Welcome to a part of the world,
that is KC7GOL. 

3Star-Double Bar-G Ranch

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This is the front of the Ranch.

My station with some of my toys. 

 I have an ICOM-746 with 30L1 AMP and a LDG AT-600 tuner. 

 I also have Kenwood TM-V71 with an Alinco DR-M06

AR-6 Antenna

This is the ditial station that I use for PSK31

This is an 80 Meter Loop antenna I use. 

This is the 80 Meter Loop antenna with snow

JC in his office 3/26/2012

Pikes Peak out my back door 40 some miles away

    To tell you about myself would fill a big book.  I went to college for 11 years.   I will be sixty five soon and I'm a Physicist /Astro-Physicist / Engineer.  I'm now retired from the U. S. Air Force.  I did 30 years and one month with the Air Force. 

     I am sure that your book would be as big as the one I could write about my self.  So,  I will just tell you a little about myself;   just as a HAM Operator.

Why I wanted to become a HAM

    One of the reasons,  I first wanted to become a HAM when I was 12 but my father put our radio that a friend and I had built in the trash because he got a electric shock from it.  The other reason was cause I liked,  ( Ha Ha ) to talking to people.

       I played around with a CB when I got older, like most of us but not too much. 

        One day,  I was on my motorcycle,  and out in the desert.  Well I got lost,  and thank God, it was not long,  till I ran into the Sheriff.  He was out in the desert because he was looking for some one else who was lost.  He did not know about me.  We talk for a while and then we went back to a town so I would know where I was.  I had lunch with him and his men. Yes,  they did find the person they were looking for. The Sheriff was a HAM Operator also and he began to tell me about HAM RADIO and how it could save my me a lot of trouble. 

     Specially (HA HA ) if I was going to continue to ride around in the desert.  He told me about how great it was to be able to have a system that you could (HA HA) reach out and touch some one and also get help if you needed it.