As a 12 year old, I was visiting Lloyd Sherman W3CDY (sk). I was interested in his radio and Lloyd explained how I could become a ham. With Lloyd being my Elmer, and the ARRL study guides, in1973 I became WN3UUM.

My home QTH at that time was near Berlin, MD. My early interests were handling traffic, and working DX. A Heathkit DX60B and HR10B was my first setup.

Since 1982, I have been living in the Houston, Texas area.

Recently my radio interests have been in operating mostly on VHF/UHF. Presently I am QRV on HF, 50,144, 222, 432, and 1296. The picture has not been updated to show it, but the smallest tower now holds 4 10 element K5GW yagis for 2 meter eme.

I enjoy working meteor scatter on 50,144,or 222 MHz. If you are within 1300 miles of EL29pw, and wish a meteor QSO on any of those bands, please contact me.

Updated (12/10)

73 Best DX,

Matt W3UUM

Station Setup:

HF: Icom 756 Pro II / Alpha 76A

Antennas: 80 & 40 meters - Inverted Vees

20/15/10 meters - 5 ele yagis on a 60' tower

17 meters - 4 ele yagi at 70'

6 meter station - Icom 756 Pro II / Commander 2000(1.5kw)

- M2 9 ele yagi at 80'

- Homebrew 6 ele yagi at 30'

144/432 MHz station - Icom IC-910 / Henry 3002(1.5kw) / TE 4452G (180w)

- 144 MHz : M2 2M8WL at 120'

- 4 / 10 ele K5GW (eme)(still working on the system . rx poor)

- 432 MHz : M2 432-13WLA

222 MHz station - Yaesu FT-736R / Mirage C2512G(120w)

-222 MHz - M2 222-7WL at 115'

1296 MHz - 144 MHz IF: Yaesu FT-736R - DEMI 25 watt Xvter

-1296 MHz - 4 Directive Systems 55 ele Loop Yagis at 113'