Ham Radio

Ham Radio

I am a ham radio (aka. amateur radio) operator. I have been licensed since 1980, but haven't been active much of that time - although that is changing.

I'm interested in almost every part of amateur radio, but focus on chasing satellites and HF DX. I recently started contesting.

I am an AMSAT area coordinator for NM, and I recently started a term as vice president for the Albuquerque Amateur Radio Club (http://www.abqham.org/).

• Call sign N5FPP
• Coordinates: 35° 9' 53'' N / 106° 18' 25.6'' W (35.16489, -106.307109)
• Grid: DM65ud
• Radios: ICOM IC-756Pro2, Kenwood TS-2000X, Kenwood TS-790A
• Antennas:

• 107ft longwire via SSG SG-237 antenna tuner
• Cushcraft R7 (40-10m vertical)
• Homebrew 2m and 70cm J-Poles
• KLM 435-18C 18 element 70cm cross yagi
• KLM 2M-14C 14 element 2m cross yagi
• 1m BBQ dish with 13cm 5.5 turn helix, Khune 13cm/2m down converter
• Near future (equipment purchased, needs installing):

• 10ft roof tower (at 30ft) for satellite antennas
• 55ft tower for HF antennas
• 40m monobander & 20/17/15/12/10m Yagis
• AlphaSpid rotor
• M2 2MCP22 and 436CP42UG cross yagis
• Yaesu G-5400 AZ/EL rotor
• Directed Systems 55 element 23cm loop yagi (21DB gain!)
• Misc Gear:

• AEA DSP-2232
• TARP DSP56002EVM modem
• EA4TX RCS-SE AZ/EL rotor controller
• RigBlaster Pro
• RigExpert
• 2.4Ghz P4, 1Gb RAM, 160Gb disk, Sound Blaster Audigy LS
• Apple iBook G4 (1.33GHz, 1.25Gb RAM, 60GB harddrive)

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