{"id":222,"date":"2025-08-06T17:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wasanet.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=222"},"modified":"2025-08-06T18:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:04:59","slug":"paul-w1pef","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wasanet.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=222","title":{"rendered":"Paul W1PEF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I was born in 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio and became interested in Ham Radio back in Parma, Ohio in the early 60\u2019s when a friend in our church youth group showed me his dormer bedroom that was filled with radio equipment.  It was fantastic; there were glowing tubes and neat sounds coming from the radio speakers. I was very excited and begged my parents to buy me a receiver kit. It wasn\u2019t a Heathkit and it was more than a 13 year old could successfully build. My dad took pity on me and had someone finish the kit but it was never a very good receiver. My parents finally purchased a Hammarlund HQ-110 receiver and Heathkit DX40 transmitter just before they retired to Tennessee in 1962.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Tennessee I lived in the small town of McKenzie where I was first licensed as a Novice. I had only two crystals so I didn\u2019t make very many contacts. My only record of my license is when I moved back to Ohio in 1964, I was given the licensed callsign of WN8MVN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1968 I married my wife, Joy, and I started my career with AT&T. I took the Technician exam in 1970. I had the license (WA8SBB) but life got in the way and the license expired. We had a daughter and relocated several times while working for the old Bell System. After almost 40 years with AT&T\/spinoffs I retired in 2008 with my wife to New Hampshire to be near our daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2015, my son-in-law got his ham license (N1ZKO) and the Ham embers reignited and I took the Technician exam again but thanks to the new FCC rules, I was granted a General license in June 2015. I also wanted to reclaim some of those past missed goals and I purchased the Elecraft K3S in kit form. After successful \u201cassembling\u201d the transceiver, I finally met my childhood goal and had my first SSB phone contact on September 27, 2015. On March 19, 2016 I took the Extra exam and passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My main station now consists of an Apache Labs software defined radio running Thetis software. I also have an SPE Expert 1.5K amplifier that feeds a couple of home-made OCF dipoles. Hope to work you soon on the WASA Net..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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73 de Paul W1PEF<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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