Biography

Received Novice and General class licence in 1962, upgraded to Extra in 2012
Call letters from 1962-2014 WA2WHV.

First QTH, River Edge, NJ, moved to Norwood, NJ in 1963. Eico 720 + homebrew modulator, SX-110

Built 813 "KW" in 1963 with 811 plate modulator

Setup a rig in my barracks at K.I. Sawyer AFB, MI in 1971, worked all CW Heath DX-40 and HQ 110

I was also a member of AF MARS at K.I. Sawyer and taught a class for people who wanted to get their novice license including code practice.

Setup Ten-Tec Omni-D after moving to Hopatcong, NJ - mounted TA-33 beam on tripod on roof. Still have that transceiver.

Moved to Hamilton Square, NJ and setup rig there. First time got on 2m packet.

Read about SDR and Flex in two issues of Monitoring times and got the Flex-3000 in 2012.

Motivation for Flex was not just that I liked the idea of a DSP, but because I could get the same features in a radio than a much more expensive transceiver.

I was into 160 meter AM with two broadcast transmitters around 2000. They sounded beautiful on the air with the Gates mixer and RE27 microphone. Went through a whole nostalgic stage of boat-anchors. Had two SX-28s, two Valiants and a bunch of other tube stuff.
I passed that stage and decided I wanted to "downsize". I sold almost all the boat anchors at Sussex county hamfest over a period of a few years.

At Middletown, NJ. Rig is Flex-6500, Linear Amp is Elecraft KPA500, use external audio equalizer and processing with Electrovoice RE27 Microphone.

7/7/2014 Applied for new Vanity call K2JHV.
7/25/2014 FCC approved new call.
7/29/2014 Received new license which was also automatic renewal.


Homepage: http://www.j-hawkins.com/radio.html

Ham radio homepage: http://www.qsl.net/wa2whv

Operator: Born in 1946, Ham since 1962

Professional: Computer programmer with EE background for about 30 years until retiring in 2002. Spent most of my career at Bell Laboratories and Later at AT&T after it all split up.

Hobbies: Collect transmitter and unusual vacuum tubes, rocks and minerals, digital photography, 3D modeling, Photoshop, playing piano. I spent years building my Broadcast Technology Website. Part of my interest in ham radio led me to visit lots of mostly AM transmitter sites.

Broadcast station videos at:
http://www.youtube.com/user/powertube5671

Equipment

STATION DATA:

Radio: Flex-6500 - 100W Max run at 50W for PSK31
Amplifier: Elecraft KPA500
Audio Rack: Behringer MIC2200 Mic preamp, Behringer DEQ2496 equilizer
Behringer9024 6 band processor, Altec 1592B Mixer/preamp, Aphex 204 Aural exciter
Microphone: Electrovoice RE27
Antenna: Separate 15, 17, 20, 40 and 80 meter dipoles
Software: DM780 v5.24.0.28 Release + com0com
OS: Vista Ultimate 64B
Computer: Intel Quadcore 64B + 4GB

Also have Drake R-4B, ICOM R7000, Ten-Tec Omni-D and OMNI V,Icom IC-2710H,
Icom IC-746PRO
GE XT-1-A broadcast transmitter with compander and mixer. (for sale)