K7OSE History and past station
I was licensed in 1964 as WN8OSE (novice) in Cleveland,
Ohio and upgraded in 1965 to General Class as WA8OSE at Columbus, Ohio. In 1966, I went on to Advance Class and on to Extra in 1986 . W8OSE was issued in 1996. W8OSE holds the DXCC Honor Roll #1 and 5 band DXCC along with many others.
At present, W8OSE has confirmed 355 total countries (mixed mode) with 354 on Voice , 335 on Morse code, and 269 on RTTY (Teletype).
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Main tower is a Tri-X electric crankup (70') with a 3 element12/17/30 meters Beam, and stacked 15' above that is a Triband 10/15/20
meter beam . All antennas have
underground feed and are remote switched. The main
operating position of the W8OSE amateur station consist of
FT1000-MP transceiver with dual receivers, Commander
2500 Amp 10-160 meters (HF), high speed internet for
Packet-cluster and 2 Meter FM for DX net. Computes are
Pen II-350/128 Megs of RAM / 6Gig. drive, and a 333Mhz K6, and a 1Ghz
Laptop in a network. Software for RTTY
is MMTTY 1.62 and writelog Rtty
Logging by DX4WIN with computer interface
to radio, packetcluster, and internet.