Call Sign – K9QW (Formerly KC9ZQW)

About Me

I first got my amateur radio license in 2013 while a member of the Bradley University Amateur Radio Club (BUARC) in Peoria, IL.

While a member of BUARC, I was active in HF contesting and growing the club. I also helped organize a few club VHF fox hunts and antenna games.

Since I graduated, I have been less active on HF due to space limitation for antennas. I have been experimenting with APRS on VHF building a Raspberry Pi breakout to interface with my Baofeng and older Icom radios. I also have been exploring SDRs with general receiving, digital mode spotting, and running a 978/1090MHz ADS-B feeder.

Recently, I have been trying QRP FT8 on my (tr)uSDX with improvised antennas.

Station

VHF/UHF

  • Icom IC-3200A 25W Mobile VHF/UHF
    • Dedicated for APRS
  • Icom IC-2400A 40W Mobile VHF/UHF
    • Home VHF/UHF Base Station
  • Baofeng UV-5RA and BF-F8HP HTs
  • Various Magnetic-Mount Vertical Antenna

HF

  • (tr)uSDX QRP Transceiver
  • MLA-30+ RX Loop Antenna
  • QRPGuys Portable No-Tune End Fed Half Wave Antenna

SDR Receivers

  • SDRplay RSP1A
  • Various RTL-SDRs