Biography

I do not have any QSL cards.

I upload all FT8 QSO's to Club Log, eQSL, and LoTW. I do not mind more contacts on the same band. JTAlert may allow me to not contact you a second time, after 10-28-2021.

I use PA4R's program to send a QSL, after the contact. I don't require any QSL from you. No one gets an email, if they have an invalid e-mail address on QRZ, or their system will not accept an email from W8BBX at yahoo.

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We are located near the Ohio River, close to Parkersburg, in Wood County, WV.

I started as a Novice in 1955 but gave it up for girls, women, a job, house, cars & etc.

I am 80 and now a hobby, amateur radio.
I became a Technician in December 2018 and a General in January of 2019.
I never could touch type or do CW, but I keep working on them. Very slowly.
I am not much of a talker, either.

The house is on a golf course. I don't play golf, but I adore the view.

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

I have a G3TXQ Hexbeam mounted on a 40' mast at the rear of the house. It takes about 5 months after it ordered before you get the antenna.

I have a Hustler 5-BTV vertical antenna. I use it on 80 meters. It is good for 10-80 meters, but does not compete with the hex beam. I can hear about as well on the Hustler as with the hex beam, but transmit is lacking. No guys on it.

The hex beam has a 40 meter kit. The hex beam is 28 feet wide. It has guys at 20', 30', and 40'. I would not go higher using a mast for the support.

The transceiver is an Icom IC-7300. A problem after installing software update 1.4, I needed to go to the new menu 2 and then select the FT8/Other type. 7300 would not transmit to the amplifier above 20 MHz ,until I selected FT8 ???
The amplifier is an Acom 1010, running 500 watts on FT8. I think it will use about 800 watts on SSB.

Might not need an amplifier if I was on a hill, but I am in a valley - flooded in 2015 - 15" in the lower level - that is where have my "shack".

PC is a Dell Precision 3610 with 16GB of memory,
with a 1 TB SSD on a m.2 NVMe drive.

I am using WSJT-X's FT8 on bands from 80m to 10m.
N3FJP's Amateur Contact Log does the updating of eQSL and LoTW, QRZ.
Installed JTAlert (2021-10-26).
A little problem installing because of N3FJP's RIG Control,
for a IC-7300 it only worked on COM-3.
Finally selected NONE for the rig in N3FJP.
It works.

Now I can keep from working stations, that I have worked before, on the same band.