K8OS

James, “JB”, Anderson, K8OS, will be presenting in the next QSO Today Virtual ham Expo, on August 14th and 15th  on the topic of Vertical Yagi-Uda Array using Wire Elements – Stealth HF Gain on a Budget.  I thought that it would be good to introduce the QSO Today audience to the presenters themselves.  While JB has been a ham for over 50 years, he is also an accomplished electronics engineer and a radio astronomer.  K8OS tells his ham radio story in this QSO Today.

First License:  Age 14, WN8OST  

Hometown: Toledo, OH

First Rig:
Heathkit DX-20 Transmitter
BC348 Receiver
Half Wave Dipole

Current Rig 
Yaesu FT897D
Yaesu FT201
Yaesu FT101
Yaesu FT-7

Terms
Shortwave Listening
BBC 
Boy Scouts of America
Popular Electronics Magazine
160 Meter Amateur Band
Vintage Philco 3 Tube Receiver Kit  Superregenerative 
Paper Route
Morse Code
Radio Astronomer
University of Toledo, Mathematics
University of Toledo, Physics
Pittington, Radio Astronomy
Variable Reactance Amplifier
Noise by Aldert Van Der Zeal
Cray SuperComputer
High Performance Computing
EF Johnson Radio Company
Telex Communications
Noran Instruments
Mathematical CoProcessors
FPGA – Field Programmable Gate Array
Zylinc
Dimension, Inc.
FT8 Digital Mode
ARRL Get on Digital Modes
WSJT Software
DXCC 40 Meters
Sunspot Cycle 25
Ionospheric Propagation Physics
Gray-line Propagation 
HamSCI
Full Wave Loop Antenna
Delta Loop Antenna
Vertical Yagi-Uda Array using Wire Elements – Stealth HF Gain on a Budget
Yagi-Uda Antenna Array 
D-Layer
Craig’s List
TVRO Dealership
8 foot antenna umbrella dish 
Software Defined Radio
SARA – Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers
Galactic Core
Dark Matter

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