Tower Rebuild Pictures 02/11/06 HERE
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Information About K5MQ
My Name is Dave, located in the beautiful town of Jena Louisiana, population 2900.
Jena is the largest town for about a 30 mile radius. K5MQ is in grid square EM31WQ. I have been an amateur radio operator for about 22 years and am active on HF and 6 meters cw and ssb, psk and rtty. I am very active on 2 meter weak signal ssb and cw. My 2 meter operation is all terrestial. I am always watching for 2 meter openings via tropo, sporadic E, meteors, etc. Contact me if you would like a sked.
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The station at K5MQ:
Icom 756 Pro II
Icom 706(old one)
Ameritron AL-811H HF Amp
Icom 271-A 2 meter almode
Kenwood TR751A 2m allmode
DEMI 2 meter transverter (70 watt version)
TE systems 400 watt 2 meter amp
Henry 3002 (1500 watt) 2 meter amp.
Usually running 100 or 500 watts on HF and 400 watts on 2 meters. When the band opens on 2 meters will run the big Henry with the transverter for 1500 watts on 2 meters. Have been known to operate QRP on HF sometimes.
The antennas here are:
Alpha Delta 160/80/40 inverted vee at 70 feet
2 ele cushcraft 40-2cd for 40 meters at 67 feet
30 meter inverted vee at 50 feet
Force 12 C3e Tribander for 20-10 meters at 76 feet
M2 2m5wl 17 ele for 2 meter ssb at 83 feet
Tower 1 is 67 feet of Rohn 45 with T2X rotor
Tower 2 is 36 feet of Rohn 45 with T2X rotor (not up yet)
I am most active here on 2 meter weak signal ssb and cw. Also love to operate HF Dx'ing and contesting mostly on CW.
I have been VHF contesting from the K5QE contest site in Hemphill, Texas. Marshall has built a beautiful VHF station. Please be sure to check out the picture gallery here and on K5QE's site.
02-11-06 Thanks to N5YA, K5QE and N5KDA for the help with the tower rebuild and getting the 40 meter yagi up. Click HERE for some pictures.
Here is Pic of my daughter. 13 Years old. She took this with her cell phone camera. Click on her picture to see some music videos that she did for youtube.com
Website Updated March 21, 2008