www.n9ivq.com - Valparaiso, IN - USA

EN61LL: N41 28 23, W87 02 54 (Please do not use these coordinates for targeting information, they belong to my neighbor's house).

QSL via eQSL.cc or Direct. I will respond to received cards (all though I am sometimes slower then a 7-year itch)!

I work mostly BPSK on the HF bands but do enjoy an SSB chat now and again. You can usually find me on the green on 20m in the early mornings and late evenings; as the bands change I sometimes shift down to 40m & 80m. I also try to work VHF PSK around 02:00z each day if you're around give me a call on 145.150 MHz USB. I am also interested in EME and Satellite work. Right now I am working on a laser scatter transceiver that will bounce light off of high-altitude clouds and water droplets in the upper atmosphere. We’ll see how well that works.

Station: Yaesu FT-897D (Fixed) & FT-857D (Mobile), Azden PCS-6000, Azden PCS-4000, Yaesu VX-7RB & FT-470 HT radios.

Station powered by The SUN: 160 Watt solar chargers, multiple large gel-cells. About 170 hours (7 Days) run time for the ham gear, less if I run the computers, lights, or TX a lot, etc. I do use commercial power for backup. HiHi... I keep having to add batteries as I am generating more power then I am using. :-) Soon I hope to be adding a small wind generator and more solar cells. I plan to shift my whole house over to alternate power. I have managed to reduce my power consumption to less the 560 Watt/Hours. If I can get the dogs to remember to turn off those LED lights I should be able to get it down further. I am also training the dogs to run on a power generating tread mill. Not sure how many watts the Chi-wa-wa will be worth though!

Are you still considered green if you waste solar power?

80/40/20/10/6M Dipoles, 240' Long Wire, 10M 1/4 ground plane, Dual Homebrew-J-pole 2M/70cm, 11-Element 2M/70cm Yagi, MFJ-969, MFJ-945, LDG AT-897, AT-200Pro Tuners, Kantronics KAM, HRD - Deluxe (Cool Software), Tiger SignalLink USB.

RM Series Hustler Mobile HF Antenna (6/10/20/40/75m) in addition to VHF/UHF antennas.

Dell D800 & GX280 computers doing different things. The D800 is far more power effcicent.

2 daughters, 1 grand child, 3 dogs, and loosing hair fast! Duh, 2 daughters, 1 grand child, 3 dogs! Any More Questions? :-)

Communications & Security Services Network Administrator for a school coproration in northern Indiana. I was out of ham radio for several years. Had everything in storage, can you belive that. A couple of years ago I saw an ad for the Ft. Wayne ham fest. Got the bug again... :-) Recently upgraded from Tech+ to General.

Before you go, chew on this "food-for-thought". With a ham radio you can talk around the world with less power then a 100 watt light bulb. Try holding your 100 watt shop light 35 feet off the ground and see how far away people can see it! Talk about efficient. I wonder how much power the Internet uses to move a single packet of data the same distance? :-)

Buy the way, if you know anyone who has a working matched pair of Isotropic mobile antenna with matching co-phasing harness for sale let me know! I am interested. :-)

If you talk to your self, should you QSL?

De N9IVQ