W4PA

Work: Owner, VIBROPLEX® .  Visit our website www.vibroplex.com for all your CW paddle, bug, and straight key needs.  2021 is the 116th year in business for the company.   All about us:

• Vibroplex® Morse Code keys - more than 400,000 built since 1905.  We have 29 different models available today and offer parts and service on many older keys.
• Bencher® Morse Code keys, including the BY-1 iambic paddle with over 150,000 units sold.  The most popular Amateur Radio paddle ever!
• GHD and Hi-Mound Morse Code keys.  Made in Japan.  Vibroplex is the exclusive USA and Canada distributor.
• International Radio ("INRAD"® ) - aftermarket and OEM crystal filters for Amateur Radio transceivers and receivers with some 250 different models currently available for present day equipment and obsolete gear dating as far back as the 1950's.  More recently, INRAD® introduced the high-end W1 headset and a line of quality desk microphones and accessories usable with almost any transceiver.
• Par EndFedz® End Fed Half Wave, "EFHW" antennas.  Multi-band and single-band units.  These antennas can be mounted horizontally, vertically, or as a sloper.  No ground plane or counterpoise is needed.  Portable operation could not be easier.  See the hundreds of positive online reviews on www.eham.net about these great antennas.
• W7FG Vintage Manuals - www.vintagemanuals.com.  Your #1 source for vintage radio, audio, and test equipment manuals.  17,000 titles.  Get a correct, clean, complete copy of the manual and schematics you need.
• USA / Canada distributor for MAT-TUNER automatic antenna tuners.  
• USA / Canada distributor for Spiderbeam fiberglass and aluminum masts. Portable or permanent installations. Spiderbeam also has a complete line of portable wire yagi antennas.  Made in Germany.  www.spiderbeam.us.
• USA / Canada distributor for Easy-Rotor-Control products, allowing point and click USB control of most Amateur Radio antenna rotators.  Use stand-alone or interface with popular logging and rig control software.
• USA / Canada distributor of the DXPatrol wideband SDR receiver.  2 inches by 2 inches, usable to 2000 MHz.  Powered by the USB port on your PC or Android phone or tablet.  

I have been employed in the ham industry most of my adult life.  Employee of the Ham Radio Outlet store in Atlanta, GA 1994-95.  Product Manager for Amateur Radio equipment at Ten-Tec from 1997-2009; employed with Ten-Tec 1995-2009.  I left Ten-Tec after purchasing Vibroplex on December 21, 2009 and operate the business as my full-time profession.

Radio:  I have been an active ham since 1982, mostly focusing on CW operation and CW contesting in particular.  

Current HF rigs are Elecraft K2, Icom 7300, Icom 765, Ten-Tec Omni-VI+, Yaesu FT-DX1200, Yaesu FT-1000D.  Antennas are hidden stealth wires as I live in a historical overlay zoned neighborhood. 10m and 20m, wire verticals for each band with elevated radials each erected on part of a Spiderbeam 40ft fiberglass pole hidden in a strand of trees in my side yard.  15m and 40m, single band EFHW antennas strung off the 2nd floor eave of my house where they can't been seen from the street.  

I make yearly trips for multi-operator contest operations from Bonaire/PJ4.   The focus in the last few years has been on the CQWW CW and/or SSB contests operating Field Day style M/S or M/2 from Bonaire as PJ4Q.  See a picture of the operation and a description of the set-up on the PJ4Q qrz.com bio.  More recently I have been participating in the building of a large contest station on Bonaire at the northwest tip of the island, PJ4K.  In its present state we won the 2019 CQWW CW contest in the Multi-2 category as our first effort.  More to come.

In addition to W4PA, I passed the complete series of Canadian license exams in 2005 and hold callsign VY2PA.

QSL cards for my operations as DL/W4PA, EI/W4PA, MØWPA, OZ/W4PA, P40PA, PJ2/W4PA, PJ4/W4PA, PJ4Q, R3/W4PA, R37A, VY2PA and 8P9PA go to my mailing address above.  Please include SASE or $1 or 1 IRC to cover return postage. Cards for KM9P for QSO's 2010 or later please send direct to K0EJ.