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Thank you to everyone that worked N6PSE from the Point Pinos Lighthouse on 8/30/09 from 2030UTC to 2330UTC. We plan to activate more West Coast Lighthouses soon!  The new Alcatraz special event QSL cards have arrived and are going out in the mail. Thanks for waiting!

Special Thanks to everyone that worked the N6PSE-Lighthouse Special Event from Alcatraz!  Saturday, August 15, 2009.

Please send a SASE for a special QSL card. This event commemorates the 75th Anniversary of Alcatraz Federal Prison. More pictures are posted on my website at: http://www.n6pse.com/Events_Page.html

N6PSE operates 100% from solar power on Field Day.

This is our solar panel set up, with Buddipole and Yaesu FT857D.

N6PSE makes micro-DXpedition to the UK, France, Italy.

I had the pleasure of visiting the Vatican while in Rome. N6PSE in Paris.

 N6PSE visits Buckingham Palace and the Roman Coliseum.

N6PSE visits Turkey and works AO-51 from SV5/Dodacanese.

N6PSE visits Ho Chi Minh City and Giza/Cairo Egypt.

N6PSE visits the USS Missouri KH6BB in Pearl Harbor. HF "Go Kit" with Yaesu FT857D, LDG tuner, battery and power supply. Complete HF Micro-Dxpedition kit.

Take a look at the N6PSE website at http://www.n6pse.com

Visalia 2009 International DX Convention pictures here: http://www.n6pse.com/Visalia_2009.html

Hello from Paul N6PSE

I operate from San Jose, Northern California. I am a life long northern California resident. I am a member of AMSAT, The Northern California DX Foundation, the Northern California DX Club and a Life member of both the ARRL and INDEXA. In addition to amateur radio, I love to travel and operate as the DX whenever I can.

I work in the Information Technology industry here in Silicon Valley.

I am very active on SSB/RTTY/PSK on 10, 15, 17 and 20 meters. I really enjoy chasing new DXCC entities. Here is a picture of my "shack".

In addition to operating as N6PSE, I have operated from the following entities:

The UK, France, Italy, Alaska, Hawaii, BVI, US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, St. Lucia,Barbados, Grand Cayman, Mexico, Turkey, Egypt, Dodacanese (Rhodes)Greece, Japan, and Vietnam.

My visit to Cairo/Giza in Egypt was amazing!

My next DXpedition will be to Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos in 2010.

My station consists of two operating positions. Position 1 is an Icom IC-7800, Alpha 9500 Amplifier, Alpha 4520 wattmeter, the mic is a Heil PR-780 on a Heil boom. I process my audio with a W2IHY 8 band audio equalizer and noise gate. Position #2 is a Yaesu FT1000MP with the Yaesu Quadra VL1000 Amp,the mic is a Yaesu MD200. My main antenna is a three element SteppIR yagi antenna atop my US Tower MA-550MDP, 60 feet above the ground. In addition, I use a Alpha-Delta 40/80 dipole for those bands.

Towers 1 & 2 at my QTH.

For Satellite and local communications, I also operate an ICOM IC-910H, a pair of rack mounted Icom IC-970As and a Yaesu FT847 for local communications, primarily on 146.520 (FM)or 50.125 mhz, (SSB)

I monitor 1287.7 FM, 146.52FM and 50.125 USB almost all the time when I am in my radio room. A web cam may be coming soon!

I'm active on APRS with my Kenwood D700, Dell laptop running UI-View32 and Precision Mapping 6.0

I also monitor local weather conditions with my Davis Instruments Vantage Pro 2 and Peet Brothers weather stations. I monitor regional weather radar with my SwiftWX Professional 2.7 software on a dedicated laptop.

For mobile operating, I use a Yaesu FT8900 and a FT857D in the Ford F250 mobile with the ATAS 120 mobile antenna. I run an Icom IC-208H in the Honda Civic Hybrid.

In my spare time I like to tinker with and drive my 1924 Brockway LaFrance Torpedo-Chemical Fire Truck. She is a beauty!

My hobbies are ham radio,SCUBA diving and collecting antique fire trucks and equipment.

You can see more of the N6PSE ham station at http://www.n6pse.com

I'm thrilled to report that my son Ryan has earned his Technicians license and now holds the call of N6RYN.

Future DXpeditions: Cambodia 2010, Iraq 2010, Egypt 2010.

Ryan N6RYN makes his first contacts on VHF and HF.

Ryan N6RYN and I both look forward to working you and exchanging QSL cards.

Flag Counter date: June 24th, 2009

73's

Paul/N6PSE