Ok, ok, So it took me a long time to get it going like I promised! It's a work in progress. I'm a Ham radio operator in Orange County, CA. I am the infamous Squishy Rotten Tomatoes! (KB6SRT) and am very involved in my hobby. I started the whole Communications thing as a boy who would run around interviewing the dogs and cats with a spoon as though I were interviewing another person. Then at 9 years of age, Dad introduces me to Citizen Band Radio. Wow! What a concept! I was KAKS 4824 and my Handle was Little Flash.

Then about 13 years later, two buddies of mine Ray Huskey ("The Ravin" who became KB6ETY) and Jay Huskey ("Blue Jay" who became KB6EUF) made a phone call on what I thought was a C.B. radio... Then I began to tear things apart and eventually I would remember enough to put them back together. I quickly became known as The Guy Who Fixed Stuff. So people would give me things because they didn't work and I would fix them and keep them. Through the years I decided to do what some older friends of mine had done and take my General Radiotelephone Operators License (GROL) in Long Beach, CA. I passed it and partied with my friends. Some Ham Friends and some C.B. friends. I then thought if Ray and Jay can do the Ham thing, then I could too. So.... I became a Ham Radio Operator and I partied with my friends all Hams.

I saw C.B. go down the Moral toilet. So I left that behind me. As I was experimenting with Ham Radio I noticed that there was more to do than just talk. I loved (morse) code. Then I had the opportunity to take over this Commodore 64-driven repeater on 220 mHz. Over the years, 6 to be exact, I upgraded it and fine tuned it and finally sold what started out as a Commodore 64 with a Hamtronics R-76 Rx board, a Hamtrronics

I believe that if we don't take the mindset that we need to preserve our time-honored hob