Episode 319 - Bill SalYers - AJ8B
 | Bill Salyers, AJ8B, had a great ham radio start as a kid in the Seventies. Bill loves to work CW to pursue DXCC and just to rag chew and communicate. He hones his skills with the help of CWOPS and is open to the opportunities afforded by all of the new digital modes. AJ8B is my QSO Today. |
| Father: Jerry Salyers, K8DWE First License: 1971 Novice, Age 11, WN8TZN Later KD8DF Favorite mobile mode: SSB First Rig: “The Novice Special” Transmitter Eico 720 Transmitter Hallicrafters SX-111 Current Rig: Yaesu FT-950 HF Transceiver HF Vertical Antenna OCF Dipole, 160 meter Yaesu FT857D HF, VHF, UHF Transceiver Favorite Mobile Operating Band: 17 meters People: Clara Blankemeyer, WA8FLH, Catholic Nun Amateur Radio Missionary Nets Mentors: Frank Jaworski, K1FJ John “Jay” Slough, K4ZLE Joe Pater, W8GEX 60 meter Guru Tom Inglin, NR8Z Terms: QSL Manager Globe King 500 Transmitter, 500 Watts Clegg Receiver HF Hallicrafters SX-111 Receivers Little Print Shop, Texas Hartley Oscillator Pierce Oscillator Colpitts Oscillator National Traffic System DXCC Award University of Dayton, OH, Computer Engineering Dayton Hamvention Cincinnati Area Tent Tuners - need reference QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo Pitney Bowes Company Hewlett Packard, Systems Engineer Yaesu FT950 HF Transceiver TNC - Terminal Node Controller and packet radio Compuserve DX Spotting Network also known as DX clusters Visual Basic Programming Language South West Ohio DX Association Newsletter QRZ.com ADA Programming Language DOD Department of Defense, DOD National Contest Journal - Raspberry Pi Recorder Arduino Controller Secret to driving and operating ham radio: Listen, Listen, Listen 80 meter DXCC Jack Ritter, W0UCE, (SK) founder of CWOPS Navy Morse Code Trainer CWOPS CW Academy Vibroplex Keyer QSL Card Display Board K9LA.US Favorite Test Equipment: Tektronix Scope, 465 Greatest challenge facing amateur radio now: spectrum encroachment by other services, and we have to be open to new modes like FT8. Excited most by: New Joe Taylor, K1JT, modes; SDR. Puts hams back into the leading edge. Advice to new or returning hams: Stay open minded. Join a club. Be patient in an excited kind of way. Joe W8GEX, says, “be forward, reach out to other hams”. The RSS Feed for all audio content from QSO today is available from here. Please join our QSO Today community by pressing the button below. It is the best way to suggest guests and topics, and provide feedback to Eric, 4Z1UG. |  Eico 720 Novice Transmitter  Yaesu FT-950 HF Transceiver  Clegg 66 Six Meter Receiver  Yaesu FT-857D Mobile HF/VHF/UHF Transceiver |
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