WA7KPK
L. Creede Lambard
1515 N. 150th St.
Shoreline, WA 98133
47.73757° North, 122.33913° West (Grid square CN87tr)WAS, WAC, RCC, CPC 25 WPM. Ten-Ten International (currently inactive). Licensed since 1968.
I won my section in the 1979 Phone Sweepstakes, but I cheated by living in Montana at the time – a very poopular section. (I got a Clean Sweep out of it!)
These days I mostly operate 2m and 70cm FM but am working on getting back onto HF, and maybe if I'm lucky I'll be able to do some fun things like meteor scatter and EME as well. Click here to see a (non-exhaustive) list of repeaters local to the Seattle area. You can often find me on the PSRG repeater (WW7PSR, 146.96, minus offset, 103.5 tone) or on the Woodinville repeater (K6RFK, 147.34, plus offset, no tone).Equipment
Yaesu FT-897, pre-D model with DSP installed but no 60-meter capability as far as I can tell. (That's OK, I wasn't planning on using 60 meters anyway.)
Quansheng TG-UV2, a nifty little dual band handheld. Cheap too (dollar-wise, not construction-wise). I carry it with me just about everywhere I go.
Realistic HTX-202, Radio Shack's Icom-via-Maxon entry into the 2 meter handheld sweepstakes. Shaped like a brick and about as solid. It doesn't have a battery at the moment so I use it as a base station to monitor my favorite repeaters (above).Antennas
KB9VBR 2 Meter J-Pole. The venerable "copper cactus". About as solid an antenna as anyone makes. Works in portions of the 440 band too.
Homebrewed 5 element 2 meter quad built from plans in an issue of QST about 16 years ago. I built one of these right after the article came out, and it was a fantastic antenna. Under construction.
A small generic whip for the handheld. I know, not terribly exciting.
A TV twin lead J-pole for the HTX-202. Just until its BNC-to-UHF adapter gets delivered.
An 8-element 2-meter quagi for working 2-meter CW, digital and the like. Under contemplation.
A 1-wavelength 80 meter loop. I have the room for it if I can figure out how to get it up in the air. Also, I need to figure out where the tuner and ladder line I packed away two moves ago are out in the garage. Under contemplation.
A 40-meter vertical that will probably be tunable on the higher bands through 10 meters as well. I might build this and attach it to one of the supports for the loop. Under contemplation.