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Michael A. Maynard
Amateur Radio Operator K4ICY Extra Class
Industrial Design • Prototyping
Electronics • Graphic Design
In-House Graphic Designer for
Classic Shirts, Inc. - Quincy, Florida
email:
MikeK4ICY@gmail.com
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I'm in my early 50's, go by 'Mike,'
and reside in beautiful Tallahassee, Florida, USA
A father to five and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (please
visit churchofjesuschrist.org.)
I have 30 years of graphic design experience and am currently
employed by Classic Shirts, Inc. in Quincy, FL. as the in-house
artist specializing in garment imprint design for the retail
market. Logo design and font creation are proficiencies and I
have an exhaustive list of corporate clientele and other notable
figures who have utilized my work.
SEE
MY PORTFOLIO...
My eventual overall skill set is directed towards industrial design and electrical engineering.
Radio is my avocation and I enjoy Morse code (CW) communications , building
custom gear, SWL'ing and Field Day. I love all things technical and continually seek to learn new things. |
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INTERESTS
ART
& DESIGN •
RADIO •
ELECTRONICS
BOOKS •
MUSIC
& VINYL RECORDS
ARCADE GAMES & PINBALL
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LITERARY TYPES
FICTION • TECHNICAL
TURN OF THE CENTURY
SCI-FI • POETRY
AUTHORS
Jean
Shepherd (raconteur)
Lauri
Anderson • William
S. Burroughs
Clifford D. Simak
• Douglas
Adams
Robert W. Service
• H.G. Wells
Jack
Kerouac
•
Robert Frost
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MUSIC TYPES
HOUSE
•
TECHNO
•
DRUM & BASS • ELECTRONIC
WORLD MUSIC
& CULTURAL • SYMPHONIC • NEW WAVE
VINTAGE
PUNK • HARD ROCK • HEAVY
METAL
MASHUPS • DJ MIX SETS • INDIE • PSYCH ROCK
BANDS
and MUSICIANS (ever changing)
Animal Collective •
Ayreon • Otava Yo
Beastie Boys •
Iron Maiden •
Janelle
Monae
And
more...
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Click
the Pic for My Homebrew QRP Projects!
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MANGA • ANIME
The
works and masterpieces of Studio Ghibli
Classics including the Super Dimension Fortress Macross series
1980's
[Giant Robot] anime
including, Appleseed, Gundam, Dangaioh, Akira, Gunbuster. Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise
COLLECTING
Morse Keys, Vinyl Records, Vintage
Arcade Cabs and Pins, Vintage
Japanese pocket transistor radios, vintage magazines, periodicals,
design
inspiration and etc..
ART
CULTURE
1950'S
"Googie" •
Steampunk & Dieselpunk •
Californian hot-rod subculture
ARCADES
Vintage
Arcade Classics •
Pinball Tables •
MAME Cabinets
CARS & MOTORCYCLES
Vintage
VW Beetles •
Classics • Customs •
Hot-Rods • Concept
& Futuristic • Triumphs •
Harleys
FOOD
About anything... Vegetarian
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RADIO CQ CQ CQ This is
Kilo-Four-India-Charlie-Yankie! |
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CREDENTIALS
Amateur Radio Operator - Licensed: FCC Extra Class
Sometimes Member and Former Vice President of the Tallahassee Amateur Radio
Society (TARS)
Former editor-in-chief of The Printed Circuit - Newsletter of the
Tallahassee Amateur
Radio Society
Coordinator/Chairman
for the TARS annual TARS/ARRL Field Day event (2009 - 2013)
"New Ham of the Year" Award Recipient, 2009 - from the AE4S Repeater Group
29th Annual "TARS and Feathers" Award Recipient, 2012
Straight Key Century
Club SKCC
#8600 N. American QRP CW Club NAQCC #6728
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GENERAL
RADIO INTERESTS
International Shortwave Broadcast Radio listening • Pirate Radio
(Shortwave and FM), Clandestine and mystery stations including numbers
broadcasts. •
AM Broadcast-Band DX'ing • Vintage Radio
Programming (Shows and Music)
AMATEUR
RADIO INTERESTS
HF (CW, QRP low-power, Voice, and Digital) • Kit building:
QRP, QRPp Accessories •
SDR!
Antenna Building and Deployment •
Contesting & Event Stations •
"Elmering" (Mentoring new hams) • QSL Cards and
Awards
ACTIVITIES
DX'ing •
ARRL Field Day
•
Special
Events and Contests •
Jamboree on The Air (JOTA)
Get On The Air events (GOTA) •
Ham Fests!
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MY HAM
RADIO STORY
I
finally got my ticket in 2007 after a 23 year wait. I
realized my
pursuit as a kid after reading a library book on "Ham Radio" (which I stole,) and I've
been into radio since I was a young child. My late father repaired
televisions for a living so I had a ready supply of parts and
knowledge, learning to read from the vintage
GL/TAB electronics books from the '60's. My
grandmother gave me my first shortwave receiver. With that, and a Radio
Shack 50-in-1, radio has been in my blood every since.
I've
always got my hands into one radio-club activity or another, from
editing newsletters to coordinating events. I've even dabbled in emcomm. Also,
I'm continually in the very slow process of learning to copy and send CW at faster speeds - I'm up to 15-20
words per minute head-copy without writing but can sometimes copy words at twice that. I
have an interest in QRP (low power communications) and kit building.
I
Collect QSL cards and treasure them - SO FORK 'EM OVER! I am
consequently working on my WAS and DXCC!
On
this site 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. WE ARE ALL "ELMERS"!
Radio
is my primary interest, especially in the kit-building, 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 on 41 meters. I also (attempt) repair and restoration of
old rigs and radios.
I
was re-introduced to this great hobby through my association with
pirate radio because of the enabling of a very kind fellow that handled
my mail-drop activities. Yes, you read that correct! I was a radio pirate back in the day. But with that, let's just say that I've been on the straight and narrow for a long while and am now an active member of the ham
radio community - legally licensed,
law-abiding, and all that - but I've gained the most joy and experience
from tutoring those interested in radio as well as sharing anything I
invent or build, as you'll find on this site.
So, would you like to tune in the world?
Read my article here on how to Harvest Your Radio Garden.
Visit Radio
Garden [by: Jonathan Puckey]
Just click and drag like in Google Earth, hover over or click on a
green dot to play a station!
You can also download the Radio Garden app [here] to explore on your mobile device.
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