[Premium-Rx] re: New Member Introduction

[Steve Hajducek]

Hello All,

I have been a member for a number of months now, but I had a problem 
with my account as to posting messages and was just to busy to 
remember to address it until now.

I have been involved with radio receivers and radio monitoring since 
1964 when my father gave me a Hammarlund SP-200 at the age of 6 and 
opened a whole new world of adventure. Later I bought an HQ-129X 
(both still on line) and listened to SWB, Amateur Radio (licensed 
sine 1979) and then I delved in monitoring utilities and other 
aspects of HF and filled the house with the sounds and smells of 
teletype machines and moving along from simple TU's to high end units 
in the 70's better receivers (many via the MARS program) to Info-Tech 
terminals and early PC's and then writing my own software to decode 
what I could no buy something to do.

Into the 80's move along I had graduated from school and entered the 
DoD contractor arena and worked for the likes of ITT in Nutley (so 
many high end and special receivers that I wanted to take home) and 
later Lavoir Laboratories (many frequency standards and WWV/WWVB 
receivers from there past were about, in the 80's it was field phone, 
NVIS antenna and AIM-9 missile subsystems production) and into the 
90's employment and consulting on various test and communication 
systems development, such as USM-410 and IFTE, GSC-40 SATCOM and 
I-REMBASS/AMDS battlefield sensor systems. During this period I moved 
away from my interest in HF monitoring as I bought house and married 
and did a lot of business travel and barely made time for Amateur 
Radio and even resigned from Navy MARS.

These days I am consulting, still married, more active with MARS than 
Amateur Radio currently (solar cycle DX has that affect) and 
monitoring HF again when not transmitting on HF. I still write my own 
software and have been developing a tool for the MARS program based 
on PC-ALE and code for many high end surplus receivers in the hands 
of the MARS members and also do the same professionally. My current 
personal choice is the TCI 8174, which I still have room for here in 
addition to all the two-way radio gear that clutters the place. I 
often have many other make models here on loan to create drivers for 
when doing so remote just isn't working, so I get to sample both 
classics and state of the art units at times that I neither have the 
room here or budget to own.

Thanks for letting me bore you with my introduction and I very much 
look forward to exchanging information on receivers in general and 
their command and control via this forum.

Sincerely,

/s/ Steve Hajducek, N2CKH/AAR2EY
www.n2ckh.com