K0XB - Rick at Lake Vermilion, Minnesota USA

KØXB - Rick at Lake Vermilion, Minnesota USA

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Rick Borken

Amateur Radio Station KØXB

Lake Vermilion, Saint Louis County, Minnesota USA

Welcome to my web page! Please send me an e-mail message and let me know you have been here.

My QTH is on the shore of Lake Vermilion, which is a large and beautiful lake in the wilderness of northern Minnesota just a few miles west of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Eagles and osprey fly over the lake almost every day, and deer, bear, moose, fox and wolves live in the nearby forest. Fishing is good too. Walleyes are the most popular game fish, but northern pike, muskies, crappie and bass are plentiful.

In the winter, when the air is cold and crisp, one can gaze at the moon for hours.

I also operate as KØXB/6 in Coronado, California or as KØXB/5 from the desert in Santa Fe.

My current set-up includes a Ten-Tec Omni VI+ transceiver and Centurion amplifier, a Kenwood SM-230 Webcam photo station monitor and a Timewave DSP-599zx digital audio filter. I also have one of Ten-Tec's new Argonaut V's (a great little rig!), and an older Omni C, Series D that just keeps on working even though it's more than twenty years old. A KT-34A tribander is my primary HF antenna, and I have vertical and dipole antennas for the other bands.

I am on the Mixed DXCC Honor Roll, and I have also earned RTTY DXCC and QRP DXCC. Licensed as a Novice in 1961 as WNØAPN, I received my General Class license in 1962 and became WAØAPN. I upgraded to Extra Class in 1976, and my callsign has been KØXB since 1977. I belong to the ARRL, the Northern Minnesota DX Association, the Minnesota Wireless Association, the Twin Cities FM Club, and I was one of the founders of Hamfest Minnesota. I am a vice president and charter member of the Lake Vermilion DX Association, and I am a member of the Board of Directors of the Sportsmen’s Club of Lake Vermilion.

Here is a special link. I did not know where to put it, so I put it here.

Feel free to QSL via the bureau, via Logbook of the World or direct to my callbook address, and I will reply 100%.

Thanks for visiting es 73, Rick

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This is a 171 Angstrom image of the sun taken today by the EIT (Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope) aboard the NASA SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft. You can click on the picture to go to the SOHO home page.

Page updated January 17, 2005