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My Callsign is AA9DY. I am an Extra Class licensed Ham, a volunteer examiner, and current QSL Manager of KM0TO (Motorola Amateur Radio Club) in Libertyville, IL. My QSL info, as well as KM0TO, are good in QRZ.com. I started back into ham radio in late 2004, after a long hiatus. Within the past year, I have completed a few different flavors of Worked All States awards, and I am slowly working on my DXCC.
My wife, Michelle, is KC9BLP. She participated in her first radio contest in the 2006 Sweepstakes Phone Contest. She will hopefully upgrade her operating privileges to General/Extra soon, so we can start using here callsign for contesting.
Amateur Radio areas of interest to me include: Contesting, Home-Brew projects, QSL Card Collecting (paper and electronic - LoTW / eQSL ), paper chasing (Awards), and High Speed Meteor Scatter (HSMS) Communications.
I QSL via LoTW, Direct, ARRL Bureau, OMISS Bureau (info at www.OMISS.net), "AG" on eQSL, and now the 3905-Club's WM9H Bureau. I'll send you a QSL via the route it came, unless otherwise noted on QSL Card. Please QSL to me via Logbook of the world, if you can.
Rig:
- Yaesu FT-920 HF/6m Multimode Radio
Antenna(s) and Bands Operated at home:
Portable Ops:
- I've worked portable with my home station and a G5RV antenna in Jo Daviess County for the 2006 Illinois QSO Party. Read about it here.
Awards:
- WAS Mixed Mode/Band (#52,082) - granted 26-Aug-2006
- WAS on 40-meters - granted October 2006
- WAS RTTY (#507) - granted 28-FEB-2007
- WAS CW Mode - granted FEB-2008
- WAS RTTY - 40M - Have not filed yet
Modes Operated: SSB, PSK31/63, RTTY, CW, Olivia, Feld-Hell, MFSK, MT63, JT65A, JT6M & FSK441 (the last two modes for High Speed Meteor Scatter - HSMS).
Modes/activities I want to try (or get back into): Packet, APRS, amateur weather-spotting, and working the amateur satellites.
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