KH2GM

Note: JT-X Alert shows me as being Guam.  All my documentation has been submitted to show that I have moved from Maryland to Alabama.  I have requested the JT-X Alert database be corrected.  Waiting on that to happen... 73's de Rod,  KH2GM

I was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico in September of 1955 and grew up in the towns of Toa Baja and Dorado. graduating from high school in 1971.  I attended the University of Puerto Rico,  Mayaguez Campus, and the Bayamon Central University from 1971 to 1974, while also working in the Quality Lab of the San Juan Cement manufacturing plant. 

I joined the US Navy in 1975 as an enlisted sailor in the Nuclear Power Program.  After completing basic training, and the two year Nuclear Power training pipeline, I was assigned to the USS George Washington (SSBN 598). On board the George Wasshington I qualified in Submarines.  After the Washington, I served as an Instructor at Nuclear Power Training Unit (NPTU), Ballston Spa, NY,   and from there went to the USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN-709).  I was onboard Rickover when I was commissioned as a Limited Duty Officer (LDO) in  July of 1985. 

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From 1985 on I served in Submarine Squadron's/Group staff's  and as part of Ship Maintenance,  Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facilities in New London, CT;  Kings Bay, GA and;  Apra Harbor,  Guam.  At those facilities I planned and executed repair work on nuclear submarines and non-nuclear surface ships until my retirement in 1999 as a Lieutenant Commander from Submarine Squadron 20 in Kings Bay, GA.

Since my retirement I have worked in the IT field doing implementation of SAP and IFS Software products, first as a consultant,  then as a Project and Program manager, and finally at the Executive level. 

Both my military career and my post retirement have involved a lot of traveling so I have been lucky to have visited most of the United States and quite a few countries around the world.   Definitely not in depth, but enough exposure to get to understand how different things can be in other parts of the world.   

My Station:  TS480HX  feeding a Zero-Five Antenna 20 foot 6-30 meter flagpole antenna with a MFJ-994 BRT tuner.  I am using HRD, WSJT-X and JT-X Alert as the software products.  The audio Interface is a Signalink USB and the computer is an HPEnvy with 8GB RAM and 2.6MHZ clock speed. I spend the majority of my operating time on FT-8 since my hearing loss makes it hard to do SSB. I am able to operate the rig from anywhere by using "GoToMyPC" as my remote link software.

Call progresion: WP4BXP > N1DRS > KH2GM > KC3MEK > KH2GM

I got my first license, as a novice, in 1982 as WP4BXP from my native Puerto Rico,  which I changed to N1DRS when I upgraded to General class status while living in Connecticut from 1983-1988.  I kept the same callsign/license when I moved to the state of Georgia in 1989, where I stayed until 1992.   From Georgia I moved to Guam in 1992 and changed my license to KH2GM.  I did very little operating from Guam due to my work commitments, and ultimately went QRT in 1998. I did renew my license in 2003 but let it expire in 2013.   I got back into the hobby in October of 2018 and had to get a new license, so I got KC3MEK, then found my old call was available as a vanity callsign, so requested it and got it from the FCC in November 3rd of 2018.

I am married with no children living in Athens, AL with my beautiful wife Yoko.

Thanks for visiting and 73's to you and yours!

Rod/KH2GM

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