After 18 years working overseas in the the Foreign Service at high power HF and MW transmitting stations of the Voice of America, KY4P retired at age 65 in February 2007 and now lives near West Jefferson in the mountains of Ashe County, North Carolina. The QTH is at 3,600' elevation on a side ridge of Mulatto Mountain.

KY4P was last known as S9SS for 5 years while serving as Station Manager at VOA's Sao Tome Transmitting Staton before retirement.   QSL cards for ONLY S9SS should go to QSL manager N4JR.

Please send QSL's for earlier DX calls, A25/KY4P, S92SS, A22AA, and SV0LM, with SASE to the address shown here for KY4P. PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANY QSL'S EXCEPT THOSE FOR S9SS TO N4JR! Jerry has ONLY the logs for S9SS.

All S9SS QSO's are on LoTW. The earlier logs were only paper logs. I have begun creating computer files of those logs that I am uploading to LoTW. It will take many years for me to complete the job at a few pages a week. I have already completed work on the smallest log, A25/KY4P, and I have uploaded it to LoTW. I am verly slowly working on the A22AA log.  I have already uploaded  1989 and 1990 of the A22AA log to LoTW.   I have begun working on 1991.

 Here at KY4P I am set up for CW and SSB on all bands from 160M through 6M.  My main rig is an ORION I with an ALPHA 87A amplifier.  On 160M I use a "compact folded T" vertical.  On 80M through 30M I use dipoles that are only about 30' up at their centers.  A two element SteppIR beam covers 20M through 6M.  The SteppIR is supported on a 55' telescoping tubular mast, but I seldom run it higher than 45' because it is often gusty here on this exposed mountain ridge.