Biography

Welcome to my QRZCQ page.

I am from the central Oklahoma city of Del City. This is part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. I've been a ham radio operator since April 1983 with my first call sign of KA5QNB. In 1993 when we lived in Phoenix, AZ because I was in the U.S. Air Force stationed at Luke AFB. At that time, I requested a local call sign though I didn't specify a call sign and I was assigned KB7ZCO. I did not like that call because I always had to give it out phonetically. No one seemed to understand me by voice. When I moved back home in 1999, I requested my dad's original call sign of K5GLH and was assigned it in 2001.

I got my first computer in 1983, the same year I got my amateur radio license, so I've always used them together. I've had iLink, Echolink, IRLP, WIRES-X, Allstar nodes over the years. To me computers are every bit as much part of the hobby as the radio itself.

I am sporadically active on the 20 and 40 meter band and can be heard on our local W5DEL repeaters, 146.7 MHz and 443.3 MHz. My wife is also a ham with the call sign of KE5APB. My brother and dad are still licensed as well.

I use a Yaesu FT-710 AESS with an Alpha Delta DX-LB Plus for HF and a Yaesu FTM-400XD for local VHF/UHF communication. I use Yaesu System Fusion on our 443.3 MHz repeater. I also like to listen on shortwave radio with a Tecsun PL-880.
I also have a GMRS license with the call sign WRAP445.

Another hobby of mine is to watch severe storms. Growing up in the tornado capital of the world, Oklahoma City, I've been fascinated with severe weather my whole life.

Equipment

Yaesu FT710 AESS
Xiegu G90
Yaesu FTM-400XD
Alpha Delta DX-LB Plus 40 feet
Cushcraft 215WB 13 element 2 meter yagi 65 feet
Tecsun PL-880
Uniden BCD536HP
Uniden BCD436HP