Welcome to WB5GMK's DX Home Page:
INTRODUCTION
An avid SWL since age 10. I became WN5GMK in 1972, burning up the
novice bands with a Hallicrafters SX-99 Receiver and a homebrew 6146
transmitter. Later a Eico 723 and then a Hallicrafters HT-40 transmitter
were to occupy the novice station.
CW proficiency and operating skills honed, the upgrade to Advanced
came two years later at the OKC Federal building. Now the SWAN 350
could have a microphone. Later the station would sport a Yaseau
FT-101B. It went everywhere, mobile too, but you didn't talk to long
with the engine off. Then the first new rig was purchased, the classic
R-4C,T-4XC Drake Twins. The mobile became a Kenwood TS-120SE.
Later other Kenwoods would adorn the desktop. A TS-520SE with DG-5
chased many pileups and ragchews from 160 to 10 meters. Then a 530,
820 w/ remote VFO, 830 and a TS-130 became the mainstay transceivers.
Also active on 2 meters, first with a SBE-144 10 channel 10 w rig,
then a Motorola taxicab radio, followed by a Kenwood TS-700A which gave way
to present, an ICOM IC-229H, a Motorola MAXAR 70 and 2 Yaseau FT-2200's.
New modes of the KAM added more fun in 1993. But, you may still find
Mike twirling the knobs of one of the Hallicrafters R-274R, or Westinghouse
RBM receivers which still give the ham shack a warm glow.
