Welcome to my HAM radio web page!
The callsign N3GWZ is assigned to Patrick Freeman, Extra Class Amateur Radio Operator.

About N3GWZ
I was first licensed on November 5, 1988 in Schuylkill Haven, PA. I studied and passed all the license exams and earned my Extra class ticket in 1990. My Uncle Dick, K4FKJ, introduced me to this hobby after I became interested in CB. Today, he still helps out with all those technical questions I have from time to time. And, we keep a weekly Sunday sked on 7020 at 8pm Eastern Time. Dick is also a pilot and I hope to follow in his footsteps by training as a private pilot during the spring.

My station consists of a Kenwood TS-2000 (which my wife Lori bought for me for my birthday), and a Yeasu FT-817 QRP rig. Both rigs offer HF, 6m, 2m and 70cm. I use a G5RV for HF and 6m, and eggbeater antennas for 2m and 70cm while at home. All Antennas are camoflauged and/or in trees to prevent the neighborhood antenna preventers from seeing them. The TS-2000 has an internal antenna tuner which works VERY well, tuning my G5RV from 160m through 6m. I also have a LDG Z11 QRP autotuner for use with the FT-817. However, I also have an MFJ-969 Roller Inductor tuner which will tune just about anything. When mobile, the FT-817 is connected to a Yeasu ATAS-100, bumper mounted with an AMCOM controller. When portable, I use a Miracle Whip antenna, long wires, or the MP-1.

I also enjoy communicating with my friends Mark, KA3UEH, Joe K3NEW, and Fred WN2R.

My shack...

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Click here for my recent "cable management" project in the shack.

Pedestrian Portable with my FT-817 and Miracle Whip antenna!

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Pedestrian Portable on the Appalachian Trail
Thanks to WB3GCK for this idea.

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Click here for video of AT contact with W7K special event station in Tacoma, WA (must have mjpg decode or use Quicktime).

Operating W1AW at ARRL HQ on 9/10/01

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N3GWZ Mobile Setup

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Some of my favorite HAM LINKS...
N3GWZ Field Day 2001
American Radio Relay League
EHAM.NET for lots of HAM info
QRZ.COM HAM callsign lookup (good for Stateside)
Buckmaster HAM callsign lookup (very good for DX)
6meter DX web page
Track the International Space Station
Satellites visible from my house
The antenna I use for satellite work
Amateur satellite frequencies
Mark's KA3UEH Ham radio Web Page
Ham Radio Band Plan Chart
Good Ham Radio Info
Budd's Ped Mobile home page
HFPack Yahoo! group
FT817 Yahoo! group
My 97vette Corvette Web Page
HFPack home page