NET Historian

Born San Francisco 2/6/1921, Graduated Sacramento (CA) High School 1939. Member 1940 US Olympic Swimming Team. Served in US Naval Air Corps WWII, Ensign to Lt.Cmdr. received the Distinguished Flying Cross . Received BSEE Utah State University, Logan, Utah 6/47, Graduate studies at Harvard and MIT.

First licensed 1/2/40 as W6SID, Other calls held W0SID, while engineer at Collins Radio, W5OAI, at Los Alamos , NM also formed my engineering company representing such companies as HP, Tektronix and Varian Assocs. Retired 1962. Moved to CA, then to WA held KB6KQN, WB7WEI, KB7KE. Life Member Western Washington DX Club, also served as trustee. DXCC 309 Countries. Winner for 7th call area, 7th in USA 1980 CQ World Wide WPX Contest for Single Station, Multiple Operators. NZART Awards, New Zealand County Hunters 224 Award #37 World Wide, ENZART TOP HONORS Award #1 World Wide. Was mobile 1983 to 1989 as we toured the US in our RV.

Retired Electronic Engineering Rep. enjoying the casual life in the Palm Springs area.

January 2, 1940 first licensed 67 years in ham radio

August 1976 to 2006 30 years with the net

SOME OF MY STATIONS

MY FIRST STATION W6SID
1940

Back in 1940(pre WWII) the only license one could et as a new amateur radio operator was known as a Class B license (None existent today). It had to be taken at the FCC office in San Francisco in my case after of one year of only 40 meter cw and 160 meter AM you could take the Class A exam (Advanced today) Extra Class License was non-existent at that time. My station consisted of:

Bretting 9 Receiver (9 tubes including power supply)

6L6 Crystal Oscillator (home brew)

80 Rectifier Power supply

Antenna was a half wave doublet

KB7KE 1978-1982

This my Station near Seattle in 1980 when I was a net controller for the Bill Bennett Family Hour. This station also won the CQ WORLD WIDE WPX CONTEST for the 7th call area and 7th in the USA. It consisted of the Drake Twins, TR4C & TX4C, into a Dentron Clipperton-L Amplifier 1KW and a Hi-Gain TH-5 Beam as the antenna

Collins Station

My Collins Station 2007

75S-3B Receiver

32S-1 Transmitter

516F-2 Power Supply

30L-1 Linear Amplifier

R-7 Multi-Band Vertical

My Current Station

ICOM 756 PRO III Transceiver

AMERITRON AL-80B Amplifier

LDG AT-1000 Autotuner

CUSHCRAFT R-7 Vertical Antenna

MY ANTENNA SYSTEM

CUSHCRAFT R-7 MIULTI-BAND VERTICAL

The R-7 Multi-Band Half Wave Vertical for 6, 10, 12, 15, 17, 20, 30, and 40 Meters

There are no ground radials required and is only 22.5 feet tall having a small footprint it meets the CC&R requirements. It switches bands automatically and has a very low angle of radiation (nice for DX) and will handle up to 1200 watts.