joel schreibman wa2ufu
I got started in radio back in high school in Yonkers, NY. I found an Elmer in Vlad Spoley (SK) from the Westchester Amateur Radio Club, which met once a month in Hartsdale, NY. I took a bus to the meetings. My father convinced Roosevelt High School to set up a once-a-week class with Vlad as mentor. The students all earned their Technician License in 1972. After my dad passed, my mom rode shotgun as I drove down to Eatontown, NJ to get my first rig, a Drake TR22. I used it tons in the car. I had joined the Yonkers Volunteer Ambulance Corps, and there were a few hams in that group. I was the dispatcher in the basement of the North City Command and drove the ambulance. They installed a Motorola radio in the '98 Olds I drove. I participated in many March of Dimes Walkathons driving the "Poop-Out Mobile" and in several Westchester County, NY CD exercises which used the 147.06/66 repeater on the Valhalla campus in Westchester, NY. I earned the nickname "Hijacker" when they needed a way to transport the high school band. I commandeered a bus for them. When I went to college at Pace University, I found my high school buddy Ed WA2TWT/SK was working in the TV Studio, and I worked with him to build it and to set up their School of Nursing studio, using 3/4" inch tape machines. I did independent study at IPTV, the studio for the Archdiocese of NY microwave broadcast facility in Yonkers, NY. I also built WRPW, a low-power FM station at Pace University. I kinda took a vacation from ham radio until they came out and "grandfathered" all technician class licensees who had passed 13 WPM code exams. I had an EBC [Emergency Beacon Corporation, New Rochelle, NY) 2-meter 40-watt mobile unit which I modified to have a low power 5-watt position as well. It was synthesized in that it had two sets of thumbwheels to make channel settings. I built a PEG (Public, Educational, Governmental) cable channel 23 in Wawarsing, NY while living in Ellenville, NY. I was the PEG Consultant for the adjoining town of Mamakating for 1 year. I got back into ham radio when I went to work at the Montana Department of Corrections and met John, AJ7MT in September 2019. Back in 1996, when I needed a web designer for my professional photography business, a woman named Carla applied. I hired her and decided to keep her, and we have been married 23 years. I have been an IT professional for over 40 years and have managed major data centers for the NYC Department of Corrections and for medical facility for the last 21 years of my IT career. The latest: I just got a drone which I plan to soon deploy.
Shack: I don't really have a shack per se but have taken over the spare bedroom in the house where I have setup a tripod mount outside with a Hy-Gain antenna. Radios: I have an Anytone 878, and I picked up a Yaesu 757GII, which I hope to get on the air next year. My boss (XYL) has grudgingly agreed to let me put up a 20-foot tower with a Yagi, rotator, and the Hy-Gain antenna. Activities: I love participating in things like the Governor's Cup and Elkhorn races providing radio support. Goal: My goal is to get onto HF within a year and possibly teach a broadcasting class. What brought me to Montana: Short answer: The wife. Long answer: I fell in love with Montana back in December 1999. Got fed up with NY, especially the taxes. With the Tax Reform of 2017, the house became unaffordable. My wife purchased her aunt's house in Boulder in 2002 and told our tenants (her ex-husband) to vacate by April 2019, when we would move in. We walked away from the house in NY April 11, 2019, and arrived in Boulder, April 15, 2019. We have 3 wonderful kids, 8 grandkids, 4 formerly feral cats which came with us when we moved, along with our beagle which doesn't bark, howl, slurp, or play. We added her ex's Great Pyrenees when he and his new partner up and left the dog. August 2021 |
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Joel's shack
