Welcome to the NC7I Home Page
Amateur Radio Station NC7I is located in Flower Mound, TX, Denton County, Grid EM12.
This page contains links to pictures and stuff about ham radio.
Welcome to my Ham Radio website. My name is Norm Cramer and this site is dedicated to
my Ham Radio Activities. For more information about Ham Radio
see the ARRL web site.
I was licensed in April 1978 at the age of 14. My first
callsign was WD2AEM. I kept that callsign throughout my
first 20+ years of Ham Radio. When I upgraded to extra in
January 2000, I decided to shorten my call. Since all of the
1x2's with my initials in area 7 (I lived in AZ at the time) were gone, I selected a 2x1
that started with my initials.
My radio activity has gone in waves with my initial activity
as a teen focused on HF CW mainly 15M. When I went to
college, I stuck to 2M FM. After college, I went into the US
Navy as a submarine officer. I ended up in Charleston SC
on the USS TECUMSEH SSBN-628(GOLD). My Ham activity
picked up again in SC due to a little more time and a great
group of hams in TARC. My activity was mainly HF and
RS-10 Sat.
After the Navy, I went to the Dallas TX area to work for Texas Instruments(TI).
My activity there was minimal due to starting a family. TI
was bought by Raytheon, and Raytheon moved my job to
Tucson, AZ. In Tucson, I went to a hamfest and saw a guy
work AO-27 with an HT and an Arrow antenna. I had to do
this, I sold some old gear, bought a FT-51RHP dualband HT
and got on AO-27. I then got a smaller HF rig
(Yaesu FT-840) to
get on HF and RS-13. I recently
added an Alinco DX-70T to my collection.
The DX-70T is hooked up in the car and
now I get on HF during
my commute to and from work. I currently lurk on 10m
around 28.5 and on 20m around 14.2. I am also on HF from my
home QTH sporadically.
Click the door to look inside my shack at my old QTH in Tucson AZ
- A short tour of the AZ shack.
- Peek inside my Ford Windstar to see my mobile HF/VHF/UHF station.
- Satellites can be fun too. Look at my portable satellite station.
- Have a look at the Cramer Family webpage.
- Baby Pictures of Joshua Ryan Cramer.
- More links to come soon including the new antenna farm in the attic at my new QTH.
Thanks for stopping by
Drop me an email
[email protected]
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