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My name is Neal Benham, I am an Extra Class license holder. I was first licensed in 2-96 and upgraded one step at a time till I made Extra in 4-98. I started out on CB of coarse, but wanted to learn more and needed a better place to operate, so I started studying the ham books.
............I started out with a Ranger 2950 and a Moonraker beam, a good combination for 10 meters. I worked all states and all continents on 10M SSB.
.My station now consists of Yaesu FT 840, MFJ 969 tuner, Cushcraft R7 vertical antenna and Astron 20 amp power supply. I also have a Maco 3 element dual polarity beam at 50 feet and 80 meter dipole. My VHF equipment includes an Icom 2100H and MFJ stacked 5/8 wave antenna.
I started doing CW in February 99 and liked it, that was with the Ranger, not a lot of CW on 10 meters tho. But I picked up the Yaesu in July, and it came ready to go with the CW filter in it. So I was doing a lot more CW, more than sideband. I like CW and want to get better at it, I'm working with W1AW to get 100% solid copy at 20 wpm, I'm real close.
me at field day at KB9TAA's QTH
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