W3QA

...in the picturesque Brandywine Valley of Southeast Pennsylvania.

   Loring "Lor" Kutchins

QTH:

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.

QSL:

Via the Callbook the Bureau or http://www.eQSL.cc. Return QSL's guaranteed!

 Find me now:

APRS Home Station --- My Car --- APRS weather around my QTH

All this is courtesy of the Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS) and APRSnet.

Rigs:

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.

Antennas:

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.

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.

Contact me by E-mail: w3qa@qsl.net  -- w3qa@arrl.net -- lor@w3qa.net

Be sure to make a note in my guestbook!