Biography

I have now returned to the Continental USA from Central Luzon since August of 2016. Mostly, I have been busy trying to not hemorrhage funds from my ever dwindling IRA account... But still finding the time to much enjoy tuning in Int'l Morse Code plus a bit of the old Shortwave stuff. Perhaps I could better manage money if I'd not bought the following equipment:

Equipment

HF stuff:
Icom IC-7300
Vibroplex Bug (still practicing into dummy load)
Antenna is homebrew .. 427 feet of speaker hook-up wire wound as verticle oval loop, 10 meters circumference, fastened to 2x4 support spars in the attic; with approx. 15 meters of zip cord strung into an adjoining room as a ground radial...
feeding a 4:1 balun coming out of
Ant Tuner: LDG IT-100

VHF stuff:
Yaesu FT-8900R
antenna is commercially-bought Ladder-Line J-Pole

Receivers only:
CommRadio CR-1 (i can't believe Batteries and Bulbs in Winchester VA had a drop-in replacement Li-ion battery!)
SDRplay RSP1A ... (still working on bringing that online w/ Ubuntu 4.x on an Acer laptop)

other:
Super Antenna hand-tunable HF w/ 80 meter add-on coil
Chameleon CHA F-Loop w/ add-on RG-6 for 80 meters