KF7NN

Licensed 1987 during a testing session with W7YS Bill Schuchman at Northern Arizona University who quickly became my elmer adoptee and long time friend and last one of the PVRC founders.

about 3 years later i got fascinated with electronics and attended DeVry Tech to get my Associates degree where all hell broke loose and i found myself spending money on things like "proto boards"

after college i worked in the semiconductor field for big companies like TI, Intel,TSMC,Phillips national semi etc, now i am working as a Control Equipment Technician at Dupont Richmond, VA.

currently I am using a Kenwood TS-990 and an Alpha 99 with a Mosley Pro 67 C3 up at 100 foot, i use a home brew off center fed dipole for 160,80,. For VHF i am using an M2 12 element on FM and another one on SSB horizontal, the amp is a Beko 2kw.  6 meters there is a M2 6m5 at the 105 foot level.

I love to work CW but not too much rag chewing, i am more a DX-er than anything, i currently have 299 countries on  LOTW and 314 in cards/lotw combined. awards include WAS,8BDXCC,DXCC,5BWAS,triple play and WAC

just finished with 8BDXCC.

I qsl rarely but in large quantities of about 1000 at a time thru globalqsl.com, i have about 17500 qso's in LOTW.

one hobby i have is to repair old radios and KEEP them which is not good for the wallet, at one time i repaired radios for Frank W3LPL's contest station in maryland

and alot of other people in the east coast until my co-owner got sick. lately i been too busy to even fix my stuff i got laying around.

other radios i have include yaesu ft757gx, ft-990, 767gx, kenwood few ts120's 520s's, Icom 7000,706,756p3 and about a hundred vhf/uhf rigs and handy talkies.