Joe will conduct two of our popular OzarkCon kit building workshops on
Friday evening where you will have an opportunity to learn from a
master builder on the correct ways to construct a working kit.Hands-on Kit Building Workshop Instructor
Joe Eisenberg, KØNEB
Joe will conduct two of our popular OzarkCon kit building workshops on
Friday evening where you will have an opportunity to learn from a
master builder on the correct ways to construct a working kit.
Introduced to the hobby at an early age by my mentor, Leo Meyerson, WØGFQ (World Radio!) I was first licensed at the age of 14 in 1969 as WNØWRI, (later WAØWRI and now KØNEB). My first HF rig was certainly not QRP, being a Galaxy GT-550 that I got to follow as it was built, step by step at World Radio in Council Bluffs. In high school, I made the most interesting contact I ever made with JY1, King Hussein from my high school club station (HT32B/SX-101A and Collins KW-1 to a TH6 up 66'!). After high school, I went to the University of Nebraska where I studied Broadcast Journalism. After college, I went into the IT industry working on anything from PCs to mainframes, with a few years thrown in of being an RF bench tech in making repairs, testing, and prototypes of VHF/UHF receivers.
I am currently a Field Engineer for an Omaha IT services company, specializing in various types of printers, computers and networks. I have served as Nebraska frequency coordinator and I co-founded the largest multi-state regional repeater frequency coordination organization in the USA, the Mid-America Coordination Council (MACC) and served as national chair of the ARRL VHF Repeater Advisory Committee for 2 years. I have spoken at the Dayton Hamvention 18 times, 7 of which were for frequency coordination, and the last 11 years on Kit Building. In ham radio, I enjoy just about everything, I enjoy contesting, like November SS, operating Field Day, and of course, QRP and building kits. My first QRP kit was a Heathkit HW-7. I didn't let it's performance deter me and I went on to trying various QRP radios and kits since then. Besides my QRO radios, I now have a Yaesu FT-817 and Elecraft KX-1, as well as numerous other kit radios. I have found that amateur radio has so much to offer, that if I got tired of one aspect of the hobby, I can step into another one, like storm watching, satellites, VHF, antennas, or APRS. But, QRP always has stuck with me.
My other hobbies include traveling and artistic photography, and I have won several first place awards at the Nebrasks State Fair. I combine photography and ham radio by making slide shows that are carefully set to music of the annual Dayton Hamvention and now have my shows online for download or viewing. They are available for downloading at http://radiodx.googlepages.com or they can be seen on YouTube by searching under my callsign as a key word.