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

Amplifier 60dbm.com 100W Neptune

An outstanding band switching amplifier from Ukraine

Antenna MyAntennas.com EFHW 4010-P

A tuned, portable, end-fed halfwave antenna in a slope configuration about 7 meters up a tree covering 40/20/15/10 meters

Software piHPSDR

piHPSDR is a program that operates my Hermes Lite 2 transciever. It’s well-written, fully-featured, and high quality open-source software.

Power Bioenno Power 12V 6Ah LiFePO4

powers my setup when mobile

Logger QLog

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

I log all contacts on QRZ and LoTW.

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