W4BXI

John Drum

Fort Payne, AL

2004 QTH Photos

This W4UOA "Special Event QSL" is for the First Ever Bell Ringer Cross Band 60 meter band QSO.

WN4-waiting
Before the transmitter arrived

1953

First license 1953!

(left to rt) First rig - a 5 watt CW rig dropped from air WWII & power supply;

(my 2nd rig) Globe Scout 40A bandswitching (big deal) but still crystal controlled;

HQ 129 X (still have!).

Newspaper article 1954 W4BXI

2 meter DX packet antennna, deck mounted, vert polariz, courtesy of Ed Blalack.
Note view from Lookout Mtn toward Monte Sano!

W4BXI Library -- every issue of QST since Dec 1915!
Courtesy of Pete Sides W4AUP an early spark gap oper.

K4HM and W4BXI

1999

W4BXI's QTH - 2004

... W4BXI out in the yard examining trees for antenna supports......
height above ground does not seem to matter much....

This is a "spa view" of downtown Fort Payne there under the clouds.

...this is the Remote Antenna Tuner
(a Dentrol MT 2000A Antenna Tuner)
in the plastic box for control of the Long Wire Inverted L

(The early morning view isn't bad either!)

Junior Op at W4BXI -- Maine Coon Cat -- loves the cold weather!

SkiCloudmont (Alabama) until March 15th!