{"id":857,"date":"2026-09-25T00:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wasanet.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=857"},"modified":"2026-09-25T00:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:21:06","slug":"joe-kb0vkl","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wasanet.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=857","title":{"rendered":"Joe KB0VKL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I stumbled into the WASA Net one evening shortly after upgrading to my General license. They made me feel like family, so like a family member, I moved in and just never left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My interest in radio goes back to 1970, when my dad had a Browning Golden Eagle feeding a Mosley Yagi. In 1976, I got my first radio, a Johnson white-face five-channel crystal radio. My first radio license was for 11 meters, KBTL2356.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I earned my No-Code Technician license in 1995 and was issued KB0VKL. My first ham radio was a brand-new Icom IC-706. After many years on the air, I upgraded to General on New Year\u2019s Eve 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the things I enjoy most about amateur radio is building antennas, experimenting, and trying ideas that I am told probably won\u2019t work. Sometimes being told something can\u2019t be done is all the motivation I need to find out whether I can make it work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside of radio, I spent 25 years as a roofing foreman, several years in the oil fields, and at different times ran both a pizza chain and a bar. I did whatever work was needed to put food on the table, a roof over our heads, and shoes on my children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am now retired and living at Leisure Lake Estates with my best friend and wife of 43 years and counting. We have two children, seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the greatest things radio has given me is friendship. I am still friends with people from my earliest days on 11 meters, along with many others I have never met face-to-face but still talk with regularly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am proud to be part of the WASA family and look forward to helping serve the Net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

73,
Joe Bush \u2013 KB0VKL<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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I stumbled into the WASA Net one evening shortly after upgrading to my General license. They made me feel like family, so like a family member, I moved in and just never left. My interest in radio goes back to 1970, when my dad had a Browning Golden Eagle feeding a Mosley Yagi. In 1976, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-857","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wasanet.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wasanet.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wasanet.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wasanet.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wasanet.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wasanet.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/wasanet.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/857\/revisions\/859"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wasanet.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wasanet.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}