Welcome to the KM6OH Page

There are those who think I'm nuts for putting up this antenna array but then, to a true ham, this is a thing of beauty and elegance. These antenna allow me to talk all over the world. For the hams in the crowd, the top beam is a Cushcraft A3WS with 30 Meter kit. The bottom beam is Cushcraft A3S. The Christmas tree is for the neighbor's benefit



This is my company van. On the back you might notice a rather odd looking thing. This is my mobile HF antenna. I built it or rather re-built it (a story for another time) myself. It can be tuned from the cab of the van, to operate on all the ham bands. With this antenna I am able to talk all over the world while I am driving around. Sure makes the time go by fast on those otherwise boring drives.


This is an inside shot of the van. Under the dash, on the far left is a Kenwood TS50 HF rig. Next to it is an ICOM 2 meter/ 440 Rig. On the wood box between the seats is a bencher paddle for operating Morse code (CW). On the front of the box is a radio shack DSP unit and a contest keyer. What you can't see is that the box has two 6" speakers built into it so I can monitor H/F and UHF/VHF at the same time.




This is my radio station at the house. Boy what a mess, huh? Well yes, but again, all is very functional, I assure you. On the wall above all the radio gear are a few of the QSL cards I have gotten from different countries all over the world. I also enjoy contesting. By the way, this is a 100%
solar powered station.

When I am talking to people locally on two meters, I use the WB6TCS repeater in the Oakland hills. Although not a club as such, there is a real great group of people using the repeater. The Oakland repeater is linked, by radio, to another repeater located on top of Mt. Anthony in Northern California allowing us to talk to the folks in the Willits and Redding areas. In August the group has a campout and work party on top of the mountain. Check out the pictures provided by WA6UFS Gerry.

Alan, WA6DNR has a nice web page, check it out, he was my inspiration and prodded me into getting my own web page set up. Here are some other sites of interest :

Here are a whole pant full of pictures of the strange people who use the WB6TCS repeater.

Here are some other links that might be interesting:

Other Individual Ham Pages :

KF7VY & N7VPL Ed & Kim Mitchell's HAM RADIO ONLINE really nice page
To add your page here, drop me a note with your URL.

Organizations of interest to hams:

PACIFIC DIVISION OF THE ARRL
FCC Welcome Page
AmSoft CD-ROM Files Screen
Ham Radio Online Magazine
Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment
Amateur Radio and Electronics
APRS

Please email me with any comments at kim@knjcomputers.com
Oh well so much for hamming..... back to Kim's Page