N6CL

Episode 241 - Joe Lynch - N6CL

Joe Lynch, N6CL, began his ham radio story over 50 years ago in Bonita, California. After a stint in Vietnam, a career as a minister, and an amateur radio journalist for CQ Magazine focused on VHF and above, Joe, is now the director of religious education at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.  Both he and his wife, Carol, are active ham radio operators. N6CL has always been active in amateur radio emergency services, including at the site of the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. N6CL is my QSO Today.

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Joe’s links:

• QRZ
• QCWA
• Twitter
• Facebook
• The West Point Center for Oral History - Joe Lynch
• Joe received the Central States VHF Society Wilson Award in 2016

Current status: Director of Religious Education at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York

Hometown: Bonita, California

First License: 1961, Novice, Age 13, WB6PDE

People:

• XYL: Carol,  first callsign: K5CPZ, now W6CL
• Mentor: Earl Wiederhold,  K6SMT for Novice License
• Bernie Bernes W6BIG - gave first radio
• First contact: WB6OTC in El Cajon, California
• Dick Ross, K2MGA
• Bill Or, W6SAI
• Rich Moseson, W2VU, Editor, CQ Magazine
• Arnie Coro, CO2KK, Radio Havana, Cuba
• Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR, pioneer in SDR transceiver hardware and founder of FlexRadio

First Rig:

• Army Surplus Receiver
• 6L6 novice transmitter
• Folded dipole 80 Meters
• Navy Surplus TCS-6 Radio - Transceiver, 80 meters AM

Current rig:

• Icom IC 7300 HF Transceiver
• Yaesu FT-736r HF Transceiver

Kitchen home station:

• Elecraft K3 HF Transceiver
• KPA 5000 amplifier

Magazines:

• CQ Amateur Radio
• CQ VHF Magazine
• VHF and Above Journal
• The Spectrum Monitor

South Bay Amateur Radio Society, Chula Vista

ARES Emergency Coordinator

Emergency Operations Center, National City, California

Johnson Viking Ranger

US Navy Apprentice Electronic Mechanic

Army MARS

North Island Naval Air Station, Point Loma

VHF Rover

Radio Havana

ARRIS - Amateur Radio aboard the International Space Station

STEM - Science Technology Engineering and Math.

Oklahoma City bombing of the Federal Building, April 1995

Oklahoma Section Manager

WEB SDR - internet interface to SDR receivers around the World.

Daytime Texas Traffic Net

West Point Amateur Radio Club Station - W2GKY

Greatest challenge facing amateur radio now: How to make amateur radio attractive to millennials and generation Z.

Maker Movement

Excited by: Advances in technology - SDR

Flexradio 500 HF Transceiver

FT8 Digital Mode

WSPRnet

Sotabeams WSPRlite - antenna tester and WSPR beacon

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