NK7W About

Life member: ARRL, RSO and others
Member: Royal Gorge Amateur Radio Club, Canyon City, Colorado (also on the Board of Directors)
Member: President of the Beaver Creek Amateur Radio Association, in the Red Rocks at Beaver Creek Ranch Community (a property owners association), near Penrose, Colorado.
Past member of many Ham radio clubs across 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 times during the six years I was stationed there.
I'm also the founding President of several Amateur Radio (HAM) clubs in the United States, including the Moreno Valley Amateur Radio Association in California, the Beaver Creek Amateur Radio Association in Colorado, and others.

10-X # 39658
EPC # 16305

Please QSL via eQSL.cc. My card is "Authenticity Guaranteed"
(AG), which means they have a copy of my HAM license on file.

We moved to the "Edge of the Middle of Nowhere," 8 miles North of Penrose, Colorado, in the middle of April 2019 to build our new 80-acre Belted Galloway cattle ranch. The ranch shall consist of cattle, a Honey Bee Apiary, a fruit orchard and others. There's lots of work to do clearing the pastures of scrub brush (Juniper and others), invasive species (cactus & weeds), seeding, building the Ag building, corrals, fence, irrigation, and many other things before the construction is completed. This is very time-consuming, especially since I do much of the work alone. Anyone want to help???

October 2019

We're finally in the house (June 2019 and the shack is partially operational. I installed a 40-foot fiberglass push-up mast and Tennadyne broadband folded dipole for 160-10 meters. Until I can plant the towers and install the rest of the antennas, I'm operating on 2 m and 70 cm with a temporary mag-mount dual-band mobile antenna on a two-drawer file cabinet in the shack. One problem with the HF dipole antenna is that it's in a temporary location and will be moved again. Check out my Rebel Ranch web site for information on our ranch. I'll update both this site and the ranch website as things change.

There just isn't enough time or money to get everything that I want to do done. Due to my disability, I'll need assistance installing the tower(s) and antennas. I have several hundred feet of Rohn 25G (I picked up sections for pennies on the dollar) and will put multiple 30 and 40-foot towers. I want a tower close to, or next to the shack for V/UHF (shorter coax for less line loss) and a tower a short distance away from the shack (50 to 100 feet) to prevent RFI to the computers and other equipment from the HF rigs. Also, multiple towers spread out on my 80 acres with remoted radios.

Antennas currently in the air:

Tennadyne TD-SS120, 120-foot long stainless steel 160-10 meter Broadband Folded Dipole. The feed point is about 35 feet, and each end is approximately 11 feet, with the wires running NE/SW.

The major update for this part of the website is that the XYL and I are writers and authors. Check our Rebel Ranch Publishing website to see our current books. We're writing others, some of which shall be published in 2025.

I'm either active, or I've been active in the following radio activities and modes:

ARRL and W5YI Volunteer Examiner.

ARRL Official Observer (while living in several different states), until the program was changed.

AF MARS (joined in 1994)

DHS SHARES (joined in 2009)

Digital modes (MARS/SHARES and ham digital modes).

Packet

HF and VHF SSB

HF and VHF CW (when I can remember the code)

HF and VHF FM

FM repeaters (2 meter and 70 cm)

APRS (automatic position reporting system), in my Ram 2500 truck, and digipeater in the shack.

WSPR (Weak Signal Propagation Reporter), in the shack using very low transmit power levels; running 5 watts, or less. Visit their website wsprnet.org for additional information, or to join. WSPR is featured in the November 2010 issue of QST

SkyWarn

Rigs:

Yaesu FTDX101MP. All modes 200 watts 160-6 meters
Not in photo
Kenwood TS-480SAT. All modes 100 watts 160-6 meters.
Not in photo
Kenwood TS-2000X. All modes, 100 watts on 160-6 meters. All modes, 100 watts on 2 meters. All modes, 50 watts on 70 cm, and all modes 10 watts on 1.2 GHz. Photo bottom center
Yaesu FT-1000mp MK V. All modes 200 watts 160-10 meters. Photo bottom left
Tempo 2020 100 watts CW, AM, and SSB 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meters [Pre-WARC]. Photo top left
Yaesu FT-8900 mobile 50 watts FM on 10, 6, and 2 meters. 35 watts on 70 cm
Anytone D-578 DMR 2/70 dual-band mobile 50 watts 2m 40 watts 70cm
Alinco MD-500 DMR 2/70 dual-band mobile 50 watts on 2m, 40 watts on 70cm
Alinco MD-5 DMR 2/70 dual band HT
ZUMspot-RPI Hotspot - On-air DMR in/out and ALL voice digital modes to/from the internet (selectable)
RM Italy BLA 1000 amplifier. 1 KW output, 160-
10 meters and 6 meters.
Heathkit SB-220 amplifier. 2 KW (1,500 watts PEP) 80-10 meters. Photo top center left (black face)
Heathkit SB-200 amplifier. 1,200 watts (input per the owner's manual), 400 - 800 watts out depending on frequency, on 80-10 meters. Photo top center-right (green face)
Additional radios not listed here.

Other equipment:

MFJ legal limit automatic and manual antenna tuners
Dell Optiplex 760 Dual CPU 2.80 GHz desktop.
Ubuntu Linux (Windows 7 Ultimate stopped booting after a microsoft update for the Specter meltdown in January 2018). I'm completely disgusted with microsoft and plan to replace the windows operating systems on all of my desktop and laptop computers with Linux!
Gateway 2.80 GHz Pentium 4 desktop built in 2002.
Windows XP Professional (Linux shall be installed when XP quits working)
Server, Linux operating system
Masters Communications DRA-100, high performance sound card interface (not in photo)
Signalink USB digital interface (4 - three not in photo).
AEA PK-232 digital interface (two, not in Photo)
Timewave Navigator digital interface (not in photo)
Fldigi software for digital modes.
MIL-STD digital
mode software (MARS and SHARES)
HAM and MARS/SHARES ALE (Automatic Link Establishment) software.
Phone patch (3, two not in photo)
APRS Microsat WX3in1 Plus 2.0 Advanced Digipeater
APRS Voyager 7-watt transceiver (2), one is in my truck, the other is in the shack
Uniden SDS200 scanner (25 Mhz to 1300 Mhz not in photo)
Additional stuff, junk and goodies normally found in HAM shacks