K5EM

Justin McAllister, K5EM’s early interest in ham radio in high school, set him on a professional path to electronic engineering for industry,  startups, and entrepreneurship.  In ham radio,  Justin  adopted a few favorite areas of special interest.  Justin likes to operate satellites with his portable full duplex rig, operate the digital modes both actively and passively, creating new antennas designs, and getting out in nature to operate POTA and SOTA.  K5EM is my QSO Today.

Websites:
Justin McAllister – Hardware, Software, Robotics
On X: https://x.com/justmcallister
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinmcallister/

Hometown: Weatherford, TX

First License:  May 1997, Technician, Age 16, KD5AKO

Current Rig: 
Icom IC-7300 HF Transceiver

Elmers or Mentors:
Terry Henderson, KJ5ZR
Bill Osborne K5ZQ

Most interesting equipment on workbench: 
Microscope Stereo

Terms
CB Radio
DX on CB Radio
Police Scanner
Texas Storm Chasers
National Weather Service
Skywarn Net
Radio Shack Amateur Radio Technician Manual
Hamcon Amateur Radio Convention
University of Texas, Dallas Ham Club K5UTD
Lockheed Martin, Dallas
Norcal 40A HF Transceiver
Wilderness Radio
ARRL Field Day
SOTA – Summits on the Air?  
SOTAcat  
Western Washington DX Club
End-Fed Halfwave Antenna
FT-8 Digital Mode
Kantronics KPC3
Kenwood TH-D7A/E Dual Band Transceiver with APRS TNC 
M1GEO Two-Meter Maxon Antenna
SO-50 “Turn on the Satellite”
Yaesu FT-817 All Band Transceiver
SatMatch
Pinewood Derby
Metcal Dual Output Soldering and Rework Station
KZ1W Contest Station
Hermes Lite 2 SDR Transceiver
Spark SDR Software
“Simple antennas suitable for a zombie apocalypse”  

Advice to new or returning hams: find something that really interests you and go with that.