God Bless America

Finish working all counties for the 3rd time, 5/13/08
Thanks AD8W for Clayton, IA.

Worked all 3077 USA Counties - USACA # 1069 - 5/31/03
Worked all 3077 USA Counties - USACA 2nd Time #342 - 10/23/04
Worked all 3077 USA Counties - USACA 3rd Time #212 - 10/23/04

Master County Hunter Award (BINGO) #248 - 7/29/04
Click on awards to see certificates

ARRL Life Member
MARAC R-2962
DXCC: 293 Countries worked 7/4/2008
236 confirmed! 3/15/2006

Brightleaf Amateur Radio Club - W4AMC/W1VOA/W4UHS
Ham Chatter and web site Editor for BARC

Computer and station Click on picture to see operator.

Check out the WHAT'S NEW page.   This page has links to items about Amateur Radio,  aviation, space, and other interesting sites.  A  W4YDY Mobile page was added 1/16/03. A new mobile radio was installed in September 2002 consisting of an Icom 706MKGII and a Tarheel screwdriver antenna. Page was updated August 2004 with Little Tarheel screwdriver antenna.

Lemmie, W4QI, (Silent Key), my first cousin, encouraged me to get my Amateur Radio License. He passed away in 1997. He was licensed in 1931 and held the same callsign for 66 years. In 2002, relatives and friends organized the Holland Amateur Radio Society and his old callsign, W4QI, was issued to the club on 5/28/02 with W4YDY as Trustee. See the Internet page I made about him.

W4YDY was the first station contacted from the South Pole (KC4AAA) using PSK31 on November 5, 2001!  QSL card received November 21, 2001. (QSL card back).

BARC HOTY

Named Brightleaf Amateur Radio Club 2007 Ham of the Year.  Had same honor in 1997 and 2001.

BARC Life

Presented with Brightleaf Amateur Radio Club Honorary Life Member award at the 2007 BARC Christmas party.  Bios featured in Meet the Member columns in October 1998 and December 2003 issues of BARC Ham Chatter.  Click on plaques for larger version.

Icom IC-756PRO

Connected to a 1700 MHz Gateway computer is an Icom IC-756PRO transceiver and Collins 30L-1 amplifier for HF. An Alinco DR-610 is used for the 144 and 440 MHz bands. Also at the operating position is a Collins KWM-2 transceiver and 321B-5 station control. Modes of operation used are SSB, CW, FM, AM, Packet, RTTY, PSK31 and MFSK.

W4YDY and WN4YDY licensed October 7, 1952, first contact December 25, 1952. Second station call signs: K4IWJ (4/16/56 to 12/8/82) and K5NC (4/12/77 to 12/8/82). Repeater call sign: WR4ACH (7/20/73 to 12/8/82).

Also, check out the page with 49 callsign auto tags starting in 1956.

Picture on left painted and presented to me by my wife.  It's Ham! The picture is displayed in the shack. 
Click on the picture for large version.

At the right is a 60 foot Rohn foldover tower with a Mosley TA-33 (bought and first installed in 1960) with the12-17 Meter modification (installed 12/99), a 3 element 6 meter yagi and a 11 element 2-meter antennas up 70 feet.  At the 40 foot level is an inverted vee with 160, 80 and 40 meter elements.  A dipole is used on 30 meters.   (Click on picture for larger view. Opens in new window.)

November 1971 - North Carolina Governor Bob Scott issued an executive order designating W4YDY as an Official Radio Amateur Station of the Governor's office for the 1971 Holiday Season.

(Click on certificates for full size view. Opens in new window.)

December 1971 - North Carolina Governor Bob Scott conferred to W4YDY The Order of the Long Leaf Pine with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary, the highest honor bestowed to citizens of the state. Quote from the Raleigh, NC News & Observer when NASCAR race driver Dale Earnhardt received one, "The award is the highest one given by the governor.  It is for individuals with a proven record of community service, extra career efforts or service to an organization. Past winners of the Order of the Long Leaf Pine include Michael Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, and former U. S. Sen. Sam Ervin." Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Henry Shelton received the award in 1999.

AMATEUR RADIO

The Brightleaf Amateur Radio Club is located in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. I am the Editor of the BARC Ham Chatter and the BARC Internet site. The monthly newsletter Ham Chatter, is also on the BARC site.

American Radio Relay League- Noncommercial association of Radio Amateurs.

Amateur Radio Links - Over 70 links to Amateur Radio Internet sites, some with thousands of links.

Auto tags with callsigns W4YDY, K4IWJ, WR4ACH and K5NC. A page with 49 images from 1956 until....

Received CQ Millennium award for 2001 and had article in CQ Magazine.

My primary computer log is PDA LOGic.  Over 77,000 QSO's have been entered and it keeps track of QSL records, contests, DXCC, States, Counties and any other award you want to track.   Also it prints out any type of report you may require and QSL cards.  You may design your own reports and QSL cards.  Send CW, works with PSK programs, control radios, control rotor, FCC callbook with weekly updates, Logbook of the World, eQsl, telnet windows, any contest interface, world map, DX spotting windows and many, many other features. Click on the logo below to see them all. Instructional videos. 

Weather Links

World wide weather, radars, cameras, forecasts

Aviation Links

My experiences with a Piper Cub J3 crop duster in 1951.
(9 Pictures)

AirNav.Com Airport info, Navaid info, find frequencies and other information

Track a flight.  See where the airlines are located on a map with weather while in flight. 

Also links to web sites that have hundreds of links to airports, airlines, flying information, FAA and NTSB sites. The FAA site has links to the latest FAA regulations.

Miscellaneous Links

A page of Useful Internet sites. US Post Office ZIP code and address lookups, genealogy links, travel, US Tax Code, and Physician lookup. You might find something that will help you!

FAMILY - Home page addresses

Susan - Daughter - WA4AKB - Now an Amateur Extra. Passed 20 WPM code test and written for Amateur Extra 2/18/00. Her home page has links to NASA and the space shuttle. A link to the countdown clock is in effect when a shuttle is preparing to launch.

W4QI (SK) - First Cousin - Lemmie's page with pictures including some from his Amateur Radio station in the 1930s.