K6IAA - Don

Thanks for looking me up.

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I was born in San Gabriel, Ca. in 1939. My first interest in radio began at 12 years of age when I saw my first crystal radio set. I was fascinated. I built several crystal sets as a kid. I spent many nights laying in bed listening to KFI in Los Angeles. I started reading Popular Electronics and a few other electronic magazines of that era and became more and more interested in electronics.

I served in the US Navy for 4 years as a shipboard electrician. After the service stint, I was working at Douglas Aircraft (later to become McDonnell Douglas, and then Boeing). In 1973 I got my Novice License (5 WPM CW) and did the Novice 40 and 80 meter CW for a year and a half. I built my code speed up to 15 WPM so I could pass the 13 WPM requirement for General. In 1974 I took a test at the Los Angeles Federal Building FCC Office and upgraded to General.

My call signs have been WN6DWN, WB6DWN and WB5ZNA, KC6TMQ and is now K6IAA. I enjoy 2 Meter and 440 MHz FM, and HF bands (10 through 80 meters) Single Sideband Voice, Morse Code & Digital modes, especially PSK.

Check out my personal web site : http://www.donaldschwab.com

Nothing fancy, just some Nostalgia and things I like.

MY current station

My favorite digital mode is PSK-31 using my LapTop computer, an IC-718 Transceiver with a SignalLink sound card interface with FLDigi software.

MEMBERSHIPS: ARRL OMISS SKCC LWARC QRZ eQSL

For those of you with older call books or Ham Call CDs, this call (K6IAA) used to belong to Hiroshi Kawaguchi and was was re-assigned in May 2011.

I eQSL 100 %, or Direct (Paper) if preferred (no sase or postage required).

SWL requests for QLS cards are welcome. Send request to my email address: k6iaa@arrl.net

I enjoy long "rag-chewwing" chats with other hams, more than just quick exchanges of information. Short exchanges are ok for contests, but nice conversations and sharing of iteas is much more rewarding.

OMISS # 7391

Please check-out Old Man International Sideband Society -(OMISS) at www.omiss.net for Info and Net Schedules. OMISS is a WAS Net and meets daily at different times and frequencies. You will meet a great bunch of Amateur Radio Operators.

OMISS OPERATES ON THE FOLLOWING FREQUENCIES AND TIMES, PLUS OR MINUS QRM AND PROPAGATION:

* And Monday if it is a Legal Holiday, plus New Years Day, 4th of July, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

**The Winter schedule will begin the last week-end in October and complete the 1st week-end in April.

Days and times are in UTC. Nets that are Friday night local are displayed as Sat UTC.

Check out this link for Solar Activity http://www.solarham.com/

My personal web site is : http://www.donaldschwab.com Check it out. Nothing fancy, just a lot of nostalgia and things I like

(and some pretty cool links).

Laguna Woods Amareur Radio Club site is : http://www.lagunawoodsvillage.com/section.cfm?id=163

NOW LET'S PLAY RADIO !!!

Links for Fellow Sun Spot Wordhippers:

Latest Space Weather Data: http://sidc.oma.be/LatestSWData/LatestSWData.php

Latest Solar Events: http://www.lmsal.com/solarsoft/latest_events/

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