KO6IUE

Nice to make contact with you.

I obtained my Technician and General Licenses in July 2025 so I’m new to amateur radio.

QTH Davis, CA Maiden head CM98dn ITU 6 CQZ 3

My current setup:

HF Transceiver Hermes Lite 2

A low-cost direct down/up conversion software defined amateur radio which is entirely open source and open hardware

Software piHPSDR

piHPSDR is an open-source program that operates my Hermes Lite 2 transciever; it’s well-written, easy-to-use, and fully-featured.

Amplifier 60dbm.com 100W Neptune

An outstanding switching amplifier built in Ukraine. I was so happy with the purchase my next project is to use their RF sampler to setup Pure Signal (adaptive digital predistortion) with the Neptune.

Antenna MyAntennas.com EFHW 4010-P

A tuned, portable, end-fed halfwave antenna the covers 40/20/15/10 meters deployed in a sloping configuration around 7 meters up a tree in my backyard.

Power Bioenno Power 12V 6Ah LiFePO4

powers my setup when mobile

Logger QLog

A fork of Thomas Gatzweiler’s open-source logger.

Network Analyzer NanoVNA

An open source, open hardware handheld vector network analyzer (VNA)

I log all contacts on QRZ, Clublog, and LoTW. Thanks to everyone who confirmed their contacts with me.

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