Biography

Received my first ticket on April 1, 2010. Prior to that I was a SWL for 50 years. I'm retired following a 35-year career as a electrical engineeer (BS/MS EE - Purdue University) and engineering division manager with the US Navy. My other activities include woodworking, working on computers, watching team sports involving a ball, fishing, and watching four grandsons grow up.

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Shack includes a Yaesu FT-1000MP Mark-V Field, Kenwood TS-590, Kenwood TS-830S, Ameritron AL-811H linear amplifier, Palstar AT1KM tuner, Heil Goldline and Heil HM-10 dual microphones. Antennas are a Mosley TA-33/WARC (tri-band Yagi for 10m, 15m and 20m plus a rotatable dipole element for 12m and 17m) on a Hazer at 42', 40m dipole, 80m OCF dipole (80m, 40m, 20m, 17m, 12m, 10m and 6m) and a 4-band (40m-20m-15m-10m) Hy-Gain ground-mounted vertical with 24 radials. Locally, use an FT-2900 (2m), Yaesu FT-60R and BaoFeng UV-5R HTs (2m-70cm), and a Diamond X300 dual-band vertical antenna. Also have a Japan Radio NRD-525 - an excellent shortwave receiver.