Repeater information

Biography

Look for me on FT-8 Wspr and other digital modes on all HF bands; or the 444.300 repeater in eastern Iowa PL192.8
I have worked at Rockwell Collins and some small businesses. Reverse engineering to redesign equipment. My studies are engineering and computer science.
I interface the radios with computers and write some software for automation control.
Whatever is popular I will try it.

I've been to:
England Germany Austria Japan China Canada and many states.
IA AL MS LA IL IN OH WV VA NC
FL TX MO MD ND SD NV NM AZ CA
ID MO NE CO UT WY PA DC NC SC
HI KY TN MN MI WI
Flown over but not visited:
OR WA NY NJ MA ME VT CN NH DE AK
My relatives range from Samoa to Texas to Denmark to England.
QTH is EN42

Equipment

VLF: Using a Cushman frequency selective Levelmeter this will tune cw usb lsb from
'dc' about 15khz to 3mhz. I use a shielded loop antenna. It can be locked to a reference
for very low drift.
Stations heard 23khz 25khz 40khz(NL) 60khzWWVL comes in at -80dbm.
40khz seems to be ideal for lightning detection.
137khz: have not detected any signals.

Now the Cushcraft R8 antenna is up at 20 feet and tunes perfectly.
A 11M 5/8 tuned to the low end of 10m is operational.
An Icom 725 is used there to operate FT8 Wspr and occasional voice..
A Yaesu FT990 which has the built in tuner is used on a dipole on 40 20 15 10.
Due to the two radios co-site proximity I don't band hop right now on wspr.
The Icom 706mk2 has computer control. Its good for what ever sound card modem is used.
A 2meter 12db collinear antenna. is up and running but not yet very high in the air.
A UHF 8 bay is used on a 440 repeater.
A Tyt quad bander has FM on 10 6 2 and 70cm.
A rod type discone covers 6M then air band through UHF. These are low gain, but putting a preamp right on them will bring in the signals. It seems a lot of spectrum use has shifted to above 700 mhz so its good there.
More antennas to come!