WAØMHJ - Ham Radio

My primary interest and activities are DX'ing and contesting. I am currently active on 160 through 6 meters. I have been licensed and mostly active since 1968. I am a member of the Minnesota Wireless Association WØAA contest club (MWA), the Twin City DX Association (TCDXA), and the Twin City FM Club (TCFMC).

2012

Back again in the Turks & Caicos Islands for a full week, QRV as VP5H during the ARRL SSB DX Test, and as VP5/WA0MHJ after the DX Contest.

2011

I was in the Turks & Caicos Islands for a full week, QRV as VP5/WA0MHJ and VP5H during the ARRL SSB DX Test. We placed #1 in the world as the Multi-Single station entry.

I operated once again, multi with the KØIR group in CQWW RTTY.

CQWW PH this year was a multi operator effort with KØXV and son Jason.  Click HERE for details.

2010/2009

For 2010 CQWW RTTY, I had the pleasure of operating at the fine QTH of Ralph Fedor - KØIR in a Multi-2 operation.

In the CQ WPX CW, I was visited by Foster - N3KCJ who happened to be in town, and we operated as a Multi-single. Click HERE for the details.

2008 

I was a 2008 host NU1AW/0 station for the IARU contest allowing Cal - K0DXC the majority of the operating for this event. Click HERE for the details.

1986 

I had an exciting time operating as VP2MU for two weeks, getting a taste of being on the other side of the pile-ups.

Sometime back around 2000, I got the idea to try something a little different by trying a portable operation during the Wisconsin QSO Party. Being in the outdoors seemed like a good change of pace from staring at the same radio, and the same desk I always sit at. My adventures were chronicled in the May 2007 NCJ. Erecting antennas in thigh deep snow, and operating in -20F temperatures led me to look for alternatives for the following years, and thus started my mobile adventures.

You may have heard me in the Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the recently resurrected N. Dakota QSO Parties signs with call such as WØAA, KØLD, or WSØS. Each year becomes a different adventure, always with the challenge of managing a QSO rate pushing 100/hour, while bouncing around inside a noisy vehicle.

MnQP 2009 I operating as KØLD ending with a treat. Click HERE for details.

WIQP 2009, I operated as WØAA finishing with 718 Q's, & 135,586 points. Here is a graph of hourly rates. Click here to ride along with a YouTube video clip.

Minn. QSO Party Home Page      Wisc. QSO Party Home Page

All DX contacts from VP5/WA0MHJ (2011) have been sent out via the bureau system. The 2012 VP5/WA0MHJ operation has been LOTW uploaded. WAØMHJ is registered on Club Log, and those logs are uploaded.

• Recent QSL's: 9V1YC -40M, VQ9JC-40M,  Recent Worked: None

I can QSL for the following WØAA contacts: All QSO Parties since 2000, FD since 2006, CQWW Phone 2011, and ARRL DX CW 2003.