Biography

Residence:

I live in Dothan, Alabama in Houston County. I have been licensed since April, 1966 and have lived in 15 cities in 6 states, and two cities in Costa Rica.

Employment:

I worked in the insurance claims adjusting / Management field and after my first retirement in 1996, I became bored and went to work for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. I retired, again, in December, 2012. Then, again, got bored and went to work, part time for the Wiregrass Humane Society and still goin' at it!

Other Hobbies:

I love computers and have had home computers since the early 1970's. I currently operate 7 computers and 3 tablets. Our main computer in the home is running Linux Mint Rosa, (primarily my wife's computer), My laptop OS is Mint 19.1 Tessa. My print server is operating with Linux Ubuntu/Samba 12.04 and my main radio shack computer is running Linux Minte 19.1 Tessa. The computer working with my radio and pan-adapter equipment is running a Windows 7 operating system. I also have two netbooks running Mint 19.1 Tessa.

I run uTox on all of the machines and EchoLink on both the Windows and Linux machines in the radio shack.

Family:

My wife and I, together, have 13 children. 8 of them are all hers and 5 are mine!! We have 8 hams in the family. My wife holds the general class license, and I have two sons, a daughter-in-law, two grand daughters and a son-in-law who are licensed representing all 3 classes.....Extra, General and Technician.

Equipment

My station setup is:

Ten-Tec Eagle 599
Icom IC-706MKIIG backup rig.
Ameritron ALS-500M amp.
Studio One Boom Mic
Blue Yeti Mic used when running digital communications and for multi channel vocal and music recordingsl uTox and EchoLink.
LDG 600 Pro antenna tuner
Ubiquiti Pico Station M2 set up as a bridge linking both shack computers to the main router in the house.
40 meter Double Bazooka at 60 feet
G5RV and 90 feet