N4ON -
Active Ham Radio Operator
"Curt"
GPS Location:
Latitude: 37.2759 Longitude: -77.379
Grid: FM17hg
email n4on:n4on@wcast.info
website:www.wcast.info/3
Currant Station Equipment
Radio: Kenwood TS-480 HX Running 200 Watts
Antenna: G5RV Jr. Multi-Band HF Dipole
Operating Portable: Great
Falls, MT Denali
National Park Alaska
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 endearments.
Special Links
QRZ.COM
ARRL.ORG
GPS Grid Locator
Visit
Curtis and ALL the Family
Special Interest
Virginia
Telephone Museum
Petersburg
Museum of Technology
Bugbook
Historical Microcomputer Museum
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
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.
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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
2015
Winter Adventure - ABORTED - due to family matters needing attention
Camping and Ham Radio Portable / Mobile
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
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