Thanks for the lookup!

A 32-year Ham this year -- time and our signals really fly! Steve was first licensed when he was fifteen.

Background:

In 2006, Steve retired from the USAF after 21-years of service -- 12-years on Active-Duty and 9-years as an Air Guardsman. His great Air Force electronics foundation and perseverance led to a parallel and continuing career as a RF/telecommunications technician, a systems & network engineer, RF telecom consultant and project manager. Steve is presently an Engineer for a small telephone company in Anchorage, AK.

Home station at the moment:

---- HF ----

• Kenwood and Yaesu HF gear
• Alpha 374A HF Amplifier (new front panel & rebuilt HV power supply)

---- TEST BENCH ----

• HP 8924C Analog and CDMA Communications Test Set -- fully optioned
• Tektronix 100 MHz Dual-Channel Digital Storage O'scope
• Racal 1991 and HP Frequency Counters
• 10 MHz Rubidium Reference Oscillator
• Fluke DVMs and HP VTVM

---- ANTENNA SYSTEMS ----

• 180 ft. flat-top fed with 450 ohm ladder-line at 50 feet AGL -- tuned with a Palstar AT1500BAL balanced line antenna tuner and/or an MFJ-986 differential-T antenna tuner
• Hustler 4-BTV vertical with 30 each 33 foot radials
• Hustler G7 two-meter co-linear vertical at 40 feet AGL

---- SWL ----

• Icom IC-R75 - the rig drives a Bogen C-20 audio amplifier which, in turn, drives a JBL Pro III monitor speaker - Inverted-L longwire

---- VHF/UHF ----

• Alinco, Yaesu, and Icom 2 meter and 70 cm base, mobile and portable gear

73 de Steve, NL7W; Birdie, WL7QJ; David, KL1TN; Joseph, Megan and our remaining dog, Yukon (an Iditarod sled dog mutt)