I have been continuously licensed since 1960. I grew up in Westfield, N.J.and moved to Texas with XYL, Cathy (W5HAM) in 1975. Previous calls include: WV2PBN, WA2PBN, WA3JKF, WB5WJT, and KC5GB.

Caribbean Home: V47JA - Calypso Bay, St. Kitts, W.I. http://www.qrz.com/db/v47ja

Although we were granted "Permanent Resident" status on St Kitts, XYL Cathy, W5HAM (V47HAM) and I split our time between our Hockley, Texas, USA, and Calypso Bay, St. Kitts homes.

The actual temperature in Calypso Bay, St. Kitts

Foreign licenses: J68JA (St.Lucia), V31FB (Belize), P40DX (Aruba), G0AOH (UK).

Always glad to QSL, SASE please.

Retired in 2007 after almost 30 years traveling the world working for Schlumberger, and Omni FC, on hydrocarbon pipeline Flow Computers and Flow Instrumentation.

Also licensed are:

XYL: Cathy W5HAM- V47HAM (St Kitts, W.I.) http://www.qrz.com/db/w5ham

Daughter: Catherine K5ICA (Houston,TX),

Son: Daniel K5DAN (Houston,TX),

Daughter: Carolyn K5CAS and Son-in-law: Matt WA5MCS (Bastrop,TX),

QTH: Hockley, Texas, Grid: EM-20, 40 Miles NW of Houston, TX .

Radios: Yaesu FT-1000MP-MkV, FT-857D, Kenwood TS-590S, Collins KWM-2.

Amps: QRO HF-2500DX, Collins 30L1, Heath SB-200 (6 Meter Mod.).

Beams: 40m: 2EL (CC), 10m-20m: 3EL (SteppIR), 6m: 4EL (SteppIR).

Pictures of the tower and antennas: http://dodropin.org/w5jon.html

Dipoles: 160, 75, and 40 meters.

For station photo, go to: http://www.qrz.com/db/wa2pbn

When in North Harris county give a call on the W5JON/R repeater on 442.95 (PL:123.0).

73,

John Abbruscato  W5JON