Licensed as a result of seeing how much fun my Dad (K6QJP - SK), and my brother (KM6EK) had w/ radio on a family vacation. Unfortunately, it was shortly after I purchased a condominium (gotta love those CC&R's). Worked 164 countries on 10m w/ a stealth long wire into a pine tree from there.not bad (for a girl!). Got into doing communications at off-road races down in Mexico - combining my love of the outdoors w/ camping & radio! Met the man of my dreams through the off-road races & the rest is history. You gotta know he's Mr Right - he bought me an Icom 706 MkII-G for our first Christmas! Now he's licensed (WB6BFG), the 706 is in the upside down hay rake WB drives and we have a REAL station: Yeasu FT-1000MP MarkV-Field w/ an Ameritron AL-811 (for those cold nights when we need a little heat). Our place looks like a real antenna farm (dipole for 40/80, HyGain TH7DX for 10/15/20, 22el 2m beam, various verticals, etc) and together we have more fun than should be legal doing public service comms - Rose Parade, Skywarn, Equestrian & Ultra-Marathon Endurance events - in addition to our work at the off-road races. We both enjoy contesting, traveling the world & making new friends wherever we go.

Had a fabulous adventure on a YL DXpedition this Spring to PJ2-land. Go to www.yldxpeditions.com to see what that was all about.

Just back from Rarotonga where Wild Bill & I were on the E51Z CQ WW SSB team. Have yet to review the 1000+ photos to see just how much fun that was!