples of HD photos receivedby my ham radio station in LaBelle, Florida.

The latest HD image received by DRM tranmission at KQ4YM's radio station:

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A former high school music teacher,Don worked as a commercial radio announcer, news director (WAFC-FM, Clewiston, Fl.), and radio station manager (WWWD-FM, LaBelle, Fl.).

Donald also edited and wrote for a weekly Hendry County newspaper in the early 2000s. He currently publishes the Sunday Morning News Online ( http://swflorida.blogspot.com) in LaBelle, Florida and does commercial aerial photography.

Don uses an Icom IC-737, wire dipole antennas for 40, 75, and 17 meters, Dell and Google Chromebook computers.