Welcome to my ham radio page.

I became involved in ham radio when I was a teen in the late sixties in California.

I started out as a novice with an 80 meter arc-5 transmitter (modified for crystal control) and a National NC-109 receiver. Soon thereafter I built a single tube transmitter that put out 7 watts on 40 meters. Using that transmitter, I was able to contact a ham in Connecticut - it was very exciting at the time.

I worked up to advanced class while in high school, becoming WB6FHG. I still remember the tension of taking the 13 wpm code test at the FCC office on Battery St. in San Francisco.

When I went off to college I dropped out of ham radio, to resume it thirty years later.

I mainly like older "boatanchor", especially military equipment. This is my main position, it is most of the equipment I dreamed of when I was a teen novice, WN6FHG.

QRZ entry

My late fifties CW station with HQ-170 and Johnson Navigator.

A bit of home-brew equipment

Homebrew Transmitter

Homebrew Receiver (has a simple crystal filter made from surplus ft-241 crystals).

Some notes on military surplus ft-241 crystals.

Here is some military radio equipment.

WWII Naval equipment.

GRC-109 - an exotic military field radio set.

GRC-9 - a Military Field radio at Summer Camp

ARC-5 - WWII aircraft equipment.

SCR-178 (BC-186 receiver and BC-187 transmitter) - some primitive army field gear

Some antennas for the space-challenged

A low-profile 5 band doublet in a maple tree.

A surprisingly effective 80/40 meter attic antenna

A summary of HF conditions that displays well on iphone

Some other random projects that I am involved in, including LST-325, a WWII Navy ship.

73 for now de NS1W