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This site was last updated 02/19/07

    Been married to Lydia, W1ANN, since 1968 and we have one son who is a minister in Knoxville Tenn, his wife and two grandsons, twins, who were born on my birthday.  That's the family.

   I have been interested in radio for as long as I remember. Learned the code back in 1970 while living in Massachusettes,  after 8 years in the service, but did not know any hams to point me in the right direction.  I drive a tractor trailer for a living and after getting sick of the trash on CB and throwing it out the window, I needed something to listen to.  Those words "HAM RADIO" came back to me.     An old Ham, whose name I never knew, said to me "If you are going to get your ticket do it right...learn the code".    My hat's off to that fellow because CW is the only mode I operate on HF. "Nice folk down thar."

   I travel coast to coast border to border pulling a tank wagon behind me and after 30+ years and over 3 million miles of chasing a white line down the highway, I think I can almost say "been there done that."

  With my present radio, a Ten Tec, strapped in the passenger seat and a Vibroplex paddle whacker strapped to my leg you can usually find me down on 40m around the FISTS frequency of 7.058.  Don't work many contests, (only field day) like to ragchew instead.

  Like to homebrew stuff with tubes if  I ever can find the time to heat up a soldering iron while sitting still. Built the station from a 1943 handbook while on the road and had the soldering iron burn marks on my truck to prove it. Working on pictures of a couple of transmitters and receivers I have put together with the most appreciated help of Pop,W4HQF, and will put them on here as soon as I can.

  Have only old radios and homebrew stuff in my home station. Drakes, Heathkits, Swans and my newer rig a Kenwood 520. Even my 2 meter rig is an old Heathkit. I like to use a bug at the house, a Blue Racer by Vibroplex that my wife and son bought me for my 60th birthday, but use a Vibroplex paddle or a J37 straight key on the road.

  I am a member of ARRL, Gaston County Amature Radio Society (GCARS), ARIES, a volunteer examiner for ARRL,  and a member (#7035) of the FISTS CW club.

Well..That's all folks...C YA es 73's