ZACH KC9CLR

I HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS NEW SITE! 

 A LITTLE ABOUT MY SELF      

 THIS SITE WAS STARTED ON NOVEMBER 25th 2003 AND HAS HAD WELL OVER 1400 VISITORS SINCE IT STARTED. THIS SITE HAS BEEN GROWING BIGGER EVER SINCE IT HAS STARTED. NEW PAGES ALWAYS BEING ADDED AND NOW, WE HAVE THIS SITE UPDATED AT LEAST 2 TIMES A DAY! THIS SITE IS NOW EVEN UPDATED ON THE WEEKENDS. THIS SITE NOW HAS NEWS YOU CAN'T FIND ANYWERE ELSE! SO VISIT OFTEN AND TELL YOUR FREINDS AND FAMILY ABOUT THIS SITE. AND NOW, HERES MY STORY... INCASE YOU DON'T KNOW BUT KC9CLR IS MY FCC HAM RADIO CALL SIGN. I AM CURRENTLY A GENERAL CLASS OPERATOR. MY REAL NAME IS ZACH DEMPSEY AND MY QTH IS IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS EN51. I AM 17 YEARS OLD AND HAVE BEEN A HAM RADIO OPERATOR SINCE I WAS 15. WELL, IT ALL STARTED DURING THE SUMMER OF 2002 AND I WAS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO DO THAT SUMMER SO I STUMBLED ACROSS A C. CRANE MAGAZINE AND SAW A SHORT WAVE RADIO IN IT AND WONDERED WHAT IN THE WORLD IS A SHORT WAVE RADIO. SO I READ ABOUT IT AND LEARNED THAT I COULD LISTEN TO BROADCASTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. I QUICKLY JUMPED TO THE IDEA THAT THIS MAY BE FOR ME! THAT WEEK I WAS TALKING WITH MY GRANDMA AND I BROUGHT UP THE IDEA OF GETTING A SHORT WAVE RECEIVER AND SHE THOUGHT IT WAS A FANTASTIC IDEA. LATER THAT DAY WE WENT TO RADIO SHACK AND BOUGHT MY FIRST SHORT WAVE RADIO. THAT DAY I GOT IT HOME AND POWERED IT UP AND I LISTENED TO SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, RUSSIA, AND SOME OF THE SOUTHERN STATIONS FROM AMERICA. IMMEDIATELY I KNEW THIS IS DEFIANTLY FOR ME!  AT FIRST I LOOKED AT THE DIGITAL DISPLAY AND DID NOT HAVE A CLUE OF WHAT ANY OF THE FREQUENCY DISPLAY MEANT.  BUT THEN I GOT SOME BOOKS ON HAM RADIO AND SHORT WAVE AND LEARNED ABOUT PROPAGATION, FREQUENCIES, RECEIVERS, TRANSMITTERS, ANTENNAS AND SO MUCH MORE. THAT NEXT MONTH I GOT A 29 TO 512 MHz FM SCANNER AND STARTED LISTENING TO THE POLICE, FIRE, MEDICAL AND THEN ONE NIGHT I STUMBLED ACROSS TWO GUYS TALKING BACK AND FORTH AND HAVING A CASUAL CONVERSATION AND THEN THEY SAID SOME WEIRD SOUNDING LETTERS AND NUMBERS AND LEARNED THAT THEY WERE HAMS. THAT WEEK I THOUGHT MAYBE I COULD BECOME A HAM RADIO OPERATOR. ONE NIGHT I WENT ON LINE AND DID A YAHOO SEARCH FOR HAM RADIO AND DISCOVERED THE ARRL AND THEY INSTRUCTED ME TO GET A STUDY BOOK AND STUDY FOR THE FCC EXAM SO I COULD GET MY HAM RADIO LICENSE. DURING LATE JULY AND ALL OF AUGUST I GOT DOWN TO STUDYING FOR MY TEST. ON SEPTEMBER 17th I TOOK MY TECHNICIAN EXAM AND PASSED! TWO WEEKS LATER I GOT MY CALL SIGN (KC9CLR). ON OCTOBER 4th 2002 AT 9:17am I HAD MY FIRST QSO WITH MY BRAND NEW RADIO SHACK HTX-252  25 WATT 2 METER RADIO.  SO FAR I HAVE HAD 6 RADIO'S ALL YASEU'S BUT, NONE COULD COMPARE TO MY HTX-252. CURRENTLY I HAVE A TS-820 AND STILL THE HTX-252. I AM CURRENTLY A PROUD MEMBER OF THE FOX RIVER RADIO LEAGUE WWW.FRRL.ORG AND KENDALL COUNTY ARES. DURING THE SUMMER OF 2003 I GOT A JOB FOR A RADIO STATION IN PLANO, ILLINOIS WSPY AM 1480, FM 107.1, AND TV 30. I AM CURRENTLY A BOARD OPERATOR AND I OCCASIONALLY HELP THE ENGINEER ON CERTAIN PROJECTS. THIS WINTER OF 2004 I GOT INTO SATELLITE RECEIVING, I STARTED OUT WITH A DIGITAL KU-BAND SYSTEM BUT NOW I AM HAVING ALLOT OF FUN WITH DIGITAL AND ANALOG C-BAND SATELLITE RECEIVING. ON JULY 11TH 2004 I GOT MY GENERAL CLASS LICENSE, I DECIDED TO KEEP MY CALL SIGN KC9CLR. I CURRENTLY AM USING A KENWOOD TS-820 200 WATTS ON HF 160-10 METERS. ALL ANTENNAS ARE UP NOW AND EVERY THING IS WORKING FINE. I AM USING A MULTI-BAND DIPOLE 66 FT 6-80 METER AND A BIG HUGE 480 FOOT DIPOLE 35 FEET OFF THE GROUND ON 4 ACRES OF LAND FOR 160 AND 80 METERS. THANK YOU FOR READING THIS AND RECOMMEND YOUR FRIENDS AND FELLOW HAMS TO VISIT THIS SITE. 

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Yours truly at the FRRL 2003 field day operating 6 meter side band!!!

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