Biography

Hi from Joe / N6MM,


Welcome to my QRZCQ.com web page. This web page is intended to tell you a little bit about me and my Amateur Radio activities here in Newark California.

I am a lifelong California resident, born and raised on the Central Coast and then moved to the San Francisco Bay area in the late 60’s. I am a member of SBARA, The South Bay Amateur Radio Association, The Northern California DX club, and I am also a member of the ARRL. I was first licensed in 2005, then in 2007 I upgraded to General class and obtained the vanity call WB6TFD. In December of 2009 I upgraded to Amateur Extra and also changed my Vanity call to the present 1 by 2, N6MM.

I work as a technical associate in the advanced manufacturing engineering of touch screens here in the Silicon Valley. And have worked for the same company for 44 years. I am very active on 2, 6, 10, 12, 15, 17, 20, 40 and 75 meters. I really enjoy chasing DX and have worked 220 countries and confirmed 216. I also like to just rag chew when time and the bands conditions permit it.

My station consists of 3 Icom's, a 756 Pro, Pro 2, and a IC-7700, all microphones are stock. My backup and QRP rig is a Yasue FT-897D and in my truck I run an Icom IC-706 MK2 G. My amp for home is a 1KW, HL-1.5 K fx from Tokyo Hy-Power and the main antenna is a Mosley Pro 67B, 7 element 6 band trap yagi on a free standing tower at 55 ft. I also have a Hy-Gain DX-77 10-40 meter vertical. For 75 meters I use an Alpha Delta Model DX-OCF-HP off-center-fed 7-band antenna that works vary well on 75 meters. I often can be found on 20 or 40 meters calling CQ/QRP and have worked and confirmed many countries on just 5 watts. All thanks to the Mosley.

I operate an Icom IC-910 on 2-meters and 440 MHz; I enjoy making contacts on 146.520 FM and on 144.230 USB. I use my Icom 756 PRO for DX-ing on 6-meters during the sporadic E season in May, June and July on 50.125 MHz USB. In my spare time I go to work and now look forward to retirement in 2015 or so.

I look forward to working you and exchanging QSL cards.

73 from Joe, N6MM

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