73! DE Mike
Maynard of Tallahassee Florida, USA
Amateur Radio Operator - Extra Class License
Graphic Designer for Classic
Shirts, Inc. & Bear Den Leader for Cub
Scout troop #121
Member: ARRL
& the Tallahassee
Amateur Radio Society
Certified: Amateur Radio Emerergency Course (EmComm) Level 1
FEMA Incident Command System - ICS-100, 200 & 700
Ham interests: HF & DX. Field Day, JOTA & Contests, Emergency & Mobile
Operation
Coordinator of the TARS / ARRL Field Day - 2009
I've only been a ham since
2007 but have been into radio since I was a child. My father repaired televisions and my
grandmother gave me my first shortwave receiver. Radio has been in my blood every since..
I'm working on my EmComm preparedness and further training and certification are on
the horizon. Also the very slow process of learning to copy CW.
K4ICY is a vanity call (formerly KI4VML). I chose "ICY" just because it
sounded interesting (I see why), but mostly because it carries over HF and through the DX
pileups well. Over time, the ICEE Bear icon-ism came to be. - Ham radio IS a hobby of fun!
Here I'll post pics and other interesting stuff from my projects and hope to be of help to
other newer hams like myself. I can answer a myriad of ham radio questions - feel free to
email me.
I have a lovely wife of 16 years and five youngins. I am a Cub Scouts den leader
and have been a teacher of many a Sunday school class in my time. My greatest talent is
graphic design as you can see and I love to collect things that are visually interesting:
pocket transistor radios from the 50's & 60's, Japanese packaging, anime & manga.
Vintage magazines, fonts and other useful things for artists such as element from hot rod
& surfing related culture.
Collecting QSL cards is a major interest also! - SO FORK 'EM OVER!
I am currently working on my WAS and DXCC! Electronics has been a passion of
mine since my youth and I enjoy building QRP and accessory homebrew projects. I love
vintage Volkwagen Beetles.
I collect music albums and enjoy my hand at creative audio production. My favorite type of
music includes heavy metal, hard rock, electronic and 50's doo-wop.
My favorite baseball team is the Atlanta Braves a favorite past time of my youth.
Radio is my primary interest, especially in the Shortwave broadcast & HF genres. I
also enjoy hunting for obscure low power shortwave broadcasters, strange clandestine
signals and monitoring the extremely enjoyable shortwave pirate radio broadcasters.
I also (attempt) repair and restoration of old rigs and radios.