Workamping the FL Keys!

Workamping at Sunshine Key Winter of 2010/2011

We lived & workamp in a tropical paradise!

Sea life was very abundant!

Sherry, Sheila, & I enjoying Joey's grilling!

Workamping is not supposed to be all work without play!!!

Joey and Luther summarize our fun!

Workamping has allowed us to Full-time RV at a younger age!

Full-timing with a new puppy

Life became interesting the moment Stella and I locked eyes that spring afternoon May of 2010. I had refused to go into the puppy petting area, I knew how those sly beasts could hypnotize you into taking them home! Well, I wasn't wrong, we were instantly under her spell and a day later our RVing life opened another chapter in how to double our fun and adventures at the same time!!!

How could anyone refuse a look like that?

Or hold still while she has her first Dairy Queen visit in Keystone, SD?

Or not take her on long walks to visit bunny rabbit trails on the family farm as she grows up?

Stay tuned for further adventures of Stella Beagle!!!!

Our Gooseneck Hitch

We are getting setup at our site at our winter workamping location in N. Ft Myers, FL. I took a few photos of our Gooseneck ball and Anderson Ranch Gooseneck Adapter.

Our flatbed truck bed is 42" high at the rear or 40" compressed with the weight of the kingpin on it. The distance between the flatbed surface and top of the kingpin is ~11" with our Excel 33RSE RT pulling completely level. Our pinbox is installed into the upper-most position possible.

The many phase of Amateur Radio

I am David, KU9L. I was first licensed with call sign KA9EDP in 1979. My wife Sheila is KB9YYI. Our current phase of life has us operating as /P or /M 100% of the time. We are new full-time RV'ers traveling and working across the USA. I've always been passionate about working CW and weak signal VHF so it is no wonder why my ham radio activities work so well around operating portable QRP. Our current commercial rigs are only a couple of Yaesu VX-1R HT's that we use for family communications. I've always enjoyed building electronic projects all the way back to my Novice days when I built my first 250 mw rock-bound rig as a project in college. I've built a half-dozen Heathkits throughout my early ham radio years. As my 18+ year career in aerospace electronics progressed my ham radio activities crawled to a halt. I did build a Small Wonders Labs SW-40 cw transceiver in 2005 which is currently in our storage unit in Iowa along with many of my tools. We closed on the sale of our Colorado house late in the fall which stressed our ability to get everything into storage AND to make it to our winter workamping session in Florida in a timely manner. Shortly I'll document a few HF QRPp rigs I will be building from kits very soon.