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NN2X

9/28/2018

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Episode 217 - Tom Wright - NN2X

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Tom Wright, NN2X, grew up in the sixties in the foster care system.  Amateur radio provided a way out of the system and into the US Army and a career in satellite communications.  Tom loves his family, the digital modes, especially the new FT8Call, and helping kids escape poverty by training them for careers in information technology. This QSO is packed with little jewells as NN2X shares his ham radio story. ​
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QRP Labs QCX CW Transceiver
Hans Summer's, G0UPL,  Interview at YOTA 2018

Tom Wright, NN2X sites:  
Company - IT Certificates and Licensing
QRZ Page
LinkedIn
Mena Telecom (In Bahrain)
YouTube videos:  
NN2X on Financial Channel in Australia, about NewSat.
SSB Contacts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hOVg_r5hsY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Ou6CnN2cg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Ou6CnN2cg

Foster Homes

First mentor: K2JFJ Jack Jannike, Bell Labs

CB Radio

First License: 1973, Novice
Upgrade 1980: Amateur Extra

Westar,  Western Union Teleports, systems engineer

Hughes International Teleport

Meena Telecom Earth Station, Bahrain

Current Rig:
Kenwood TS-590S
4CX1500A Tetrode Power Tube
FT8CALL
Olivia Digital Mode
K4KIO Hex Beam

Kenwood TS-830 HF Transceiver

NewSat, Australia Company

Morocco Amateur Radio

Turkmenistan Amateur Radio

Moscow Amateur Radio

Alcoa in Guinea Africa

GI Bill

US National Guard

VK3MO Australia amateur station

40 meter monopole vertical

Excited by: Digital Modes and now FT8CALL
Software Defined Radio, SDR

Advice to new or returning hams: Try the digital modes and use Google Translate to speak to foreign hams in their own language

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1 Comment
Dex, ZL2DEX
9/29/2018 01:04:42 pm

Merely reading the intro gave me joy!
Though not officially a 'ward of the State', I did have a brush with it in early secondary school (Junior/High). I'm now step-Granddad to 5, the eldest 3 now 'aged out' of that system and the younger 2 with other family, so I empathize on that score - it can be a brutal upbringing!
From early Primary school I had determined that my life would be centred on Electronics, having discovered my father's WWII loot - an Army 'field-'phone' ZC1 remote set - and experimenting with it. Radio Amateur since March '67, having left school and been sidelined into the electro-mechanical telephony of the age (Radio was oversubscribed) :( ...
Battling the brutality suffered by my grandies, now on behalf of future kids, has left me bereft of the resources necessary to communicate this joy, so I revel in the vicarious glimpse of a fellow-enthusiast.
73
Dex, ZL2DEX

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