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Thanks for visiting the K4XB page.

Thanks for visiting my page! Hopefully this means we've made contact over one of the various forms of amateur radio. I usually go by Tommy and I live in southern Greenville County in SC with my lovely wife and our wonderful dogs. Currently, I am using an Icom IC-7300 for HF (although if our contact is via FT8 it may be my uBITX, which I've had a blast assembling and modifying), an Icom IC-2820H and an Icom-3200A at home. For mobile, I use an Icom ID-5100 for UHF/VHF/DSTAR and a Kenwood TS-480 into a hamstick type antenna for HF, and an Icom ID-51 HT for portable and DVMega use. Just recently installed the HF mobile and have enjoyed it thus far. My base station UHF/VHF antennas are a dual bander mounted on a mast over the garage and a dual-band Arrow type antenna installed inside the attic for a backup/severe weather antenna. My main base station HF antenna is an EFHW-8010. I also have an EFHW-4010 'pointed' in the oposite directions of the EFHW-8010. I can usually ...