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Hello Mike!
My name is Dave, and I live near Youngsville, NC... Just east of the
capital city of NC which is Raleigh. My family and I have lived here
for all our lives in these beautiful rural settings.
I'm 46 years old, and I've been a ham for 32 years since age 14. Sorta
young "old timer", hi! Anyway, my interests in Amateur Radio are varied
with activity from 160 meters through 900 mhz and a little experimentation
on 10 Ghz wide band FM. I maintain several ham repeaters in the area from
10 meters through 440mhz, and enjoy building and experimenting. I work mostly
CW on 160, 80, and 40 meters, phone and RTTY on 20 and 15 meters, FM voice
on the local 2m repeater, SSB and Fm on 6 and 2 meters, FM on 220 and 440
mhz, a litte ATV on 440 mhz, and packet radio BBSing/DX Cluster/APRS on 2
and 6 meters/1200 baud and 220 mhz/9600 baud. I also enjoy collecting /
operating vintage amateur radio gear.
Packet radio a favorite facet of the hobby for me, having been active
for around a 11 years now. Lot's of fun, too! My current packet station
uses a modified IBM ps/2 Model 80 (ex-386) with a Cyrix 486 upgrade,
CD Rom, external 5 1/4" drive/internal 3 1/2" drive, 1.2 gigs of HD,
and 16 megs of ram. The radio/equipment combinations are:
* Full-time APRS (Automatic Position Reporting System) station = KANTRONICS
KPC-3+ TNC, a homebrew voice/data switch, a Yaesu Memorizer into
a Radio Shack 2 meter 35 watt amplifier on 144.39. The antenna is a 15
element 215WB yagi at about 120 feet. Software is WB4APR's DOS APRS
version 8.10 (great software!) talking on com 1.
* Full-time DX Cluster connection = AEA PK-80 TNC, Radio Shack HTX-202
running 5 watts into a 35 watt Radio Shack amplifier, and on into an
Anli dual band vertical at about 130 feet up. The frequency is 145.67 mhz.
The DX node I connect to is DXClay, and that connects to the DX Cluster
(W4MR) managed by K4HA in Raleigh, NC. My DX and logging software is
Hyperlog, talking to com 2 on the computer.
* Full-time packet BBS connection = Kantronics KPC-9612+ dual port
(1200/9600 baud) TNC, a Kenwood TM-331A 220 rig on 223.70 mhz at 9600 baud
into the local PBBS (W4RAL) managed by WA4MJF. On the 1200 baud port
of the 9612 I run a HTX-202 on 145.73 (2 meters) to connect to
a node some 100+ miles away (single hop!), to pass traffic. I also use an old
converted Johnson commercial radio on 145.03 on a 1200 baud Kantronics
TNC to connect to a group of mailboxes about 35+ miles away in Wilson NC.
Antennas are a homebrew long boom 8 element yagi on 220 which is dedicated
to the W4RAL BBS, and a 12 element vhf yagi on the 145.03 radio pointed
towards Wilson NC, and a Cushcraft 5 el yagi on 51.160. Software is MSYS,
a simple but very flexible terminal program that allows for selection of
any com port and IRQ configuration. I'm running MSYS on com 3 and com 4
very sucessfully, to control these 3 packet radio ports.
All of my packet applications run on the same computer, at the same time,
as dos applications under Windows 3.1. I'm very impressed with 9600 baud
packet, and having lots of fun. I'd certainly recommend it to anyone who
lives near a bbs that has a high speed user port.
Some of my other interests are Family, R/C Aircraft, and motorcycles.
I'm also very active on the internet, and have several homepages I
maintain. My internet address is wb4iuy@amsat.org .
If you're on the internet, check out the following:
http://www.2vulcans.net/ (personal website)
http://www.teara.org/ (ham radio club)
http://www.rd-rc.org/ (local RC club)
http://www.ScootWorks.com (my company)
Also, if you care to QSL, I love to swap cards and QSL 100% via buro
or direct.
My gear here on HF is:
* Icom IC-756 HF transceiver
* Yaesu FT-901DE and SP-901
* Heathkit SB-301/SB-401 combo
* Gonset GSB-201 amplifier with 4- 572-b tubes (undergoing repairs!)
* Ameritron AL-82 amplifier with 2ea. 3-500 tubes
Antennas:
* Rohn tower with A3S at about 32 meters (105')
* 3 element parasitic array for 40 meters at about 29 meters (97')
that is electronically switched by a remote control unit built by
Antenna Mart
* Inverted V for 160 and 80 meters at about 27 meters (90')
* Cushcraft 5 element yagi on 50 mhz at 33 meters (110')
* A pair of Cushcraft 215WB's on 144 mhz ssb and FM at about 35
meters (115')
* 10 meter vertical at about 37 meters (120')
* Other assorted antennas along the length of the tower for other
modes and bands
On 2 meters SSB I use a Heathkit SB-500 transverter with an HF rig.
It runs about 80 watts output.
On 2 meters and 440mhz FM I use an Alinco DR-592 50 watt dual-band
transceiver. I also have a converted UHF Motorola Micor that is dedicated
to the UHF port on the local 10 meter FM repeater.
On 220 mhz FM I use a Kenwood TM-331a 25 watt mobile radio. It does
pretty good, and when not on packet it is on a simple 1/4 wavelength
groundplane. I also have a Kenwood TM-621 2m and 220 dual-band rig
that I use to operate from my van.
On 6 meters FM I use an Azden PCS-7500 at about 50 watts into a Cushcraft
Ringo vertical up about 80 feet.
For RTTY and Amtor, I use a Hal Telereader CWR-6850 and the matching
Hal Amtor converter 10-A.
I use a JPS NIR-10 DSP unit and JPS ANC-4 active noice canceller for
interference control and audio processing.
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