User:Na1dx

NA1DX - Amateur Radio Call for Douglas Allan Ellmore, Sr. of Lothian, MD 20711.

He earned #1 USA Rookie for WPX Phone All Bands in 1999 and #5 ranking in the world while only operating 20 of the 36 hrs at my home station using a Drake TR7 and a Heathkit SB-200 600 watt amp. (He didn't operate all night because he was keeping everyone in the house up yelling CQ. Now I have a voice keyer.) He enjoyed WPX trying to get all those prefixes. In contesting, he was a leading Rookie operator for the WPX contest and worked 124 countries in one weekend.

He finally reached his grand goal when he made Amateur Extra in March of 2000 passing 20 wpm CW, just before the change over to 5 wpm CW in April 2001. Hes station at home then was aYaesu FT-1000 and an ICOM 706MKII. He had a Henry 2k-2 2KW amp for 80-10m to warm up the shack. Antennas included a 160m dipole and 80-10m multibander (really inverted Vs), Mosley TA-36 tribander with a 40m kit on top of 40' of Rohn 25, a 5 element 6m yagi, a 7 element 2m yagi, and a vertical at the top of the stack that tuned on 20m-2m.

Rich/KE3Q was an contesting and Field Day mentor at W3AO in 1998 and 1999.

NA1DX coordinated Field Day 2000 for the AARC/ W3VPR, a 5A setup.

From 2001-2002, NA1DX organized a serious 2A team (NA3DX) to operate on the family farm in Lothian, Maryland.

Then from 2003 to 2012, NA1DX was mostly inactive, expect for an occasional field day with as NA3DX.

In 2005, NA1DX removed the antenna farm and sold most of his field day and radio gear.

In 2013, with the help of K3NDM and N3HU/T6RH he put up a 40m delta loop and OCF 7 band Buckmaster. He plans to use my ICOM 706MKII and refurbished ICOM 703. His initial testing in January 2013 found the station effective reaching west coast, Puerto Roco and Italy SSB at 10 watts.

Stay tuned.