NB1R on the world wide web

I was first licensed as a No-Code Tech as KB1IAR in March 2002, fulfilling what I've seen as my life long destiny to earn my amateur radio ticket.

Growing up in the 1970s, my grandfather had a radio and TV repair shop in the basement of our triple-decker in Lawrence, MA.  I spent hours on end in there messing around with old carcasses of varied broadcast and shortwave sets.

About the same time, my father (KAYD-0388) and mother (KBGN-9944), like just about everyone else in America, got in on the CB radio craze.  They were active in their local CB/Civil Defense club and I had a heckuva lot of fun talking on the air as well.

At the same time, my dad worked with a ham who always tried to entice my dad into sitting for his ticket.  Dad never went for it (I'm still working on him in retirement) but his coworker one night sent him home with a Hallicrafters S38 for me to mess around with.  I got the SWL bug, and the seeds were planted, even though it took me 20 years to fulfill my destiny.

In the late summer of 2002, I upgraded my ticket to a General Class and a couple years later earned my Extra Class ticket as AB1DQ.  I adopted a vanity call, NE1RI for the next couple of years, but dropped that in favor of my present call, NB1R when I left Rhode Island.

At the present time, my primary interests are QRP and building/operating my own station gear.  I hope to add pages to this website to update the radio world of my progress and to also provide resources for other radiomen and women who share my interests.

Why not drop me a line at jmsurprenant@yahoo.com?


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Learning Morse Code - it's fun & easy!
Building a simple Code Practice Oscillator