I’m a retired middle school science, math, and STEM teacher. I started teaching in 1985 but only became interested in ham radio after my wife, Kathy KE7ZKD, got her license first to do emergency communication. I became a ham just to spend time with her and see if I could pass the tests–which I did by passing my General in 2009 and became KF7EON.

I’ve been interested in electronics and science ever since grade school, but my interest in amateur radio soared when I went to a summer ARRL Teacher Institute in 2011. After that, as a science teacher and later as a STEM teacher, I tried to expose my students to the joys of radio, electronics, Morse code and satellite tracking and communications. I passed my Extra in 2014 and in May of 2015 I received my current call sign. I retired from teaching in 2019.

I’m on the board of the Valley Radio Club in Eugene, Oregon.  I enjoy tinkering building inexpensive antennas and other electronic projects, and doing computer programming.

My contact information is current on QRZ.com

Amateur Radio Is a Hobby That Includes Many Hobbies.Here are 75:

    • Antenna building
    • Automatic location reporting (APRS)
    • Audio signal enhancing
    • Awards for Worked All States (WAS), DX Century Club (worked 100 entities–DXCC)
    • Balloon launching (w/ radio tracking)
    • Basic science
    • Battery science and management
    • Boy Scouts on the Air
    • Communicate on different bands (1.25m, 2, 6, 10, 15, 17, 20, 30, 40, 60, 80, 160)
    • Community service
    • Computer control systems for radio
    • Contesting
    • Digital communication
    • DXing (long-distance contacting)
    • DXpeditions (Operate from rare locations)
    • Earth-Moon-Earth (moon bounce) communication
    • Electronics
    • Emergency communication
    • Emergency preparation
    • Experimenting
    • Family communications
    • Fox (or bunny) hunting (direction finding)
    • Homebrew transmitters
    • Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP)
    • Islands on the Air (IOTA)
    • Kit building
    • Low Power Transmitting (QRP)
    • Marine mobile work
    • Mesh Networking
    • Mobile radio (bicycle, motorcycle, vehicle, RV, hiking)
    • Moon-bounce communication
    • Morse code communication
    • Neighborhood emergency radio
    • Net control
    • Net participation
    • Pacific Seafarers Net
    • Parks on the Air (POTA)
    • Physics of antennas
    • Physics of electronics
    • Physics of radio wave propagation
    • Physics of the sun regarding radio propagation
    • Physics of waves
    • Public service
    • Public speaking (at meetings & events)
    • QSL card collecting
    • Radio astronomy
    • Radio control
    • Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) Hunting
    • Radio repair
    • Repeater design and management
    • Radio frequency engineering
    • Satellite communication
    • Search and rescue
    • Sherriff assistance
    • Short wave listening
    • Software design for radio controls
    • Solar panel science and management
    • Space station communication
    • Slow Scan TV (SSTV)
    • Study radio spectrum
    • Summits on the Air
    • Support running & bike races
    • Technology
    • Tube radio work
    • Voice communication
    • Volunteer Examiner (VE) testing for new hams
    • Volunteering in your club
    • Weak signal propagation monitoring (WSPR)
    • Wireless internet communication 802.11
    • Worked 100 countries award (DXCC)
    • Worked all county award
    • Worked all provinces award
    • Worked all states (WAS) award
    • Young Ladies (YL’s) in ham radio groups
    • Youth mentoring

 

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