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About George I am George, an 18 year-old ham radio operator presently living in Brookings, SD. I was born at a very young age in I graduated from Brookings High School in 2024. Since July of that year, I have been working at a John Deere dealership. For the security of myself and the company that I work for, I will not disclose any further information. I have been the secretary of the Brookings Radio Research Club since 2023. Contact: [email protected] |
Maryland, and since then, I have been interested in electricity. As I grew up, I developed interest and knowledge in electrical wiring, electronics, computers, and later ham radio. In 2022, I started filming trains and became a railfan. In 2024, I began to enter the hobby of working on cars, particularly Saturns. Over the last few years, I have created several YouTube channels with the purpose of sharing my hobby projects with the world. This website isn't necessarily for my YouTube channels; it's more of just a personal website. It mostly contains stuff about the KF0CCI station and related radio projects. It also has info about and links to other things I do.YouTube Channels RC128 The first channel I created was Romeo Cat 128, on January 7th, 2019. I created it when I was 13. My original plan was to do tech videos and occasionally Minecraft videos. At the time, I just uploaded random day-to-day happenings. After the creation of my second channel, I lost interest in the upkeep of this channel. From mid-2020 to mid-2023, I only posted a few random clips. Throughout 2023, I started to take interest in small engines, and later working on my family's Saturns. By early 2024, my friend and I had bought our first project cars. I thought about creating another new channel, but I decided that I should renew the life of this channel and put my Saturn content here. To this day, that is still the main focus of RC128. I also post interesting diesel engine things I see at work on occasion. RC256 Originally Romeo Cat Computers, it was created on June 18th, 2019. As explained in my 5 Years on YouTube video, I wanted to create a separate place for tech related videos. This channel is the largest and highest production quality channel of mine. It features videos about electronics, electrical wiring, radio transmitter circuits, computer programming, and retro computers. I have no particular order or schedule for these types of videos. I upload whatever, whenever I work on something. RC110 I created this channel on April 17th, 2020 to make fire alarm test content. Due to having other hobbies and other YouTube channels, I didn't end up getting into fire alarms as much as I was originally intending. Despite this, I keep this channel around so I can upload random fire alarm stuff as I come across it. This channel was originally called Romeo Cat Fire Alarms RC335 I created this channel July 21st, 2021 while in California. I made this channel so I could upload recordings of NOAA weather stations and non-directional beacons, among other things. It was originally called Radio Station Libarary, and I later renamed it to George's NDB's. This year, I renamed it to RC335 in order to match the new naming system. It came to my attention that there is another YouTube channel with this name, so I may changed it again in the future. I upload very infrequently nowadays. Brookings Rail I became a railfan in 2022, and so I created this channel on January 30th, 2022. At first, I only uploaded short clips of trains passing through Brookings, but later started getting out and seeing other railroads. Since late-2022, I have made videos about my experiences as well as information videos. This is currently my second largest and most popular channel. |
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KF0CCI/3 Maryland Station About once a year, I go to visit my grandma in Ijamsville, MD. I usually take my HF radio with me and I operate using the call sign KF0CCI/3. Because of this, I log my contacts in the /3 QRZ logbook rather than my main one. Operating times and dates can be found on the QRZ page. |
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My radio setup there is not standardized, as it's usually whatever I can fit on the plane with me. I typically bring my Icom 706 and 40-10m end-fed. Because I can't lug my massive Kenwood PSU, I use an old ATX computer power supply that I leave in Maryland. This whole setup usually isn't very good, but I have made good DX on it many times. |
QSL Cards I am an avid QSL card collector. My card box likely has near 300 cards from around the globe. I, of course, have my own KF0CCI card that has been sent out in the hundreds. Below are the two generations of the KF0CCI card. During the KF0CCI/3 opeations this year, I just wrote a /3 onto the regular card, but I may design a special card for my Maryland operations. Likewise, I plan to create some amateur radio beacons in the coming months, and I will make available an SWL card that can be requested. This article will have more added to in the future |
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WV6QFM / WA6QFM Station My grandpa was a ham radio operator during the 1960's. He got his license around the same age I did when he was in highschool. At the time, he lived in Calexico, CA, a small town up against the U.S.-Mexican border. In 1961, he took his test by mail to obtain a conditional license, which gave him the call sign WV6QFM. He later upgraded to Novice and got WA6QFM. He operated using a Heathkit radio and some sort of bamboo antenna. By 1966, he had gone to Berkeley to become an electrical engineer. He renewed his license for another 5-year period, but by then, he didn't have time to be on the radio, which was back at his parent's house. He later met my grandma and his government job brought him to the D.C. area. WA6QFM expired in 1971. | ||
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Unfortunately, he passed away in 2016 when I was only about eight years old. He did get me interested in electronics at a very young age, although he wasn't the reason I found ham radio. If he were alive today, I would definitely have made him get a new license and put a big tower in my grandma's yard. | ||
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CCI50 AM Radio Current Status: Shut Down In May of 2021, I created a part 15 compliant 1950's music station. The transmitter was a "Talking House" that output 100mW onto a 10ft long piece of wire. It transmitted on 1610 kHz. Usable range was 2-3 city blocks, but the signal could be heard up to 0.5 miles away. Audio was provided by an old laptop. I ran CCI50 for a few days straight, then on short occasion throughout the summer. After that, I stopped using the transmitter, but it remained installed until I rearranged my radio desk mid 2023. This article is here not only for historical purposes, but also in case I decide to bring it back. After all, I still have the equipment. |
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In this old radio desk photo, the transmitter is the widest box on the bottom of the center pyramid. Announcement played every five songs: |
George's Computer Download George's Computer is a game I created in 2022 using x86 assembly. I made a video about the game shortly after I finished coding it, and I offer the download here. The game is designed to run on nearly all IBM-compatable x86-based systems. There are three files in the ZIP archive. kernel.BIN is the main game. If you want to run it in MS-DOS, just rename this file to a .EXE file. However, the game was originally intended to be bootable, so the bootloader has been included. Further instruction can be found in instructions.TXT. |
KF0CCI Fox Hunt 2022 Instructions
Object ResultsTony, KD0DSH, was the first and only person to find the fox only about an hour after the event started. Participation is expected to increase in the future, due to this being the first one. A 2023 fox hunt will occur in the summer. |