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NZ4O THOMAS F GIELLA 5905 COLONY PLACE DRIVE LAKELAND, FL 33813 USA Lookups:   21773 Ham Member
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QRZ Record: 1615131 Login to manage/edit Lookups: 21773 (7723) Mailing Label... QRZ Admin: NZ4O Last Update: 2009-10-31 19:45:55 Class: Extra Codes: HVIE Effective: 2009-02-18 Expires: 2019-02-18 Latitude: 27.957390 (27° 57' 26'' N) Longitude: -81.946300 (81° 56' 46'' W) Grid Square: EL97aw US State: Florida US County: Polk Previous: KN4LF ITU Zone: 8 CQ Zone: 5 Born: 1957 GMT Offset: -5 hours ULS Record: 3079274 FCC page... Web Page: http://www.nz4o.org QSL Info: LOTW & EQSL, DIRECT W/SASE OR IRC, NO BURO QSL by Mail?: Yes (e.g. Will this ham QSL by Postal Mail?) QSL by eQSL?: Yes (e.g. Will this ham QSL with eQSL?) Uses LOTW?: Yes (e.g. Does this ham use ARRL's LOTW ?) Admin For: (4) F8BNN HB9CAL NZ4O UT4ES

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Most hams know me as KN4LF. I received sequential callsign KN4LF beginning on June 26, 1990 when I upgraded to Advanced class. On December 18, 2008 I upgraded to Amateur Extra class and on February 18, 2009 I received vanity call NZ4O.

If you are a born again Christian or would like to become one check out http://www.wcflunatall.com/kn4lf77.htm . A fundamental truism is that as a Christian I am not perfect just forgiven. Though I live my life in a sanctified manner, which means that I follow God's ten commandments and Jesus' teachings to the best of my fallible human ability, I still slip up at times and commit sin. I ask God for forgiveness for that sin, he forgives me and then I move on. It's just that simple.

My grandfather had a 1960 Zenith Royal 50 all transistor portable (huge by today's standards) AM radio and a 1959 tube type Zenith AM/FM table top radio. In 1965 when I was 8 years old he began letting me listen to both Zenith radios at day and night. My fascination with radio really took off after I heard stations from far away at night time like KFI 640 kc in Los Angeles, WABC 770 kc in New York City, KOA 850 kc in Denver and KSL 1160 kc In Salt Lake City.

In the 1970's I became interested in shortwave radio by accident. I had purchased one of the very sensistive Radio Shack TRF MF AM broadcast band receivers, added to long of an outside antenna, the receiver suffered signal overload intermod and I heard HCJB in Ecuador (9745 kc frequency). In the mid 1980's I became interested in ham radio after discovering AM'ers operating on 80 meters.

I have quite a number of interests within our great hobby. They include ionosphere radio wave propagation data collection, study and forecasting. If you are interested in radiowave radiowave propagation check out

NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm

NZ4O Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o3.htm

NZ4O 160 Meter Radio Propagation Theory Notes:

NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Raw Forecast Data Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o6.htm 

NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data In Graphic & Image Format: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o2.htm

NZ4O Solar Cycle 24 Forecast Discussion & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm  

COL LF/MF/HF/VHF/UHF Frequency Radiowave
Propagation Email Reflector: http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/spaceweather .

I also enjoy antenna design/modeling, construction and experimentation, DX'ing, contesting, digital modes operation such as BPSK31, MFSK16 and RTTY and AM, CW and SSB. I operate on 160-2 meters but most of the time I can be found on 160, 80, 40, 20 and 6 meters.

I entered the realm of contesting in 2006 but so far I have limited myself to RTTY only. I especially enjoy RTTY contesting as I'm competing with top notch hams that make me look like a rank amateur, no pun intended.

I'm also an active SWL and spend quite a bit of time DX'ing the LF/MF/HF bands both broadcast and utility. I began SWL'ing in 1965. On shortwave I have confirmed over 200 countries.

As far as weather I'm involved in the Skywarn program (ID POL-10A) going back to 1973. I was involved in professional severe storm research between 1988 and 1996 in the Great Plains. If you are interested in weather check out Florida & U.S. Raw Weather Forecasting Resource Links http://www.wcflunatall.com/kn4lf13.htm , Lakeland, FL Weather Observations http://www.wcflunatall.com/index1.html and Lakeland, FL Daily Climatological Weather Data Archive http://www.wcflunatall.com/kn4lf22.htm.

My station setup includes two Icom IC-746 Pro's, two Ameritron AL-811 amplifiers with 572B's and five antennas. It is an SO2R contesting setup. The antennas are a 160 meter broad banded coaxial inverted L up at 40 feet http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o10.htm ,an 80 meter horizontal full wave loop up at 35 feet for 80-10 meter operation http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o15.htm ,a K4TR Antennas 3/2 wave doublet up at 30 feet for 6 meters and a KI4EFL 1/2 wave J-Pole up at 25 feet for 2 meters. I also use an all band ten element omnidirectional beam on a very fast rotator.

As far as QSLing I use ARRL LOTW AND eQSL. A direct QSL is okay too with an SASE or IRC. I don't use the Bureau.

I QSL 100% of the time. As I receive dozens of QSL cards every month the postal costs are high and rising. If you want a direct QSL card from me state side please include an SASE. If you are overseas please include a return envelope, a U.S. $1 bill or one IRC. If I receive a request for a return QSL card and you don't include postage as described above I will not respond in kind.

Previous callsigns are as follows. Novice in 1989 KC4ONQ, Technician & General in 1990 N4YPV, Advanced in 1990 KN4LF, Advanced in 1993 KN6YO, Advanced in 1994 KG0NY, Advanced in 1998 KU4QV, Advanced in 1999 KN4LF vanity, Extra in 2008 KN4LF vanity, Extra in 2009 NZ4O vanity.  

Only recently have I become interested in chasing paper awards. 

As of 11/01/2009-

Through eQSL I have 106 confirmed for mixed DXCC #107205 and 50 confirmed for mixed WAS #107694.

Via direct QSL cards, eQSL and LOTW all together my mixed DXCC entity worked total is 196 and 141 confirmed. WAS is 50 confirmed.

Through ARRL's LOTW I have 130 confirmed for mixed DXCC #42,580 and I have 50 confirmed via RTTY for WAS #759. Via LOTW I also have 50 confirmed for Basic WAS.

Via direct QSL cards, eQSL and LOTW all together my all band RTTY DXCC entity worked total is 146 and 108 confirmed.

Through ARRL's LOTW I have 108 confirmed for RTTY DXCC #xxx. I have applied for the endorsement but have not received it yet.

Via direct QSL cards, eQSL and LOTW all together my all band BPSK31 DXCC entity worked total is 110 and 75 confirmed. WAS is 48 confirmed. Via LOTW I have 50 confirmed for Digital WAS.

I'm medically retired military (2004), the U.S. Coast Guard. I actually served 12 years between 1976 and 1988. In the military I worked in radio communications, as well as troposphere level aviation and marine weather forecasting/pilot briefings and physical oceanographic research.

I also worked in space and troposphere level weather forecasting for some private weather forecasting companies, other federal government entities and in my consulting business. I have a total of 31 years experience in weather forecasting.

I also have some education and experience in law enforcement, jail/prison corrections, private investigations, loss prevention and the national security arena. I retired from law enforcement in 1999.

While in the military and as a civilian GS'er for Uncle Sam I had the good fortune of travel overseas quite regularly. I set foot on every continent including Antarctica and it was quite an experience that I will always cherish. Unfortunately though I was not able to get on the air as a ham but one day I will operate overseas in a contest or mini DXpedtition. However I did make ham radio contacts as a marine mobile station.