Bill in Hagerstown, Maryland

First licensed in 1963, practicing attorney, interests include AM, CW, SSB, DX, SDR, Mac computers, digital photography

HF Shack

Icom IC-765; Ameritron AL-800; K7DYY Super Senior AM transmitter ; RF Space SDR-IQ receiver, Sennheiser MD-441U microphone, W2IHY 8-Band EQ, EQ-Plus; N8LP LP-100;N2DAN Mercury paddle; Daiwa Keyer; MicroHAM MicroKeyer; West Mountain Radio CLRdsp; JPS NIR-10; JPS ANC-4; DV Dongle.

HF Antennas

Sommer XP-406; 525-foot Horizontal Loop, 75m. Inverted V

Software

MacLoggerDX, SpectraVue SDR, CocoaModem, DV Tool

Mobile

Yaesu FT-857D, ATAS 120A

Other

ARRL Volunteer Counsel (zoning and land use law)

About my QTH

Hagerstown (population 39,000) is in Washington County (population 147,000), in the Cumberland Valley, near the intersection of Interstate Routes 70 and 81, and about 70 miles west of Washington, DC.

Hagerstown is the burial place of Hiram Percy Maxim, founder of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL).

Washington County was the site of the Civil War Battle of Antietam at Sharpsburg, September, 1862.