Dave Morris Amateur Radio Station N5UP My station as WA5YWT (ca. 1976) The homemade 2nd VFO got me an audience with the president of Heath Company himself. SSTV was homemade. SB-500 10-2m transverter for working Oscar 6. Tube keyer could do over 50wpm.
3 element homebuilt 20/15m quad I built out of bamboo trees at age 16 in Athens, GA. Combined with Big Bertha (pair of 4-400As in grounded grid), it left scorch marks in the air all the way to Father Moran's shack at 9N1MM! It didn't survive the tornado. K4BGF and WB4ZWR, where are you?

The Electronic QSL Card Centre

My Ham Radio History

• 1971 - WN4WWX - Novice Class - Naperville IL, Athens GA
• 1972 - WB4WXX - Advanced Class - Athens GA (Note that the FCC made an error when upgrading the license, with the result that for several years, there were 2 hams holding the same WB4WXX call sign. We held a QSO and taped it for posterity. This is the only case we know of.)
• 1974 - WA5YWT - Extra Class - Albuquerque NM
• 1980 - NS5D - Extra Class - Allen TX, Buffalo NY, Garland TX
• 1998 - N5UP - Extra Class - Garland TX

Awards and Activities

• 40 WPM CW certificate
• WAS (Worked All States)
• WAC (Worked All Continents) - SSB Phone endorsement
• DX 1972-1975 (105 countries on 15m and 20m)
• GSN 1972-1973 (Georgia State Net) CW Traffic net
• NMN 1973-1975 (New Mexico Net) CW Traffic net - Periodically net control
• American Signaling Society 1986
• AMSAT 1973-1986 (OSCAR 6 and 7 Amateur Satellites)
• SSTV 1975-1977 (Slow Scan TV)
• Packet Radio 1983-1986
• RACES (Skywarn) Richardson, TX 1986
• RACES #580 (Skywarn) Garland, TX 1998

Magazine Articles I have authored

• "Gravity Gradient Modulation", QST, April, 1986
• The Morris DF Loop Antenna, a full-wave, vertically polarized, loop antenna for composite homebuilt aircraft
• Other things I've written

Some Interesting Links

• FCC - Federal Communications Commission, Amateur Radio Services
• Call Sign Directory from QRZ.com
• AMSAT (Amateur Satellite Corporation)
• ARRL (American Radio Relay League)
• Disaster Communications, by Mark Wood G4HLZ (Dallas RACES and also Dallas Area Red Cross DAT team member)

Random Old Photos

• My mobile hamshack
• My best friend my senior year in high school was Mike Russell, WB5CSO, shown here in a 1979 Navy photo with his mother. Now a silent key due to leukemia, he was known as an expert on the SignalOne transceiver and was responsible for the cellular network at the Olympics in Los Angeles for Motorola.
• 1989 Photo of Mike Russell
• 1986 Photo of Mike Russell
• My friend WB8JKR, Mark Graalman, who became a silent key on April 5, 2005. Mark and I held the world record for the longest 40m CW QSO by talking for 4 hours on New Year's Eve, 1972 and then repeated the feat the next year.
• Mark's current day ham shack.
• Mark's 4.5 KW Tesla coil throwing 8 foot arcs (ca. 1992)

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