Station WA2ZOA

www.jerrymack.com

Owner, control operator Jerry Mitkowski.

Boring stuff:

Occupations:

Professional staff at The Conservatory of Music, SUNY Purchase: Steinway specialist; BMI composer, arranger; pianist, B3ist, bassist.

Instruments:

Piano: Any one of 60 Steinways ranging from a 2008 9' Model "D" concert grand to a 1946 45 inch console.

Organ rig: chopped 1947 Hammond CV/ Pair Leslie 122's with various power heads.

Basses: 1983 Fender US Custom Shop Precision w/active EMGs & bridge pickup; 1972 Fender Jazz Fretless/maple fingerboard; 1966 Eastwood fretless semi hollow; Fender US Precision 2003; Fender US Hiway 1 Jazz 2007; Fender Mex Jazz 2005, Fender Mex fretless Jazz 2008; SDGR 5 string w/active Bartolinis 2009Ibanez Acoustic Bass.

Amps: Ampeg B12; Ampeg b15; Oliver B-120 over 4 1968 Jensen Blue-Cap 10's ported; Hartke 4x10 under a Crown 200; Carvin B800 over Carvin 4 X 10; Sound City 50R.

Hobbys:

Amateur Radio, SWL, Porsche, Woodworking, junky weirdineffectual old tube type CB sets, AM broadcast rx using passive directional loop antennas, wannabe Sony collector. Autos: 1983 Porsche 911SC Targa Carrera, 1988 Volvo 240DL Wagon.

Modes of operation:

CW, SSB, AM, FM

Bands of operation: 160-6 meters, 2 meters, 70cm.

Fixed Station Radio Gear:

Base: CW: Icom-740 w/AEA MM3 Morse Machine & Vibroplex Warior paddles. I like to run abut 50 watts on or about 7.030 MHz in the late evening hours; ssb: Kenwood TS-830s with MC-50 and SP-520 (which is superior to the speaker that was actually sold with the 830); standby: Eico 720/730 & Drake 2B; current station antenna G5RV at 40 feet. Broadsides N & S.

Mobile Radio Gear:

Yaesu FT 857D; Yaesu FT-7800; antennas: hamsticks, Larsen 5/8 wave center loaded mag mount for 2m & 70cm.

SWL gear: TMC GPR-90; Sony 2010; Yaesu FRG 7; TenTec regen; Archer Globe Patrol regen (my original kit from 1973 and still works GREAT) several trans-oceanics, tube tabletop units & various others worth no mention

Classic CB stash: Tram Titan; Browning Twins R27/S23; Lafayette Comstats 25, 25A, 25B, 35; Globe President VIII; Lafayette Micro 12; Johnson Messenger 323; Johnson Messengers 1 & 2; Johnson Messenger III & 300,  General Radiotelephone MC12. Eico 770, 771W, 772. Heath CB1. 

That's all folks.

As best I can, I have always serviced, maintained and aligned my own gear. I always have my eyes on state-of-the art gear as well as modern modes and enjoy all phases and eras of amateur radio design and technology.

Thanks for visiting my page and take care.

73 for now,

_jerry