Welcome to my home on the Web. My name is Jeff Davis and my amateur radio call sign is KE9V. I’ve been licensed since 1977 (WD9GCT, N9AVG) and in those many decades I have explored and enjoyed many facets of this amazing hobby.

From my Novice days as a fledgling CW operator to the early 1990s when I became involved in amateur satellites and radio networking, I can tell you that it has been an incredible adventure for me, and one that I can heartily recommend to you.

I live in Muncie, Indiana [EN70he] which is the seat of Delaware County where some 67,000 others also call Muncie home, not counting the thousands of students who come from elsewhere to study at Ball State University.

For more than a century, Muncie was home to Ball Corporation who did pretty well selling all those Ball canning jars that you would very likely find in your grandmother’s basement. Ball has since gone aerospace and relocated its headquarters to Colorado but its legacy is permanently stamped on our community with Ball State University, Ball Memorial Hospital, and more gifts and endowments than can be listed here.

I’ve been blogging in this space since 2002 but, as you can see, the archives don’t go back nearly that far. I’ve done the CTRL-ALT-DELETE thing to this content more times than you can imagine. Sometimes that’s been the result of having gone off on some tangent that failed to follow the prime directive and other times I have thought to set this venture completely aside and move on to something else.

But time and again I have returned to blogging and I believe that comes from some need to put into words the enjoyment and the frustration that comes from being a passionate participant in a specialized activity like amateur radio.

As far as what you might find here, it could be almost anything. Obviously I write about amateur radio but having just turned fifty (and become one of the newest members of the AARP), I feel qualified to write about the aches and pains of the baby boomers. I’ve been married for thirty-one years, have four children (the youngest and only remaining one at home turns 17 soon) and my wife and I try to help take care of a what few aged relatives that we have remaining.

Life is full and there is no shortage of things to write about…

It’s obviously impossible to catalog a lifetime in just a few short paragraphs so I’ll end here and save the rest of the story for the blog. I hope you will join me, or in some cases re-join me, as I attempt to craft a few more walls of text while sharing my life in these United States as an aging ham radio enthusiast.

73 de Jeff