K7HRL
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SOTA
- Home Region
- W7W
- SOTA Activities
My main interests lie in doing activations via SSB VHF/UHF and satellite, 6 meters may be in the cards as well. I have a portable satellite station I use for FM and SSB satellites, it's perfect for SOTA and POTA.
Personal
- Name
- Jason A Isoldi
- Bio
2021-10 After 17 years I’m back on the air and building a new shack.
My love for Amateur radio started in 1996 in Phoenix AZ and never died but I let circumstances in my life take me away from it. In the mid 2000s, family and health issues left me with no time or place to be involved with radio. The worst of it was letting my license expire. Now 2021 and recently my passion for RF has been reignited and even though I’m in an apartment with no way to have outdoor antennas nothing is going to keep my off the air…
I originality got into amateur radio not because it was of interest to me but because of an encounter with a very persuasive and persistent ham at Ham Radio Outlet in Phoenix. I stopped in one day for coax that I needed for a job and Mr Mike Baker K7DD who worked there part time and still does BTW, started up a conversation as hams are prone to doing. At the time I had the same misconception many people have that amateur radio was old men sitting in front of a bunch of complicated equipment talking in morse code. Mike showed me how wrong I was that day. What hooked me and started my absolute infatuation with radio was a NASA mission. See Mike as well as being involved in just about every other aspect of amateur radio was into fast scan TV. The local club in Phoenix, Arizona Amateurs on TV had a demo there in the HRO store and was retransmitting the current shuttle mission. Well that was the it for me, video was a hobby of mine already and WOW I could transmit TV, count me in. I left the store that day with a ham study book a Yaesu FT-530 and Mike’s phone number. Mike quickly became my mentor and friend and before long I was a licensed amateur.
Even though I lived in an apartment at the time I was able to put up some homemade antennas, 2m and 70cm copper pipe J-poles and a 70cm cubical quad made from paint stir sticks, wooden Dowels, and copper wire, hamateur engineering at its finest. I purchased a club made ATV transmitter and off I went. As everyone in amateur radio knows my interests grew from there.
Unfortunately I never could get CW down, just couldn’t copy it at any speed. The topography in Phoenix lent itself to any line of sight propagation though so that’s where I went, up up up. Our TV club covered any band it could, some of us played with stuff all the way to 10gig and beyond.
I was just getting into satellite and QRP work when I left radio life and since I’m in an apartment with no hope of outside antenna placement thats going to be my focus now. I’m going to try my hand at portable satellite work and some POTA and SOTA work also.
History
- Member for
- 2 years 5 hours