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...in the picturesque Brandywine Valley of Southeast Pennsylvania. |
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Loring "Lor" Kutchins |
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Home Station: 39º 58´ 41¨N 75º 38´ 14¨W Grid Square FM29ex East Bradford Township, Pennsylvania Chester County, USA |
Maritime Mobile: Aboard S/V Cirrus on the Chesapeake Bay, Intracoastal Waterway, Atlantic Ocean, and Caribbean Sea. |
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Via the Callbook the Bureau or http://www.eQSL.cc. Return QSL's guaranteed! |
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Find me now: |
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APRS Home Station --- My Car --- APRS weather around my QTH All this is courtesy of the Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS) and APRSnet. |
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Rigs: |
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160 -10M: Kenwood TS-50S, (barefoot) usually running <100 Watts. 2M: Pair of old HTX-202s for general purposes and a homebrew transceiver dedicated to APRS. A homebrew APRS tracker/telemetry radio is aboard Cirrus. Another in my car. |
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80 -10M: 80M full-wave loop, vertical, 90 feet high, fed by an SGC-230 automatic antenna tuner. Also, G5RV at 70 feet high, tuned by a little MFJ Versa Tuner II. More are under construction. 2M: MFJ dual 5/8 wave, vertically polarized, at 50 feet. Several J-poles at 50-100 feet. |
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I was first licensed in 1965 as WN6PUO. Other calls through the years include WN0OKE, N3QOQ and V31DI (Belize). I like to homebrew. Here is a look at my latest 'concept' rig!I'm also an active member of Chester County ARES/RACES.And I'll be going on a medical mission to Honduras as a radio operator for the International Health Service. |
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Contact me by E-mail: [email protected] -- [email protected] -- [email protected] |
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Be sure to make a note in my guestbook! |
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W3QA
Last updated 23 October 2001. Copyright © 2001 Loring Kutchins. All rights reserved.