NK7W About

Life member ARRL, RSO and others. Past member of many Ham radio clubs in the USA and around the world, including the JARL while stationed in Japan.
I've held every elected and appointed office in many of these clubs, including the office of President of the Radio Society of Okinawa (RSO) several time during my 6 years there.
I've also been the founding President of several HAM clubs in the United States.

Rigs:	Computer:
Kenwood TS-2000X. All modes 100 watts 160-6 meters. 50 watts ERP USB on 60 meters. All modes 100 watts on 2 meters. All modes 50 watts on 70 cm and all modes 10 watts on 1.2Ghz. Tempo 2020 100 watts CW, AM and SSB 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters. Yaesu FT-8900 mobile 50 watts FM on 10, 6 and 2 meters. 35 watts on 70 cm Heathkit SB-200 amplifier. 1,200 watts PEP (input per the owners manual) on 80-10 meters.	Gateway 2.80 GHz Pentium 4 desk top built in 2002. Buxcomm Rascal audio and PTT interface for digital communications, ALE and Echolink. MixW software for most digital modes.
HF Antennas:	Other Antennas:
Butternut HF9V Ground mounted 80-6 meter 9 band vertical. The feed point is 24 inches above the ground with 24 radials and 100 feet of coax (currently with two barrel connectors joining two 50 foot lengths to the short jumper on the antenna). I will be adding more radials as time permits and replace the coax with a 100 ft length as finances permit. B&W BWDS-90N 160-10 meters Broadband Folded Dipole 90 feet overall configured as a semi-inverted V, hanging on the end of a wooden dowel 3 feet away from the side of a 30 foot Rohn 25G tower at the 29 foot level with the North end at 20 feet and the South end at 14 feet. End-fed, 245 foot long wire ten feet above the ground. Slight problem with this antenna - It's four feet directly above a six foot chain link fence and only seems to work on 80 meters and close by MARS frequencies with excellent results. However, it tunes very well with a roller inductor tuner on the higher bands, but seems to attenuate both receive signals and transmit power. 80 meter dipole currently configured as a horizontal/sloping V, open to the South. The feed point is at 23 feet on the tower which is low, but due to other antennas in the way, it's a high as I can go for now. The end of the East leg is at 12 feet and the West leg is at 14 feet which can't be lowered due to a 13'6" clearance requirement as it goes over the driveway. Since I'm in the Northern end of the MARS region, I installed this antenna in this configuration to try to get a stronger signal into the Southern part of the region on the frequencies close to the 80 meter band and over time, will be tweaking the heights for the best configuration. This antenna works very well as a general coverage receiving antenna below 30 meters and on the higher harmonics. It also worked very well with a tuner on a few of the higher MARS frequencies I tried. I was really surprised that it works especially well on the VLF frequencies down to 30 KHz which is as low as my receiver will tune. I have never heard much of anything down that low and never WWVB on 60 KHz until I installed this antenna! There are some really interesting signals down there. Home brew 20 meter mono-band yagi: In the beginning construction stage. Will be mounted on the ten foot mast on top of the 30 foot tower between 32 to 35 feet.	Tri-band vertical on 2m, 70cm and 23cm. It's either a Diamond of Comet, but I forgot which. Currently at about 15 feet, but will be mounted on the tower at about 40 feet. Satellite antennas: M² Egg-beaters. EB-44 on 2 m and EB-432 on 70 cm. Both at 15 feet above the ground with about 50 feet horizontal separation. Six meter Ringo Ranger vertical. Will be mounted on two tower sections at 20 feet. 10 element dual band 2 m and 70 cm beam horizontally polarized. Will be mounted on the tower at about 38 feet

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