KY6N & KH6AH official web  site

01/19/08 Update......

This page is mostly about the KY6N, home QTH location. Click on the KH6AH links at left to be taken to the Hawaii site and for details about the Hawaii Internet Remote operation.

Actually this page needs updating....I have sold the Hawaii house and the Fortuna property too.  However...they were fantastic radio locations and the new home location in Eureka, CA is nice but not a great radio location. (01/05/09)

KH6AH Hilo, Hawaii Internet Remote TS 2000

KY6N Fortuna remote operation TS 480

The Remote Challenge!
House and yard

This is the view from my operating position. All of the trees .....for 26 miles are Redwoods.
Out the window view, foggy morning
View the local Redwoods
House and yard from about 30 ft up the tower
North West California
72 ft HyGain crank up tower.

On the very top is a Cushcraft R5 vert.

Under that is the 17 Meter 5 element monobander on a 30 ft. boom

Under that is the KLM 20M5, 5 element 20M monobander on a 42 ft boom.

Click for Fortuna, California Forecast
The ill fated quad project
Current time and temp. above.

Click for current local weather forcast & stats.
This is a view from the the tower location....looking south west and west. The Pacific Ocean is about 5 miles from the tower.

The Ferndale Valley is famous for its quaint victorian town and is a major dairy center. The river that flows through the valley is the Eel River, seasonal home to Salmon and Steelhead.

KY6N summer camp at Lake View Terrace RV park, Lewiston CA. Summer 2004. This RV park is located about 150 miles from the home QTH. The draw is the fishing lake and the warm weather. On the road I use an ICOM 706MkIIG with an automatic ant. tuner and a 32 ft push up vert. on the rear of the RV....and I now have a 130 ft dipole fed with 300 ohm twin lead matched through a new SGC 239 tuner. The dipole works much better than the vert.
This is the new RV as of October 2003. It an Alpenlite 32ft. .......well and I also had to have a new Chev DuraMax to pull it with....
This is a picture of the operating position inside the Alpenlite.

I built in a small custom desk for my "toys".

This picture was taken at Park Moabi in Jan. 2004. Park Mobai is located on the CA side of the Colorado River about 10 miles south of the town of Needles, CA.
The Trinity River running full. This picture was taken May 25,2004 just below Lewiston Dam.

The flow is very high since this is the spring and they are releasing more water than normal.

This weir has been breached to allow the salmon to swim to the hatchery about 1/2 mile further upstream.

Looks great to me...but it's cold...about 42 degrees.
This is the lower part of Lewiston lake with the fish hatchery below.
What I do for a living. www.rainbowstorage

The self storage business I started about 30 years ago and I am involved in the operation on a daily basis also. In addition I try to catch a trout now and then.......and have even been known to chase a little white ball around a cow pasture once in a while.
Radio equipment for sale
Email: ron@ky6n.com
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