K4ZRA
DAN F. ONLEY
1032 Wexford Way
Port Orange, Florida 32129-4108
Grid Square: EL98
Email: [email protected] (Click on callsign above)
UPDATED: January 12, 2003
NOTE: K4ZRA was mostly silent from mid-2001 until recent days.
If I owe you a letter or email or QSL card, please let me know!
73,
Dan
K4ZRA FAST FACTS:
Licensed as KN4ZRA in 1958; Extra Class since 1963. Briefly held K7KX (1976-80) while living in AZ.
Hometown: Owensboro, Kentucky
Favorite Hams: son Ray (N8JWX, Silent Key, 1999) plus ex-K4TZP, Fr. Charlie Dittmeier, my all-time best buddy from seminary high school!
Occupation: Publisher, author
Favorite Ham Activity Today: Winter 160M CW contests!
Current equipment: misc. TEN-TEC
First equipment: WRL Globe Chief, 3 crystals then Heathkit VF-1, converted BC453, replaced by military Hallicrafters RX, and finally HRO50
Greatest Youthful Triumph: 4th Place, 1962 July ARRL CD Party
Biggest Bummer: All QSL cards from 1958-1964 ham-intense years lost in 1980 move from AZ! Over 100 DX countries worked with above gear!
Biggest-ever homebrew project: 304TL KW GG linear built while I was 17-19 (It DID put out about 150W!) (Maybe!)
Best Elmers: My Dad (SK, never licensed), K4UCS (SK, died of brain tumor at 30-something when I was 18), Al Haase, W4PFQ, George Wilson III, W4OYI
Favorite on-air contest contacts today: John, K4BAI, and Dave, K1ZZ, who still remember my name from the 1960's!
Greatest Embarrassment: QST ads by Gotham Antennas in early 1960's asking "Is K4ZRA the World's Champion DX Operator?" based on 40-50 contacts one summer using their cheapest vertical!
Next Greatest Embarrassment: I own a publishing company with offset printing shop, plus laser printers, and I haven't had my own QSL cards for several years!
Favorite Antenna Designs: simple verticals or groundplanes with earth ground and NO buried radials
Past aviation experience: private pilot, instrument rated, multi-engine land. Owned C172's, Mooney Ranger, Piper 6-300, Seneca II
My for-profit ham-related work: Writing and designing kit instruction manuals (since 1989), currently for TEN-TEC.
The $24 T-KIT 1054:
the new "OCEAN HOPPER" for the new millenium?
K4ZRA Kit-Building Story: Knight/Allied "Ocean Hopper," WRL Globe Chief, WRL Screen Modulator, Heathkit VF-1, Heathkit phone patch, Western Radio 1-tube QRP rig, Lafayette FS meter, Knight Grid-dip meter, Heathkit SB220 and Active Antenna, Hamtronics 6M receive converter, lots of Ramsey Electronics stuff, MFJ kit prototypes, and more, including ALL T-KIT models to date!
QRP: It was great fun from our condo with a Heath HW9, but I like the TEN-TEC Centaur amp better!
CW: Ranks with fishing as pure relaxation!
Packet: The Internet is easier and more interesting
Packet DX spotting: Seems like cheating to me!
SAREX: neat!!!
Future of K4ZRA website: Depends! I run/host about ten others!
Watch for many great freebies coming soon at the T-KIT Resource Site which I've designed for web-surfing beginners, parents, families, Scouts, clubs and Electronics Instructors! Sorry, this exciting new URL is top secret for right now!
Keeping in mind that our QSL.NET is strictly non-commercial, I will not load up this K4ZRA personal site with more info from TEN-TEC or T-KIT!
VISIT TEN-TEC HOME PAGE
Listening in on . . . the Sounds of ENERGY!
Click here for FREE Project Booklet!
Pure fun for young and old alike: many fascinating experiments which you can do using virtually any audio amplifier. Great for science classes, Scouts, clubs!
A guide to hobby experiments
with the sounds of
computers,
light,
space,
weather,
radio,
television,
shortwave,
radar,
engines . . .
and even the sounds of bending paper clips,
TV-VCR remotes and underground pipes!
Click here for FREE Project Booklet!
Download FREE Code Practice Software!
This is the classic AC3L DOS freeware. The new Win95 version is also free and "nice" and also available from the same site, but I really urge you to enjoy the ready-to-run 100K DOS version and especially its nifty Receiver Simulation! Next best thing to "doing it" and not offered on the 2MB WinVersion download.
HAM CLIP ART BY KGØZZ. You can get some too!
Click on the Icon for the "Howto" Page
Thanks for being visitor number
since 06/20/98