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amateur radio
For those curious about what amateur radio is,
the American Radio Relay League (ARRL)
has a fairly good explanation of the hobby.
I'm a former member of the Georgia
Tech Amateur Radio Club and a current member of the ARRL. My interests lie primarily in the
spectrum above 50MHz, although with a little arm twisting I'll work a
club contest on HF every once in a while.
history
I received my Technician license in July 1997 as KD5BWT. On
June 19, 1999, I upgraded to Tech Plus and passed the written portion of the
exam for general. On July 17, 1999, I passed the 13wpm code exam, bringing my
license class up to Amateur General. On September 28, 2003, I passed the new
element 4 Extra examination at Georgia Tech and elected to keep my old call,
KD5BWT.
I'm interested scanning and radio stuff in general, so ham radio has been
a natural extension. I have a page about scanning at
GT that might be interesting to those in the area.
The obligatory I'm-a-ham-and-here's-my-equipment list.
Radios:
- Icom 7100 HF/VHF/UHF 100W
- TYT MD-380 handheld DMR (x2)
- Ettus USRP2
- Yaesu FT-7800R 2m/70cm mobile rig
- Uniden Bearcat BC250D TrunkTracker handheld scanner
- Yaesu VX-5R handheld
- Yaesu VX-1R micro-handheld dualband FM transciever
- Yaesu FT-50RD handheld FM transciever
- Tempo S1 1.5w 2m handheld FM Transciever
- Realistic Pro-2044 base station scanner
- Kenwood TM-733A 2m/70cm FM mobile transciever
- Realistic Patrolman SW-60 shortwave/UHF/VHF reciever
- Uniden Bearcat BC235XLT TrunkTracker handheld scanner
- Realistic HTX-100 10m CW/USB mobile transciever
- Realistic DX-440 FM/shortwave reciever
- Realistic PRO-34 (modified for all-800mhz recieve) scanner
- Uniden 40 channel AM CB radio (face it; they can be useful
sometimes. ;) )
- EMTech EM40 QRP 40m CW trasciever
Antennae:
- MFJ-1777 31m (102') long doublet 15.5m (50') off the ground w/ Icom AH-4 tuner
- Diamond NR-770HBNMO and K400C/NMO mount for car
- Cushcraft PC804N yagi for trunked monitoring at home
- Larsen 2m/70cm mobile antenna
- Unknown brand 4 element scanner Yagi on the roof (at home)
- Cushcraft 215WB Boomer antenna (15 element vert. polarized 2m
yagi) (20 feet off the ground, at home, not at school)
- Larsen 10m mobile antenna
- unknown brand magmount scanner antenna
- Radio Shack magmount CB antenna
Misc:
