GENERAL QSL INFO: Please QSL direct w/SASE; $1 required for DX requests.  QSLs received with SASEs are generally answered the day they are received. QSL requests received via the bureau will not be answered.  I upload all logs to LoTW and eQSL, usually very soon after the QSO, or at the end of a contest. Please e-mail me if you expected a LoTW or eQSL match but didn't get one.

NV4B/5 -I operated the 2011 ARRL June VHF QSO Party and CQWW VHF Contest as NV4B/5, single-op QRP portable from Woodall Mountain, the highest point in Mississippi, in EM54vs, Tishomingo County. The NV4B/5 log has been uploaded to LoTW and eQSL. QSL cards are also available.

About Me

• First licensed June 17, 1996 as KF4KLG at age 13; received Advanced class callsign KT4XA in October 1996, and upgraded to Extra in June 1997. Current callsign "bought" in September 2000.
• Employed as a software engineer writing primarily DSP-controller interface software for VoIP hardware; also a part-time staff engineer for two broadcast radio stations

On-Air Activities

• QRV mostmodes 80m-6m
• Casual contester, even more casual DX'er
• Primary station equipment: Ten-Tec Omni V,Yaesu FT-847, Solarcon A99 vertical on 50' tower, G5RV at 30' (which would explain the "casual" qualifier above)
• Homebrewing/QRP -- I usually operate a Yaesu FT-817 when I operate QRP, but I do have a few homebrew radios I operate on rare occasion.

Awards

All earned with 100W and simple wire or vertical antennas:

• 5BDXCC #7,587
• DXCC
  • Mixed #42,486 endorsed to 150
  • Phone #41,302endorsed to 150
  • CW #13,576endorsed to 150
  • 80m #3,628
  • 40m #6,050
  • 20m
  • 15m
  • 10m #34,436
• Diamond DXCC
• WAS - 160m CW #1,180
• 5BWAS #2,996. 6th band 12/18/10 (160m); 7th band 9/5/11 (17m) ; 8th band 12/10/11 (12m). One state to go on 30m!
• TPWAS #538
• VUCC 6m #2,032 endorsed to 125 grids

Memberships

• Alabama Contest Group
• 10-10 Int'l (#68980)