Picture is of the Spiderbeam in use at P29VW, outside Port Moresby, capital of Papua New Guinea. Operation lasted from August 15 to August 25, 2008.

Home station: Main rigs, Elecraft K3, Elecraft K2/100 & Kenwood TS-850s; Portable, Elecraft K3, K2 & K1; Vintage rigs Yaesu FTDX 401 system with FL2000B amp, (Yaesu FT301, currently with my son KD7QFS in Portland), and a good old Johnson Viking Valiant. [Rohn self-supporting 50' tower; TH-7DX & Hygain Quad tribanders. Not yet put up] Currently using a 5 band Spiderbeam wire yagi (14 elements on a 33ft boom, see www.spiderbeam.com & ARRL Product Review in July, 2005 QST) and a small screwdriver vertical on back patio.

NOTE PREVIOUS PORTABLE OPERATIONS:

Recent portable operation in Scotland from 1 Sept, 2011 to 18 Sept, as GM/N6JW. Using Elecraft K2 & screwdriver portable vertical ant.

Last major trip was to Southern Africa, 16 Dec 2010 to 2 Feb 2011. Operation as ZS1WN in South Africa, and a week of operation as 7P8JW from the Maluti mountains in the country of Lesotho. There I had a multi band spider beam and an inverted L for the lower bands. I used my K3 + P3 panadapter. I am now working on QSLIng for 7P8JW, but you will have to be patient as I had to log manually as my hard drive crashed before arrival in Lesotho. It will be "fun" as I made about 3500 contacts from 7P8.

Hawaii. February 2009. Maui and Oahu.

P29VW, outside Port Moresby, capital of Papua New Guinea. Operation lasted from August 15 to August 25, 2008. This trip also included casual operation as N6JW/VK and ZL/N6JW from August 5 to September 14, 2008.

Field day 2007: K2 & Spiderbeam @ 7500ft in the Angeles National Forest. 1B, QRP Battery.

May 2007: Portable operation, again from Florence Italy. K2/100 plus random wire in trees.

Between Christmas and New Year 06/07 portable in Portland OR. K2/100 and Spiderbeam.

Summer 2006: June 19 to July 21 operation from Kenya. Callsign 5Z4JX. K2/100 with Spiderbeam (5band 14element wire yagi + 35ft aluminum push-up mast; all packed & transported in a golfbag. 16 flights in all during the summer!). From Aug 3 to 29 from Australia & NZ. In Australia operated my nephew's station near Brisbane; in NZ as ZL/N6JW. QSL /07cards for 5Z4JX still coming. Please be patient.

17-28 March, 2006: operating as DL/N6JW from near Magdeburg, and Berlin, Germany. Rig was K2/100 and random wire ant.

October 12 to November 1, 2005 operation from UK (G/N6JW; mainly from Scotland as GM/N6JW), and Italy (I5/N6JW & I/N6JW in CQ WW SSB contest), using K2/100 and wire ant.

Operated summer 2004 from Europe and Africa. I was on the air running the K2 QRP from various European countries (primarily Holland, Germany and Denmark) from August 3 to 29, 2004. And operated from Kenya with the callsign 5Z4JX from August 30 to September 14, 2004.

Also operated portable from UK with an Elecraft K2 QRP transceiver, Buddipole/MP-1 & wire antennas from Aug 5 to Aug 27 2003; and from Zambia (9J2 in Central Africa) from Aug 28 to Sept 18, 2003. Callsigns used were G[or GW]/N6JW and 9J2JW.

I also still hold my original ham callsign, ZS1WN, Cape Town, South Africa. First licensed in 1969.

Former calls:

ZS1WN from 1969-1975 and again 1980- to present; ZS5WV, Durban, from 1975-1979; N8FST, Michigan from 1982-1992; AD6YW, for one day(!)in 2001.