K1DOD (Jonathan)

Greetings from the town of Los Gatos California, located between San Francisco and Carmel in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. We have 300 days of sunshine each year with an average temperature of 72 (F). The town of “the cats” is the most ironically named place in California considering that 70% of the households here have at least one dog.

Radio interests are meeting people, HF, DX, QRP, all things digital (but NEVER at the expense of analog!), Internet linking, satellite, microwave, EME (Earth-Moon-Earth moon bounce), meteor scatter, all things mobile, emergency communications, simple crystal sets, shortwave listening, antique and vintage radios (a big fan of the early Zenith Trans Oceanic series), the “Golden Age” of radio programming, and the history and impact of radio on society and culture.

In the shack and mobile: FT-8900 (self contained portable satellite and packet), FT-817nd (portable HF), FT-1802, FTM-10R (Vespa Scooter mobile) , VX-8R (APRS/GPS enabled), VX-5R, VX-150, FT-51R (satellite HT), Kenwood TS-2000x, ICOM IC-92-AD (D-Star), Yaesu Aviator Pro II (aircraft transceiver), Motorola MTS2000 (California State Parks), Iridium 9505A satellite phone, IC- R20, IC-RX7, Bearcat BCT15, Sony Wavehawk, Cobra 38 WXST (CB HT), MFJ 993B, LDG Z-817, Force 12 GT5 vertical dipole, homebrew copper pipe J-pole, Radiowavz G5RV center fed multiband, Rigblaster Plus, Rigblaster Plug and Play, DV Dongle, Echolink, Macs and PCs.