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Episode 159 - Rick Dougherty - NQ4I

When Rick Dougherty NQ4I isn’t operating single side band at 51 thousand feet in a Gulfstream jet, he may be preparing for the next big contest at this super multi-multi station in Griffin, Georgia.  A career jet pilot and ham radio contester, NQ4I shares his amateur radio story with Eric, 4Z1UG, in this QSO Today.

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First License: March 1961, Novice, WN4ARV
Later General upgrade to WA4ARV.  

Elmers:  

• Tom Newton, K4PBK
• Rex Johnson,  K4JBJ

First Rig: 

• Eico 720
• Allied Knight Kit R100 receiver

First rig upgrade after General:   

• Johnson Viking Ranger
• Hallicrafters SX101A
• Hallicrafters HT37 on SSB
• Mosley TA-36 Triband Beam

First DX contact: F9IA

Favorite operating mode: SSB and CW

Netjets - Jet leasing company

Fractional Jet  Ownership

Gulfstream G450 and G550

Rockwell Collins Business Avionics

DXpeditions mentioned in podcast: 
1973 Panama Canal KZ5
1983 4V2C Haiti at HH2MC
Bermuda

Travel Rigs: 

• Kenwood TS-820
• Butternut vertical antenna

CQ World Wide DX Contest

​“3 Point Locations” defined in the CQ WW DX Contest Rules

Rick has a  NQ4I “Super Contest Station”

Ten-Tec Orion Transceiver

NQ4I Technical Staffing

Competitor contest stations: W3LPL, K3LR, KC1XX

SO3R Station - single operator, 3 radios

Excited most by:  

• Diversity of ham radio.
• Big conventions
• Internet brought ham radio closer together

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Eico 720 Transmitter

Hallicrafters HT-37 Transmitter

Ten-Tec Orion Transceiver

NQ4I in the cockpit