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12/30/07My Bio Page
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Welcome to KQ6K.NET
Welcome to my Website. My name is Eddie
Pierce, and I live in Moorpark, California. Moorpark is a small
bedroom community located in the eastern part of Ventura County in Grid
Square DM04NG. I've been a ham for 32 years and have participated in many
aspects of our great hobby. As of last year (2006) I've discovered the Six
Meter Band. Wow, what a blast. As I've mentioned above, I've been licensed
for quite some time and am now just getting into Six Meters. My portable station is one I enjoy to operate when out doing Field Day, a visit to the park, or especially the weekend campout to our favorite place, either in Ventura County or Santa Barbara County. My station consists of a Yaesu FT-897D/AT-897 Tuner, Westmountain Radio PNP Interface (for the various digital modes), a 43 watt solar panel and deep cycle battery. Oh, don't let me forget one of two antennas that I prefer to use. The tape dipole by Hygain or the Ventenna Company Dipole. I've had great fun and this is an easy station to setup. During field day 2004 I used the tape dipole extended for 20 meters and was able to use it on 40 meters also with the help of the AT-897 tuner attached to the FT-897D. TOO MUCH FUN
- Well after 32 plus years
of being licensed, I've discovered the Magic Band (Six Meters that is) What
a blast I am having chasing grid squares. I discovered the band quite by
accident. I was testing out, my small HF Hybrid quad on some of the local
six meter repeaters and bumped the home button and it put me on 52.525, and
I heard a couple of my friends in the next town over shooting the breeze and
I joined in. Well, about a half hour into the qso, a guy breaks in from
Colorado and said that he had been listening to us chatting about cameras
and just had to say "Hello". Well, I had to pick myself up off of the floor.
What a surprise. Needless to say, I am hooked. Now I spend a lot of time
listening on 50.125. One last comment about working six meters, is that I am
finding out that many ops on that band don't like to QSL and I am not sure
why? My feeling is that if you call or answer a cq and you receive a card
why not send a card back? That is just my feeling about QSLing for that
band. On the low bands, everyone does a great job of QSLing when the time
arises. LATEST UPDATE - I would like everyone to know that I am now using LoTW (Logbook of The World) I hope a lot of you have decided to give LoTW a go. It can be linked to your DXCC information. It is good way to get confirmations to your QSO's without having to chase the paper cards and going through the many no replies. So if you have not tried LoTW give it a go. There are many US and DX stations using the DATABASE. I now have DXCC serial No. 40382. I want to thank all of you that I worked and to say thanks for replying to my cards. I hope to work you many times in the future.
One last thing, if any of you have any questions about my exploits or either of my stations, feel free to drop me a note here by sending it to kq6k at hotmail.com. When you send me an e-mail drop the "at" and replace it with the @ sign. Hope to hear from you. Tnx es 73 -- Eddie |
This site was last updated 12/30/07