Biography

70 Year Old Retired Mechanical Design Engineer with expertise in CAD/CAM System Operations and training, Structural Steel Grating Designer, Manufacturing Machine Tools for Metal Stamping Industry, Wire Product Process's, Automatic Feeding and Assembly Machines, Core Rod Straightening Process for Foundry Industry, Tool and Die Design for Packaging Industry, Aircraft Mechanisim Designer, Military Helicopter Development/Test Engineer.

Equipment

Yaesu FT-1000MP MKV, Ameritron AL-80B, MFJ VERSA Tuners III and V.
Yaesu FT-847, Heath HL-2200 HF AMP, Mirage 2 meter and 70 CM Amps,Ameritron ATR-15 Tuner.
Kenwood TS-140, MFJ Versa Tuner II.
ICOM 7000 with High Sierra Screwdriver antenna for mobile operation.
P.C. Electronics TC-70-1 and TC-70-10 ATV Transceivers with numerous Mirage Amps.
Rig Blaster, MFJ Sound Card Interfaces, Kantronics KAM XL and KAM Plus Packet Controlers.
Yaesu G-400 RC, G-800SDX, G-1000SDX, G-5400B Rotators.
Hygain Explorer 14 with 40 meters, Cushcraft A-3s Antennas plus a complete range of Antennas for doing all VHF-UHF Modes for FM, SSB, ATV, Satellite Operations. 4BTV and 5BTV Verticals plus home brew 40 meter Ground plane. 160M Full Size Horiz Loop, Extended Double Off Center Fed Zepp for 10-80 Meters, Several Inverted L's, 160 M Dipole, and more total in excess of 30 different antennas at this QTH.
5 Desktop Computers all networked for Rig and Logging and All Digital Modes.
Various Kenwood Multi-Band VHF-UHF Transceivers and Amps up to 160 Watts.