Me

I began playing with radios when I was little (think single digits), thanks to my uncle's (W7JBT) own facination with radios (he was only 11 years older).
In 2004, I bit the bullet and received my Technician-class amateur radio license. At the time, I was living in the Seattle area and enjoyed the hobby. Due to restrictions at home, I had to stop. After I finally settled in Arizona in 2008, I picked up the hobby again, only to have to put it aside again when I started volunteering all of my free-time to the fire department. I retired in 2023 and picked up the hobby again, along with programming and photography.

I'm still worming my way through the General manual and plotting and planning where I'm going to shoe-horn my antennas (kinda stuck at the front of the house for the time being).

Thanks to the fire department, I was able to keep my EMT certifications current (certified since 1999), as well get my training for Public Education, Safety Officer, Public Information Officer, Wide-Area Search & Rescue, as well as the slew of mandatory FEMA classes (IS-100,200,300,400,700, & 800). I've also completed my Intro to EmComm (EC-001) and I'm working on my PR for Radio Amateurs (PR-001).

Equipment

Radios

DMR	ANALOG
HT BTech DMR-6x2 dual-band HT Ailunce HD1 dual-band HT CS700 70cm HT MOBILE TYT MD-9600 dual-band mobile HOTSPOTS MMDVM 70cm hotspot	ICOM F3S 70cm HT F-5021 2m KENWOOD TK-730 2m TK-830 70cm TK-840 70cm TK-7160H 2m MOTOROLA GM-300 2m MCX 100 2m YAESU FT-2800 2m FT-7800 dual-band FT-60R dual-band HT FT-710 160-50m HF with autotuner

Antennas and Other

ANTENNAS	ANCILLARY
Homemade J-pole (thanks to my uncle) RTE-8010 HF antenna (end-fed Zepp) Diamond dual-bander	Straight key (TNX UT2WQ) Various power supplies TNCs Kantronics KPC-3 MJF 1278B (TNX KL7AA) ENCODERS Zetron DAPT 1000B two-tone paging encoder Zetron Model 15B two-tone paging encoder VOIP Polycom VVX-411

Towers and Things-to-Do

TOWERS	PENDING
16-foot wooden mast (currently home to my J-Pole) 10-foot Rohn tower 20-foot "engineered" tower (compliments of the department changing repeater sites and towers)	More J-poles QSL cards Guying equipment Upgrade to General (still going through the manual) Cleaning the office so I can see my desk and set up the radios Rack + shelving for radios, power supplies and computers