AA7BQ

Episode 234 - Fred lloyd - AA7BQ

Fred Lloyd, AA7BQ, is the creator of perhaps the Internet’s oldest ham radio resource, QRZ.com. With over 700 thousand subscribers, QRZ.com is the goto place for hams wanting to look up other hams in its callsign database.  It does however, have a large number of other resources available to amateurs that Fred and Eric, 4Z1UG, discuss in this QSO Today.

Show Notes

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QRP Labs QCX Transceiver Kit

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Fred’s links:  
QRZ.com
QRZ Online logbook
QRZ online forums
QRZ swap meet
QRZ Grid Map - Grid square map
QRZ Awards
QRZ Events
QRZ offers free Advertising on Site for clubs and ham fests
QRZ Apps for Android and IOS
QRZ.com XML Data Subscription Service
QRZ.com - was one of the first 25,000 websites
QRZ CD

About QRZ.com:
4 full time employees
1 part time employee
12 volunteers and moderators
Chief Engineer:  Steve VA7STV

Hometown: St Petersburg, FL
First rigs:
Kenwood TS-820 HF transceiver
Kenwood TM-3530A 220 Mhz FM transceiver

Current rig: 
Flex 6500 HF Transceiver
Icom 7000 HF Transceiver

CB, Citizens Band Radio

TV repair business

Silicon Valley

Ham Radio Outlet Store in Burlingame

First Class Radiotelephone License

Monthly hamfest Silicon Valley

Radio Shack TRS 80 computer
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Apple 2 computer

IBM Training school, IBM PC

Sun Microsystems, OS Software Engineer

Broadcast Engineer

WRXB St. Petersburg, FL

CMOS Handbook

Usenet ham radio

Amateur Radio Callbook

Dial Up bulletin board system

W5YI Group

Gordon West Study Guides

Logbook of the World

Virtual business VS brick and mortar

Green Heron Engineering amateur radio accessories

W4PG rotator using ham radio deluxe and QRZ.com

Amazon AWS

Pilot and flight instructor

CFII multi engine endorsement

Civil air patrol

Excited most by:  Software Defined Radio

Advice to new or returning hams:  Go on line (to QRZ) to see what other amateurs are doing.

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Kenwood TS-820S HF Transceiver

Flex Radio 6500 HF SDR Transceiver

Icom IC-7000 Transceiver