About Me

Airline Pilot flying the Boeing 767-300 worldwide. Former Regional Airline Pilot flying the Embraer 175 regional jet and the Saab 340B turboprop. Corporate, Charter and Medivac Pilot flying a the King Air 200 and 350. Retired Law Enforcement (25 years); former SWAT Team Leader, Detective, Mounted Division and District Commander (Captain). United States Marine Corps veteran; Motor Transport Company, 2nd Maintenance Btn, 2nd FSSG. I have a “hobby farm” with Quarter Horses, Dogs (Beagles/Catahoulas/Heelers/German Shepards), Chickens and Turkeys. Extra Class, Licensed since 1994. XYL General Class, KF5EQH Licensed since 2010.

Modes/Bands: WiresX, DMR, SSB, AM, FM, CW, FT8, JT65, JT9, H4FSK, WSPR-2 and PSK31 modes. 80m(3.5Mhz) ————– > 70cm(440Mhz)

Main Station Radios: Yaesu FTDX-3000, Yaesu FT-950, Yaesu FT-450D, Yaseu FT-726R, Yaseu FTM-300DR, Yaesu FTM 7250, Yaesu FTM 3207DR

Mobile Radios: Yaesu FT-300DR, Yaesu FTM 3200DR, Yaesu FTM 3207DR

Handheld Radios: Yaesu FT-3DR, Yaseu FT-70D, Yaesu FT-250, Yaesu VXA-220, Aliunce HD1, Alinco DJ-MD5, Anytone UV-878, Wouxun KG-UV6D, 4 Baofeng BF-888S, and Pofung UV-82

Portable Station: Yaseu FT-2900R, Alinco DX-SR8 and AEA PK-88 TNC

Backpack Radio: Yaesu FT-818, LDG Z-817, Kantronics KPC 3+, Xiegu G90, QCX+

Keys: Bengali Simplex Pro, Vibroplex Code Warrior Jr, MFJ- 564 paddle and numerous straight keys to include the J-38!

Mic: Heil PR 781

WiresX: Yaesu FTM-300DR, Yaseu HRI-200

DMR: DVMega, OpenSpot3 and several MMDVM rpi zeroes

APRS: APRS Digi N5YHM-1 Yaesu FTM-2980 with Kantronics KPC3+ iGate N5YHM-10

WSPR Beacon: TAPR 40m Transmitter and/or ZackTek 20m/40m Desktop Transmitter

Packet: Packet Digi Yaesu FTM-2980 with Kantronics KPC3

Amplifiers: Ameritron AL-80B and Ameritron AL-811

Antennae: Hexbeam 20m-6m @ 45', 80m-6m ZS6BKW @ 45', 40m-10m OCFD @ 35', 10m dipole @ 20', 10-12m vertical @ 30', 6m dipole @ 25', 2m/440cm GP-3 @ 35'

Coax: Times Microwave LMR-400

Towers: Rohn 25 -30' free standing and Rohn 25 40' tilt over

Power: MFJ-4225MV, Pyramid PSV-300, Astron RS-35M with; solar, battery and 1200w inverter genset backup systems

Equipment: MFJ Versa Tuner V, Tektronix 455, MFJ-259B antenna analyzer, MFJ-949E Tuner II, MFJ-949B Tuner II, MFJ-891 HF meter, MFJ812B VHF meter, Yaesu SCU-17, SignaLink USB.

Test Equipment: Analog~Instek GDS-6112MFJ, Tektronix 455, Tektronix 2215: Digital~Hantek DSO5072P, Rigol DS1202. Rigol DSA 750 Spectrum Analyzer, MFJ-259B antenna analyzer, RigExpert AA-55

Computers: HP Z440 {main computer} 16g ram running Ubuntu Mate, HP dc5700 {mainradio computer} 8g ram with SSDs running Linux Mint, HP dc5800 8g ram running Ubuntu Mate, HP Elite 8200 {web development} 16g ram running Windows 10 Pro

Servers: 2 Dell PowerEdge 710s 96g ram running Ubuntu and Windows Server 2019, HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 64g ram running various VMs

Laptops: HP notebook 32g ram running 64bit Windows 11, MacBook Air 8g ram running Mac Catalina, ASUS ChromeBook 8g ram running Chrome 80, and numerous raspberrypis

Software: DXLab Suite and CQRLog. Windows 10/Chrome, using Sublime editor, for web developement

Stratum 1 Time Server: RaspberryPi connected to the GNSS satelite system, time accurate within a couple of microseconds

NetWork Storage: 2 Synology 918+, each with 16g ram, RAID 5 with 40 terabytes of storage

CLUBs: SSB/ OMISS #8503, YLISSB #16761 and 10-10 #77044 Digital/ FT8 #13110, DMC #06716, EPC #22638, 070 #1759 NAQCC #10505, SKCC #23271 Other/ Ham Radio Nation #14641, Echolink #451900 and #983685 L, SWARL #WA5062SWL

TGIF: TGIF TG767 ~ Airline Pilots Administrator

MARS: Navy-Marine Corps Auxiliary Radio Station NNN0FKT

ARRL VE: Extra Class Volunteer Examiner

Weather Station: I run a Ambient Weather station in Abita Springs, LA Click here

ADSb Receiver: Receiver #82009 for FlightAware running PiAware (Debian Package Add-on) 6.1 on a Raspberry Pi with Multilateration (MLAT) enabled. The nearest active airport is the Slidell Municipal Airport (Slidell, LA) KASD.