User data

KI5GLN

First name:

William(Bill)

Alford

Address:

370154 E 1187 Rd

OKEMAH

United States

QSL via:

eQsl, LOTW, QRZ, E-mail request, Online request

User info

When working my station on FT8 FT4 DO NOT transmit on my frequency  I am transmitting on.  Please hold your frequency.  ARE YOU CALLING ME ON FT8 AND NOT GETTING A RESPONSE?  IT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE I AM CALLING DX OR WAS CALLING SOMEONE ELSE.  IF YOU ARE ON THIS CONTINENT, YOU ARE NOT DX ! (Even on six meters.)

I MAINLY USE QRZ for QSL's.   

I upload to QRZ, LOTW, HRD, EQSL, Club Log, and a few others when logged.

I use  MLDX software to log. If you have an email listed on QRZ, I can send an email digital QSL card.  No return card is required.     I try to send back QSL cards when I receive them, but the cost limits how often I send them back.

I got my Ham Radio ticket in Sept 2019.   I got a Technician and General license on the same day.  I am a NON-MORSE Ham, but I am learning morse code very slowly, only to get the triple play award once I retire.

My wife and I are team truck drivers.   When we are on the road, I do not log contacts.  

I run REMOTE operations while I am on the road.  I use RemoteTX software through my cell phone and a Raspberry PI into my IC-7300 to still operate while driving the semi.  The new SEMI is not RF-friendly with all the computers and modules they have. You can find the remote software I use at https://www.remotetx.net/. They have the full setup there for around 85 dollars.  It is subscription-based software.

USN DAV VET.

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The Shack

RADIO ---

• ICOM  7300

AMPLIFIER ---

• ELECRAFT KPA500 WITH KAT500 ANTENNA TUNER

ANTENNAS ---

• HomeBrew 30m/40m/60m/75m/160m flat-top fan dipole at 16ft of the ground
• Zero5 160-6 43ft  Vertical Ant with 8 x 100 ft and 8 x 160 ft radials in the ground.
• CushCraft A5O5S 5 Element 6m Beam
• HEX Beam 20m-6m I built from other broken antennas.  
• Glen Martin RT-832 8" Roof Top tower
• Yeasu Rotator with Glen Martin TB-25 thrust bearing
• RC1-G Rotator Controller that will work with my remote system