Welcome to the

QRZ web page for KG6GLN!

My name is Roy Sakabu, and my QTH is Sacramento, California.

Licensing story

I received my license on May 10th 2001, after passing elements 1, 2 and 3 on May 5th, 2001 thanks to the VEC’s at the Yuba-Sutter Amateur Radio Club. The test was very well organized and professionally run. I intended to only go for my Technicians class license and had only studied for a few weeks but since I couldn’t find a local test that fit into my schedule, I decided to get the study guide for the General Class license and a set of Morse Code tapes and go for the whole enchilada. I took element 3 first which was good, because I thought if I got through that, the Element 2 test would be no problem. It was. I took the Element 2 test immediately after the General test and sailed through it. Luckily, there were two others who were taking the code test so I had to wait for them to finish before taking my test. As it turned out, one fellow had to take it twice and still did not pass so I had to wait about 30 minutes for all of that to complete. The code was sent at a moderate pace, not using the Farnsworth 20 wpm spaced at 5 wpm method. This kept the dits and dahs coming at a leisurely pace and relaxed me.

While copying the code, I did what a lot of people probably did. I started getting nervous and started dropping characters. While copying, I started saying "what are you doing here" and "just drop the pencil and walk out!". Well I kept copying and actually did pretty good. I got all 10 questions correct and am now a General Class amateur radio operator!

You should be one too!

Rigs:

HF:

Alinco DX-77EQ off of a 20 meter dipole temporarily hanging in the backyard between the fences. Home brewed pi-network tuner from plans by C02KK

VHF/UHF:

Yaesu VX-5R

Alinco DJ-V5TH

Receivers:

Icom R-75

Yaesu FRG-7, FRG-7700

Drake SW-1, PRN-1000

Sony ICF-2010