My former calls are: KE6UP (1982-1997) also operating portable as /DU1, /4F1, and /DU6, KH6HNZ (1970-1975) while based at US Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Pt, Hawaii, including aeromobile from SE Asia and other Pacific locations and portable operations from Cubi Pt. P.I. (DU3); Marcus Isld (KA6); Iwo Jima Isld (KA6); Wake (KW6); Palau, Yap, Ulithi, (KC6); Kwajalein, Majuro, (KX6); Guam, Saipan (KG6); Kure (KH7); Midway (KM6); Samoa (KS6); Johnson (KJ6). Aeromobile operation was from a USCG C-130 while enroute to these locations as well as in International waters off the coasts of Viet-Nam, Thailand, Cambodia, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea. While based at Elizabeth City, N.C., (1967-1970) I operated as WA0TBU/4 and as aeromobile in the North Atlantic waters off Greenland, Canada, and Iceland; European waters off Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, France, and Spain, and in the Caribbean area, and as KL7GAC (1964-67) based at Annette Island, also operating from Kodiak Isld, Sitka, and Juneau. In those days you were allowed to have a "home call" (WA0TBU from St. Louis, Mo.) and a "Secondary Station" call (my callsigns from military addresses in Alaska and Hawaii). My last Coast Guard duty station was Glenview NAS, Chicago, Ill, where I traded WA0TBU for KC9DA. After retiring from Coast Guard Aviation with over 25 years of service I moved to Southern California and traded KC9DA for KE6UP. I never liked the 2 by 2 calls and so traded KE6UP for K6ACZ. I am active on the HF bands and operate the CQWWDX Contest from the Philippines about every two years. While in California I also tried to find a more "rare" California county for the CA QSO Party (CQP) from time to time. HOA antenna restrictions kept me in the little pistol category. I have operated the CQP from Imperial and Tulare counties as well as my home county of Orange. In California I worked as an engineer for McDonnell-Douglas/Boeing for 15 years then took an early retirement and moved to the suburbs of Las Vegas where I could put up a tower and beam where I can hear better and put out a bigger signal. I work the major contests from home and put Clark County, NV, on the air for the 7QP.
73 and Good DX!, Alan
United States Coast Guard
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
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Licensed since 1959.
New address as of 1 JULY 2006: PO BOX 90371 HENDERSON, NV 89009-0371. Due to the closing of the Mail Box Etc mail center that was my former CBA any mail sent to the old Boulder Hwy address will be returned to the sender. I apologize for this but it is out of my control.
