Member Bio

I’m an Electrical Engineer and have been an electronics enthusiast for over 60 years.

I became interested in Ham radio in 1965 but the code requirement got in the way.

I built a 6L6 CW transmitter in the mid-sixties.  A Ham friend used it to contact Altoona PA from Wayne, NJ.

Finally put in the effort and got my General ticket in May 2023.  Now working on the Extra… I want more bandwidth !!

Picture of the Ham Closet… nothing fancy… just the basics…  iCom IC-746PRO with an end-fed long wire.

My jury rigged “Boom Mic”:     BlueTooth transmitter for wireless reception of my favorite Ham Nets:

My homemade dummy Load (using a CPU Heatsink)… and an experimental NTP synchronized UTC clock

. 

A few trip pictures…