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One of my past times when not working, is firing up the Ham radio and talking to various people who care to listen. I don't do much if any chasing DX stations on HF but I do when VHF/UHF is dead. I'd rather sit and talk then have a 2 minute conversation. I spend most of my time VHF/UHF working week signal contacts. If I'm not there you can find me on 75 meters at 3.922 mhz and occasionally on 40 meters. I started into Ham radio back 1978 and obtained the call KA9JLU. I had various rigs back then. I was really interested in the old tube radios. Over time I have had in my possession several Johnson transmitters such as the Ranger, Valiant, Ranger II, A Knight T-150, Several Hallicrafter rigs including an HT-32B with matching SX-101A. And the list goes on. To many to remember. The one radio I did own and worked the most was a Yaesu FT-101EX. Out of all the radio's this one rig stayed with me the longest and was used the most. By today's standards it wasn't anything great. But in it's time is was one of the most stable and respected radios. Having solid state receive and tube finals gave the radio lots of nice options and was able to work just about anywhere you wanted. It was a solid piece of equipment. Even today the FT-101 series radio is being used by thousands of hams on the air now. It had one of the best AM signals there was. In 1985 I moved from Wisconsin and back to Dallas Texas. While here I upgraded to General and changed my call to a 5 area call I have now, N5ITO, and is the current call I operate under now. Several years after moving back to Dallas I was married and moved into an apartment. So much for Ham radio. All radio equipment was sold and Ham radio was out of my life for a while. Through the years I picked up several 2 meter FM rigs and stayed active that way. But never had the space of radio for HF. This has all changed. Check out my current and past stations on the site. Drop me a line or look for me on VHF/UHF. Love to have a schedule if you have time. In March of 2005, I moved to Mount
Vernon, Texas to work more with my business. So as now I'm in the country on 5
acres with finally enough room to play with towers and antennas. The
website has current information of my station and what is happening. The old
location webpages are also still on the site for reference if anyone cares. Dave |
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