Biography

First licensed 1959 KN8QLK (Novice)
Upgrade to General 1960 K8QLK
Upgrade to Advanced 1969 K8QLK
Upgrade to Extra 1990 K8QLK
Vanity Call 1996 K8GT

Trustee WY8DX Eighth Sea DX Association

Commercial Radiotelephone Third class 1960
Commercial Radiotelephone Second class 1962
Commercial Radiotelephone First class 1964

Retired October 1, 2012 after 50 years in Radio and TV Broadcasting
Worked at a total of 4 Radio stations and 3 Television stations, 45 years at WKBD-TV Detroit. That was lots of fun, especially playing with a 120KW transmitter. When WKBD-TV afilliated with the CW network, I liked to say that I worked at a TV station that ran CW. Can you imagine running CW with a 120KW rig?

DXCC Mixed, Phone, CW, 40M and 10M. Have 80M, 20M, 15M and Digital on LOTW, just haven't applied for them yet. 8 countries confirmed on 6M, but many more not QSLd yet. Still working on 160M confirmations.

VUCC on 6M. Starting to work on FFM on 6M.

WAS Mixed, Phone and CW

QSL manager for a friend, Don, HS0ZBG (AB8RH) missionary in Thailand, but not very active th last few years, too busy.

Always been a DXer, and now a contester for the last 24 years. Have operated many contests at the K8CC superstation, and opeated in the CQWW CW contests in 2001 and 2002 in a multi-op at the PJ2T superstation at Signal Point, on Curacao.

Member Oakland County ARPSC and ARES, including Skywarn.

Life Member ARRL, member NCDXF, Hazel Park ARC, Mad River Radio Club (MRRC), South East Michigan DX Association(SEMDXA), SOC(Second Class Operators Club)

Equipment

TS-590s, TS-850s, IC-735, FT-857D.
Dentron Clipperton L Amp (needs work - never used by me)
Dentron MT3000A Tuner
Old Hammarlund HQ100A and S-38C receivers.
1925 McMillan Five radio to be cleaned and refurbished.
Bunch of kits on shelf to be built yet. Now I have time.

Wire antennas, Dipoles, Inv V, Inv L, Loops and 2 el Moxon for 6M at 20 ft.
Mosley TA-36, TA-33jr, CC X-7, tri-banders waiting for a tower, plus Butternut HF9VX+160, R5 and CC AV-3 verticals all in shed.

N1MM contest logger and Logger 32 general purpose logger.
Beyerdynamic D-108 full muff headset with broadcast quality dynamic microphone. Heavy, but a very good, rugged headset.
Super CMOS-III keyer with Bencher BY-1 and Nye paddles.