A little about me
Hello! Thanks for visiting and/or making contact, here's a few things about me:
Background
- Got my ticket for Tech 10/2018 and General 12/2018
- Influenced at an early age by my uncles who were into electronics and radios
- Know some electronics from a couple of semesters of Electronic Technician classes in college
- Fun loving husband and father to my one and only son Micah
- Trained and became part of the local C.E.R.T. in February 2020
- Career in graphic design and also posses skills in motorcyling, MTB, snowboarding, camping, off-roading, and wilderness first aid, etc...
So far
- Created a few worldwide multimode digital networks (C4FM, DMR, D*Star, etc…)
- Operate several backyard repeaters
- Build digital hotspots and design Nextion screens
- Monitor, talk, and check into NETS on 2M and 70CM repeaters
- Contacts through FT8 and SSB on 20M, 40M and 30M
- Building wire antennas (EFHW, random length wire antenna, etc...)
Gear (Shack)
- Yaesu FTM-400XDR
- Yaesu FTM-100DR & HRI-200 Wires-X Node
- Yaesu DR-1XFR Repeater
- Icom ID-5100a
- Icom IC-7300
- LDG IT-100 Autotuner
- Alinco DM-330MV 30W Power Supply (3)
- Comet GP-6 (10' dual-band 2M/70CM vertical)
- Diamon X300A (10' dual-band 2M/70CM vertical)
- Zerofive 27' 10-40M vertical antenna
- EFHW (49:1) 10-40 wire antenna
- Random length (9:1) 6-40 wire antenna
Gear (Mobile/Portable)
- Yaesu FTM-400XDR
- Yaesu FT-891
- Yaesu FT-857D
- Xiegu 5105
- Elecraft KX2
- Motorola XPR4550
- FT-2DR
- FT-70D
- TYT MD-UV390
- TYT MD-380
- Icom ID-51a plus2
- Baofeng BF-F8HP HT
- Wolf River Coil SB1000 & Mini TIA
- Buddipole Dipole Deluxe
Gear (stowed)
- Icom IC-2730
- Kenwood TM-V71a
- Alpha Antenna Promaster (18' HF vertical)
- Alpha Antenna 10-40 Magnetic Loop