NEWS UPDATE – Past couple of days, Tom KC0W has been active as KH0W/M. This is a new set up for Tom and he’s promised to send exclusive pictures of his mobile activity around the Mariana islands once the station is complete. He has been active on 20 & 17 CW so far testing out “2 foot broomstick with 17’ of wire wrapped around it”. QRX for more.
APRIL 20 DX-World recently got word from Tom KC0W that he will not be going QRT after all, but rather he’ll be QRV again by the end of April. We have more info on his plans and will only publish once Tom gives the ok to do so.
Info by Tom, KC0W (February 18, 2022)
Last month I moved into a condo and have gone QRT from all amateur radio activity. I gave all of my telescoping aluminum antennas & coax away to local fisherman so they construct HF antennas for their boats. The elements of my Yagi have now been repurposed as a line for drying clothes under the sun. After 65,000+ QSOs over the past 2.5 years it’s time to call it QUITS. I DO miss operating CW. FT8 & SSB not so much so. Thanks for all of the QSOs over the past 2+ years. Hope to QSO many of you again from Saipan someday in the future after I find that ever allusive QTH.
Hello Leonidas,
I have absolutely no idea why the post office returned the envelope to you FIVE MONTHS after you sent it to my PO Box. Something here does not make sense. I assume the QSO was for 30 meters FT8 according to my log. Please let me know if you want my DX Manager to send you a card free of charge.
Tom KH0/KC0W
Hello,
I sent the envelope with SASE on 22 Nov 2021 to
“THOMAS M CALLAS PO BOX 1058 MINNETONKA, MN 55345 USA”
and it was returned with the following label on 28 Apr 2022:
“RETURN TO SENDER
ATTEMPTED – NOT KNOWN
UNABLE TO FORWARD”
Leonidas de SV1OCA
Come on~ my friend~
de BX2AK
We shall miss you on the air Tom.
So, did you keep all your other radio gear, and just give up on all the antennas for now?
Were you told, by your HOA, that you can not have antennas, or are you just not able to get good signals in such a high-RFI environment?
(I, too, live in a horribly noisy MDU and commercial business neighborhood.)
Hope you find a great QTH soon!