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K7NM

8/3/2024

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Episode 513 - Lee Barrett - K7NM

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Lee Barrett, K7NM, has had a wonderful career, in broadcast radio,  military projects, command and control, spacecraft, and medical device development.  His early initiation into amateur radio set in motion all that came later in both professional and amateur radio life. From early in his ham radio career, Lee published papers on vertical antenna beam tilt for repeater networks, and well as his most recent “C-Match Method of Phasing HF Vertical Antennas.  He was a presenter at the QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo, speaks to radio clubs all over the United States, and at the Dayton Hamvention.  K7NM is my QSO today.
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4X1MK_2

10/14/2023

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Episode 471 - Ron Gang - 4X1MK

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​Ron Gang, 4X1MK, had his early amateur radio beginnings in Canada, and later immigrated, as part of a group, to Israel in the 1970s, where his amateur radio license, skills, and equipment were highly appreciated and valued.  Always an active amateur radio operator, 4X1MK is willing to try every operating mode. Ron is also a musician and painter who shares his amateur radio story and his perspectives of the amateur radio service in Israel, past and present.
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OH2UDS

5/13/2023

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Episode 450 - Baris Dinc - OH2UDS

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Baris Dinc, OH2UDS, has a  passion for amateur radio that has shaped his life and career in remarkable ways. Growing up in Turkey with a father who loved tinkering with electronics, Baris was exposed to the world of radio communication early on through articles in the Turkish Amateur Radio Society Magazine, which further ignited his love for the craft. Baris was the only child under 18 to hold a Turkish amateur license with the call sign TA7W. This early achievement set the stage for an illustrious career, which included earning a BSEE from Ankara University and spearheading the ambitious communications projects, QO-100 earth stations and the  Mars on Earth project to interest kids in radio and satellites.  OH2UDS is my QSO Today.
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4Z1JJ

4/15/2023

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Episode 446 - Rich Gussow - 4Z1JJ

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Rich Gussow, 4Z1JJ, discovered ham radio in high school and finally got his amateur radio ticket in his first year at Brooklyn College in 1976, where he quickly built up his operating skills and amateur theory to upgrade to Advanced within a year.   Single Side-band is Rich’s favorite mode, and now Rich enjoys working amateur satellites in voice and packet modes from his QTH in Modiin, Israel.  4Z1JJ is my QSO Today.
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W8ARU

7/2/2022

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Episode 407 - Arun Kumar - W8ARU

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Arun Kumar, W8ARU, builds most of the gear that he uses on the air, based on a skillset that he learned from becoming an amateur radio operator in India in the 1960s.  This skill set combined with advanced degrees in engineering has put Arun on the cutting edge of solar and battery technologies used in big equipment as the World is going green.  Arun was also Ashhar Farhan, VU2ESE’s original mentor, one of his many major contributions to our hobby.  W8ARU is my QSO Today.
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WD9EWK

2/13/2021

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Episode 340 - Patrick Stoddard - WD9EWK

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Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK, is best known for his satelite QSOs using portable gear from grid squares all over the World.  He documents and captures many of his contacts and the equipment that he uses on his website and YouTube Channel.  WD9EWK is a recent addition to the AMSAT board of directors and is my QSO Today.
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W5NYV

12/12/2020

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Episode 331 - Michelle Thompson - W5NYV

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Michelle Thompson, W5NYV, is a third generation amateur, beginning her ham radio journey in elementary school.  Her interest in microwave circuit design and computers led her to a successful engineering career and now she is board member of AMSAT.  Michelle is an advocate for open source applied to satellite design, fueling future generations of amateur spacecraft. W5NYV is my QSO Today.
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4Z1YR

12/21/2019

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Episode 281 - Yoram Rotbach - 4Z1YR

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If you want to get stuff done, you give it to a busy person.  Yoram Rotbach, 4Z1YR, is the busy ham who has become the repeater tzar for the Israel Amateur Radio Club.  Now retired from the Israeli military, but still employed full time with an international corporation, Yoram is leading the charge to replace and refurbish Israel’s repeater network while at the same time pursuing his own projects that include: DMR, Brandmeister, microwave linking, mesh networking, and satellite operation.  
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ZL3DW

11/2/2019

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Episode 274 - Andrew Barron - ZL3DW

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Andrew Barron, ZL3DW, is an active ham, loves to discover what’s new in ham radio, and is the author of four amateur radio books, one on SDR or software defined radio, and 3 user guides on the latest Icom transceivers.  In addition, we discuss the Russian Sputnik ham satellites and amateur radio’s diversity in this QSO Today. ​
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VU2TS

10/19/2019

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Episode 272 - Ganesh Subramaniam - VU2TS

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Ganesh Subramaniam, VU2TS, began his ham radio journey in 1959 trying to find someone, anyone, somewhere in his native Bangalore, India, who could provide basic information about the amateur radio service in India. Ganesh has been a ham over 50 years and is the editor of the Amateur Radio Society of India’s magazine,  Ham Radio News. VU2TS shares his ham radio story in this QSO Today.
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W2HRO

9/21/2019

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Episode 268 - Paul Andrews - W2HRO

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Paul Andrews, W2HRO, re-entered amateur radio, after a 35 year break,  by working FM satellites with a Yaesu portable and a dual band antenna.  Experimentation with a simple moon bounce array led to bigger and better antenna arrays, power amplifiers, low noise pre-amplifiers, higher frequencies, and more QSOs. ​
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