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QSL INFO
USA QSL direct with SASE only please!! DX via buro OK or direct with IRC or
dollar.
Main interests 160 meters, although I work other bands. I also fooled around
with old muscle cars for a while, but have sold all of them to buy my old
cow-farm in rural Georgia. My proudest "car moment" was setting the
national AHRA record in D/S class in 1972 with a 69 S/C Hurst Rambler that was
in the American Motors factory race program. I rebuilt all my own engines and
driveline systems.
I was first licensed in 1962, after messing with old shortwave radios for a few
years. I've always loved 160 meters, and have been active on 160 since 1963.
Transmitting antennas
Currently have four-square for 160 using 120/240 degree phase shift (more gain,
better pattern)with four 1/4 wl vertical elements. I also have a 220 foot
insulated tower, a 318 foot insulated tower that supports various wire
antennas, a 300 foot Rohn 65G, a rotating 200 foot tower with monoband yagis
for 40 through two meters.
Receiving antennas
My receiving arrays are mostly located about 1000-2500 feet from the
transmitting arrays, although a few are closer. I currently have about 35
Beverages that include arrays of Beverages, 12 phased 20 foot tall verticals
(in two arrays, one steerable with eight elements in a 330 foot circle and a
four element array- 330 ft by 70 foot- fixed on Europe or switchable to South
Pacific).
Equipment Drake C Line receivers modified to track from one master receiver,
allowing full diversity or stereo receiving on multiple antennas. Any of four
receivers can be put on any antenna, and some antennas can select more than one
direction at once on multiple receivers.
Other equipment includes Elecraft K3, FT-1000D and FT1000MP MK V's.
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