Biography

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I have been fascinated with radio since I was a youngster. I still remember getting my first set of walkie-talkies at Christmas as a boy. They had one channel - 14. I dropped one and it broke only about an hour after getting them. I think that is why to this day I still talk to my self.

I was a CB operator in the 80's, and ran a Titan 10/11m mobile radio in the car with a 300W amp and 9' whip on the back bumper. I would talk all over Europe on my way to work each morning. Lunch hours were spent in the parking lot working DX!

In July of 1990 I signed up for ham radio courses being put on by the local club. A few weeks later, I took the code and theory test and became VE3TMT. Getting my amateur radio license was a dream come true for me.

The first 15 years of my ham involvement I lived in various apartments, so I was never able to put up a decent antenna. Always had to hide them and they didn't perform very well. In 2005, my wife and I purchased her family home, and I got to work on antennas. I had an R7 vertical up for a few years and it worked very well. I then put up a 32' tower and A3S beam. For the low bands I use an Alpha Delta DX-B sloper.

My main interest now is RTTY, I have worked all 50 states on RTTY and am now trying to do the same thing on all 5 main bands. My DXCC total is 227 with only casual operating. You will usually here me in some of the major RTTY contests trying to improve the WAS total.

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Yaesu FT-1000 Mark V Field
Yaesu SP-2000 speaker
Yaesu FL2100-B amplifier
Yaesu G-450XL rotor
Cushcraft A3S (20/15/10)
Alpha Delta DX-B sloper (160/80/40/30)