Our member of the month is Tim Calhoun, KU4YY, of the RF overloaded Christopher section of Hazard.  Between last month's operator, KD4ZAO, KE4WWY, and Tim, Christopher is well represented in the hamdom of Perry County.  Tim has become quite active on the HF bands since moving to Christopher and getting his tower and Quad up.  Like many operators, he had to have a "partner in crime" when starting out, and his friend and elmer was Sid Adams, WI4M.  I believe they worked together when Tim was getting licensed, or at least shortly thereafter.  One great operation I remember them doing together was the CQ Phone DX contest when they had the famous rotatable vee antenna, one leg of which was tied to Tim's truck way out on the airport. Anyway, Tim has the following to say.
           "When I am on the radio I spend most of my time on 20 meters, I enjoy working DX, and I also enjoy listening to shortwave broadcast stations, and listening to my scanner. I was first licensed in 1994 andupgraded to general in 95 and upgraded to advanced in 99." 
          "John these pics are a couple of years old everything is the same except the HT I now have a Alinco DJ-190 and I have a MFJ 3 kw tuner model 986-c, the rig is an Icom IC-745 and the 2-Meter rig is a Kenwood TM-231A , and the antenna is a cubex quad 10,15,and 20 meter and an  all band dipole. (Since Tim had the mishap at project day, ed.) I can't even hear any dx stations my vfo reads 0000 hopefully I will get my parts soon.             73" KU4YY

           Well, I don't want to leave anyone important in Tim's household out, and he also sent the picture of the DX Cat on the right.  Tim works at Trus-Joist McMillan (or whatever it is now), and has been married a couple years from my poor memory.  Just goes to prove there is ham radio after matrimony....take heart Bob!

I also remember the first time Tim went to the Dayton Hamvention with his partner in crime.  I met him headed out of the gate with a huge, seemed like a small-refrigerator-sized enclosure which he said was a linear amplifier with which he was going to put Leatherwood on the RF map.  As I recall, he had to rewire the house to get it to work without blinking the lights and shutting everything down.  I still wonder how he got that piece of machinery up the hill to the parking lot.

Published May 4, 2000.