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Episode 109 - Susan Meckley - W7KFI There is no time like the present to sail the South Pacific, solo, with amateur radio. This is exactly what Susan Meckley, W7KFI, did for almost twenty years until she retired from the open seas at almost eighty years of age. As a ham for almost seventy years, Susan developed a love for 20 meter CW and sailing. She combined them both in her journey that she shares with Eric, 4Z1UG, in this QSO Today.
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Episode 104 - Richard Stroud - W9SR Dick Stroud, W9SR, took his first ham radio test in 1938 that began a ham radio and professional journey as an electronic engineer. This journey, over 75 years, included witnessing the hydrogen bomb tests in the 1950, a successful engineering career, and numerous contributions to the amateur radio hobby of articles on homebrewing, antennas, and propagation. W9SR is my QSO Today.
Episode 100 - Ned Stearns - AA7A After over 50 years in amateur radio, the hobby still gives Ned Stearns, AA7A, a new challenge every day. Ned has operated every mode on every band during his ham radio career, and currently operates EME or moon bounce on two meters. As a long time DXer, Ned recently returned from the South Sandwich Islands as a member of the Intrepid DX Group DXpedition. AA7A is my QSO Today.
Episode 099 - Jeff Murray - K1NSS Jeff Murray, K1NSS is a cartoonist and story teller who specializes in being a keen observer of ham radio and ham radio operators. He uses his website, dashtoons.com, to share his cartoons and stories with all of us. Cartoonists, especially political and social cartoonists, use their medium to get us to lighten up a bit, look in the mirror, and put everything into perspective. Jeff does the same with this amateur radio cartoons, and his main character, Dash!, The Dog-Faced Ham. K1NSS is my guest on this QSO Today.
Episode 95 - H.P. "Pete" Friedrichs - AC7ZL From his first long nose pliers, at the age of six, to his private use of the chemistry lab at his junior high-school, Pete Friedrichs, AC7ZL, has had a fascination with technology, chemistry, and radio. Often this is old but amazing technology that he recreates with the remnants of discarded objects. Pete is a renaissance man whose study and fabrication of "simple" technology rivals that of some of America's great inventors. He is a published author of books based on his experiments, as well as fiction and ghost stories. AC7ZL is Eric's guest on QSO Today.
Episode 094 - Ellen White - W1YL
Episode 092 - Bob Epstein - K8IA
Episode - 090 - Gregory Andracke - W2BEE
Episode 080 - Mike Rainey - AA1TJ If you were stranded on a desert island, with the hopeless possibility of no rescue, then you would want to be stranded with Mike Rainey, AA1TJ, who could whip up a sound powered 80 meter transceiver from a tail light of your broken aircraft. Mike's can do attitude and the ability to make a RF transmitter from just about anything makes for an interesting conversation with Eric, 4Z1UG, on QSO Today.
Episode 078 - Bob Hopkins - WB2UDC
Episode 074 - Don Greenbaum - N1DG
Episode 070 - Bill tippetT - W4ZV Bill Tippett, W4ZV’s ham radio journey is a series of firsts. He was the first USA Novice licensee to achieve DXCC, first teenager to achieve DXCC Honor Roll, first 160 meter DXCC from “0” land, and the first amateur radio operator Worldwide to work 300 DXCC countries on 160 meters. Bill shares his ham radio story with Eric, 4Z1UG, on QSO Today.
Episode 069 - Howard Sherer - AE3T
Episode 068 - Don Huff - W6JL When it comes to hams making their own kind of music, one has to think of Don Huff, W6JL, who notes on his QRZ page that people who make things are happier than those who buy them. Don operates a completely modular home-brew HF station and power amplifier that is continuously variable in output power from 50 mw to 550 watts. Don loves to rag chew and share, and this is why he is Eric, 4Z1UG’s guest on QSO Today.
Episode 067 - Nick Kennedy - WA5BDU According to Nick Kennedy, WA5BDU, we live in the “golden age” of home brewing in amateur radio. Nick explains how this golden age is possible, what he does with a former AT&T long-lines microwave site, and highlights his amateur radio journey, with Eric, 4Z1UG, on QSO Today.
Episode 058 - chuck Adams - K7QO
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