I was licensed as a Technichian as KC9CVH on 4 December 2002, and upgraded to General on 18 February 2023 after a long period of inactivity. I am currently active and upgrading my equipment. You can find out more about me here, though it is mostly not ham-related.

Summer 2023 (May-August) I am on Orcas Island, Washington (USA) – grid square: CN88mq. In addition to working out of the pictured Airstream Ham Shack, I may be doing some SOTA, POTA, BOTA in adjacent grid squares.

For base operations at home in North Carolina (USA), I am restricted to a rain gutter antenna:

The glorious rain gutter.

My base and portable radio is an ICOM 7300:

ICOM 7300, a great radio!

Portable antenna is on order

For mobile, I'm using a Kenwood TH-F6A triband handheld transciever operating on 144/220/440 MHz at 5 watts:

Kenwood TH-F6A.

Old base station antenna, out of service: Diamond F22A single band 2m base station antenna. 7/8 wave, 6.7dB gain.

Old base station

Base station communications to facilitate multiband radio use are out of service:

Samlex SEC-1212 power supply.

OldER mobile station.

Old mobile station.