The latest addition to the collection.  An XTS5000R VHF P25 ready!

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I was active in Field Day 2016 class 1B(1C), made 730 Q's, hope you were in the log! #1 out of ALL in 1B1C (1B commercial power) category!!  9th rank out of 59 in Missouri sorted by QSOs.

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The radio desk (picture is now outdated)

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444.525+ 141.3 tone is on air at a lower height.  Check it out if you're in or around the Wright City, Warrenton, Truesdale, Foristell, or Wentzville areas.

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Member of the Rivers Bend Radio Club (K0RBR), Missouri DX/Contest Club, the Y.A.C.H.T (#92), and The Society of Midwest Contesters. I started with a Technician license in July 2012 with my original call KDØSJV, then I got my General license in July 2013, and I got my Extra class license with my new call, ADØJA, in May 2014. I enjoy making local 2m, 1.25m, and 70cm QSOs, as well as working distant repeaters over tropospheric ducting, and also contesting on the HF bands. I am active on JT65, JT9, and RTTY digital modes on HF.

I have created a website that lists repeater info for the St. Louis, MO area as well as listing all the repeater councils in the US: http://AD0JA.tk  Also, I am the administrator on http://www.repeaterbook.comfor the repeater listings in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana.  I also am in the process of working on repeater project with a few other hams in the area, hopefully we'll have something going by the end of 2016.  Check out the MIARC page for more info.

When I'm not on the radio, I participate in FIRST Robotics Competition with my team #1094 (http://rivercityrobots.org)(http://frc1094.org)   Some pictures from competitions 1094 has attended can be found here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/103113412@N04/sets

For 2m/440, my Kenwood TMV71a is connected to a Diamond X3200a antenna and a Motorola MCS2000 mid-power UHF connected to a Diamond X50a.  For 220 the Icom IC38a is connected to a 7-element 220 yagi.  Usually, these radios are monitoring: 146.520, 145.410-, 145.190, 224.660-, 442.875+, and 444.275+ as well as some others

My HF Base station is a Kenwood TS140s with a Rigblaster Plus (for digital modes) connected to an 80m dipole.

I also work DX stations from the RemoteHamRadio stations.  I provide eQSL and LoTW confirmations for all QSOs made using these stations.

OMISS #9305

Member #109 on #HamTwitNet and 100 Watts and a Wire ID #574

Working Equipment: (I give up, too much stuff to list plus bunch of parts stuff/junk).

VHF/UHF Base/Mobile Radios: Kenwood TM-V71A, Pace Communicator II, Yaesu FT-2700RH, Yaesu FT-2900R, Icom IC-38a(220Mhz), and a bunch of Motorola Maxtrac/Radius/GM300 radios, Kenwood TK-730H/830H, bunch of MCS2000s, CDM1550LS+ 220.

VHF/UHF HTs: three Kenwood TH-F6As, Radioshack HTX202 and HTX404, Alinco DJ-191, Icom ID-51a PLUS,  Motorola MT2k, MTS2k, HT1k, ASTRO Saber, Kenwood TK-250G, Motorola XTS5000R VHF, TK-270, Vertex VX10 VHF

HF Radios: Kenwood TS140s

Motorola R2410A Service Monitor

Scanners: Uniden BC245xlt  (analog FM only).  

Also two  RTL-SDRs  are used for monitoring Project 25 trunked systems (like MOSWIN in Missouri)...The software used with the RTL-SDRs is Unitrunker (for decoding the trunking control channel) and DSD+  (for decoding the voice channel). DSDplus can decode P25 Phase I, DMR, and NXDN voice as well as DSTAR and X2-TDMA data.  VB-Audio cable is used for routing the P25 voice channel audio from Unitrunker to DSD+.

 

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