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Travel Alert---
W7RTX- will be traveling back and forth between Alaska and Colorado for the next two years.
I will be in Colorado June 23 2009 through July 13th before returning to Alaska for 7 weeks.
 
QSL info- Direct SASE, Bureau, eQSL and LoTW.
 
When Transmitting From Colorado: W7RTX
Grid- DM78pw                      Colorado Springs, Colorado USA
Lat. 38.930 N                       County- El Paso
Long. -104.729 W                 6,826' ASL (2080 meters)
Call Area- 0                          ITU Zone- 7             CQ Zone- 4
 
When Transmitting From Alaska: W7RTX/KL7
Grid-  BP74db                     Delta Junction, Alaska USA
Lat. 64.065 N                      Southeast Fairbanks Borough
Long. -145.726 W                1,130' ASL (353 meters)
Call Area- KL7                     ITU Zone- 1              CQ Zone- 1
 
Handle-  Dave    Age- 50    Lived in Michigan, California, Washington State, Iran, Spain, Colorado and Alaska.
Activities:
  
Best contacts recently-
JE1LET- Masa in Tokyo (thank you Masa for the very nice card)!
EA1ABT- Luis in Cantabria Spain
4U1UN- United Nations HQ
VK2UZ- Australia Andrew- card on its way! Thxs!
KH7XS- Bill, Big Island Contest Station
VY5SSB- Venezuela Alexis- big pile up!
LA5MIA- Borkenes Norway Harold
KH6CB- HI. It was hard but we did it from 9,400 feet!
AC6VV, KF6RRR and KI5TE during my Field Trip up the mountain at 9,400 feet ASL. So much fun guys! Thank you.
VE5UF- 1st out of country 50MHz contact!
W8IMS- Indianapolis Motor Speedway on 20m and 17m.
W0O- from Frankenstein, MO on Halloween!
W0JH- 33rd anniversary of the Edmond Fitzgerald.
LU1DK- Argentina
VP2E- Anguilla
P40A- Aruba
KP2M- Virgin Is.
TI5N- Costa Rica
VP9I- Bermuda
CU2A- Azores
HI3K- Dominican Republic
6Y1V- Jamaica
IR1R- Italy
PJ2T- Netherlands Antillies
YN2NB- Nicaragua
VP5H- Turks and Caicos Is.
 
 
 

The Shack:

 

Transceivers-

Kenwood TS-2000

ICOM 706MKIIG

ICOM 751A

Kenwood TM-G707

Yaesu VX-7R

President HR-2510

Alinco DR-112

 

Antennas-

G5RV 3-54MHz 102' at 25'

Buddipole 7-54MHz

       portable/configurable system

Arrow 146/440 J-Pole

Arrow 4 element 6 meter yagi

 

Mics-

Heil Goldline HC4/HC5 element,

               boom and foot switch

ICOM SM-8

Astatic 10-DA

 

Power-

Astron RS-35M 35amp metered

Pyramid 35amp metered

Alinco DM-330MV 32amp

Marine Deep Cell for portable use.

 

Join the ARRL (American Radio Relay League)...

http://www.arrl.org/

 

Funniest thing recently heard during a QSO-
 "you guys in Colorado have so much elevation, you make electrons into big round balls and roll them down the hill at us, and RF always rolls downhill a lot easier than it rolls uphill"- N7TGF Washington State.

 

 

Check it out: 

See some of my adventures in radio via video and slideshows, including field trips up to 9,400 feet with the Buddipole antenna system.

http://www.youtube.com/user/W7RTX

 

QSL cards received recently- 
JE1LET- Masa in Tokyo
VE3XN ON, Canada very nice attachment!
WB7WNF- WA Raleigh my friend from WA.
KE7NCO- NV Scotty in Sparks

K0IP- ID on 50Mhz

KB7Q- WY on 50 MHz

K5UIC- LA 50 MHz

WZ7H- my friend from Bonney Lake, WA.

W8IMS- Indy Speedway.

KL1G- Alaska

VK2UZ- Australia- Andrew

P40PW- Aruba

TI5N- Costa Rica

HI3K- Dominican Republic

IR1R- Italy

WP4EDD- Puerto Rico

EA1ABT- Spain

HI3TEJ- Dom. Republic

PJ2T- Netherland Antillies

 

  

Contact and QSL info-

 

W7RTX
5436 Spoked Wheel Dr.
Colorado Springs, CO
80923
USA

E-mail address-
 
 
 
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