N4ON -
Active Ham Radio Operator
"Curt"
GPS Location:
Latitude: 37.2759 Longitude: -77.379
Grid: FM17hg
email n4on: n4on@wcast.info
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website: www.wcast.info/3
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N4ON Summer EVENTS
August 2024
Rural Social Media
1916-2016
Rockingham County
Fair 2024
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N4ON Fall EVENTS
September 2024
Antique Field Day of the Past
Amelia, Virginia
Rural Social Media
1946-2016
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N4ON Ongoing EVENTS
TBA
Introduction to Emergency Communications
Colonial Heights, Va.
Crow Caws in the Heights
The Crows Next Gathering
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N4ON Pending EVENTS
Texting Music - Morse Code
Introduction Class
TBA
Click Here for Details
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Example of ARES being prepared.
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Doubletalk
Simplex Repeater
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Currant Station
Equipment
Fixed Station: Kenwood TS-480-HX HF Radio
Running 200 Watts
Antenna: End Fed Long Wire
Portable Station: Xiegu G90 HF Radio
Running 20 Watts
Antenna: Varies Depending on Location
Operating Portable:
Great
Falls, MT Denali
National Park Alaska
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Licensed since 1972, Amateur Radio can be divided into
3 phases of my life.
Phase Three - Since retiring from the telecommunications industry in 2009.
Phase Two - The Career/Family Years 1972-2009
Phase One - The Learning Years 1966-1985
My first novice receiver, a Lafayette HA-600A dated Christmas Day 1971.
First licensed in 1972 as
WN4CDF, then WA4CDF using a Heathkit DX60B transmitter and an end fed long
wire antenna.
Within one year I earned Extra Class, N4ON, and my commercial telegraph license
with endorsements.
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Special Links
QRZ.COM
ARRL.ORG
Visit Curtis and ALL the Family
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Special Interest
Petersburg Museum of Technology
Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Museum
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About Operator - N4ON
Retired with forty years service in the telecommunications field.
From switchboard operator cord boards to optic fiber, I have seen it all.
Now I give tours at the Virginia Telephone Museum in Richmond,
Virginia and
The Petersburg Virginia Museum of Technology as well as travel on speaking
tours.
Favorite Quote: "As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by an invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously." Benjamin Franklin, inventor of the storage cell battery.
Favorite Invention: Electromagnet, the first practical application of electrical current.
Favorite Inventor: Joseph Henry who used a
battery, an electromagnet with a mechanical striker and bell (ie. door bell) and
sent the first communication signal over a wire a distance of one mile,
never to patent his device allowing Samuel Morse to develop a code for
communicating the English language that begin the information age.
Joseph Henry, Physicist, First Secretary/Director of the Smithsonian Institution
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Ham Radio Operator "n4on" in three phases of my life: www.wcast.info/3
Curtis Anderson at The
Petersburg Museum of Technology in Petersburg, Virginia
Curtis at the Railway Mail
Service Library in Boyce, Virginia inside the train depot at the console.
Copyright © 2001, 2013
www.curtis.anderson.name All
rights reserved.
Copyright © 2006, 2013
www.wcast.info - All rights reserved.
Disclaimer.
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Recent Expeditions and Adventures
Recently Operated In Houston, Texas February 2015
Morse Day Celebration in Boyce - Winchester, Virginia - April 26, 2014
Camping & Ham Radio trip to Alaska May 1-10, 2014
Eldorado National Forest portable & camping at Lovers Leap June 1-2, 2013
April 26-27, 2013 portable in Boyce, Virginia
Ham Event in Boyce, Virginia on Oct. 5, 2013
Winter Adventure Trip 2013-2014 Northwest USA
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Quick Reviews
G5RV jr Antenna - a quick review
Mobile Antenna: Icon IC-7000 and AH-4 Tuner with homebrew short mobile long wire
Portable Antenna: AlexLoop QRP Antenna Test and Review