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Newly licensed General via NARS 2022 exam class, I upgraded to Extra with the help of the NARS Extra exam class in April 2023. I operate mostly HF SSB. At my QTH my main rig is a Hermes Lite 2 SDR. When I need more power, I use a ICOM 746PRO with IC-2KL amplifier. When I'm not on the air with my voice, I use a Zachtek WSRP transmitter beacon to study weak signal propagation. Portable I use Xiegu X6100 for HF, and Baofeng or Quansheng HT for UHF/VHF. Antennas: - homebrewed fan dipole for 80-40-20-17-15-10 meters. - 160-meter center-fed doublet - 3-element beam for 10-meters (Sirio SY-27) - UHF/VHF vertical (Comet GP9) I'm a member of the MakeIt Labs makerspace in Nashua, NH where we maintain a modest club ham shack, which I typically use on Sunday evenings for getting on the NARS nets. 73 -Mike Swatko W1TKO, Wilton New Hampshire

Website: https://www.qrz.com/db/w1tko

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