About the Author

Bill Jones, K8CU, has been an active Radio Amateur, CW Dxer, and home project builder since first receiving his Amateur Radio license in 1966 at age 17. Bill is an electronics professional with four-decades of experience. He spent 18 years at Optek, Inc. designing hardware and writing software for embedded electro-optical controls.

He has written about several of his Amateur Radio home projects in ARRL publications.

Some other interests include six-meter DX and maintaining his personal web site on which he has placed some entries from his notebooks. A member of a nearby sportsman's and conservation club, Bill can sometimes be found fishing with his wife, Bonnie.