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 Having spent six years as a news journalist, editor, and photographer during the '70s, followed by more than twenty years in service, product development, marketing and sales of pathology laboratory equipment and various other biomedical instrumentation and software, and traveled extensively throughout the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom to a lesser extent, I recently retired after serving eight years as the Director of the Helvetia Public Library and currently enjoy Amateur Radio from a 2500-ft (762m) hilltop near peaceful Helvetia, West Virginia. |
Helvetia, West Virginia
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TopW8AOK Station Overview
Located on a 3/4-mile long hilltop in
the center of a 200-acre tract, my HF station includes
a Yaesu FT-991A all band multimode transceiver with
an MFJ-969 Deluxe Versa Tuner II feeding a 160/80/40-meter fanned dipole arrangement suspended
from a 65-ft "Walnut
Tower," while a Diamond F-22A 7/8 λ two-element vertical antenna is used for 2-meter fixed operations. A first generation Icom IC-718 serves as a secondary HF rig.
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] was settled by a group of Swiss and German
immigrants, who came via Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1869.
In addition to farmers and herdsmen, many craftsmen
and professionals were among the settlers: stone masons;
carpenters; painters; wagon, shoe, watch, hat, and
cheese makers; musicians; teachers; ministers; and
doctors. By 1874 additional groups arriving from other
parts of the United States and Switzerland had boosted the population
to 308; the population is now approximately 216.
