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Rod Dinkins, AC6V - Silent Key
1931 - 2008
Rod passed away in February. More info can be found here. Our family wants
to thank all the wonderful, supportive emails we've received in these last weeks.
Rod was a wonderful husband and father, and we miss him tremendously.
We also want everyone to know that Rod had been working with his son, Jeff Dinkins, to
carry on publishing his books and keeping AC6V.com live and up to date, as well as attain
his Extra Class license (done 12/2009!) and to apply for the AC6V call sign (done 01/2010!).
Best Regards - Karla (XYL), & sons Steev & Jeff
AC6V
Hi, I'm Rod Dinkins living in Oceanside, CA. I started in radio in the
late 1940's as an SWL, AM, and Ham band Listener with a Knight Kit OceanHopper -
later a Hallicrafters S-40A.
Four years at Convair Pomona as an instructor of electronics and guided
missles. 2 years as a vocational electronics teacher at the Junior college level
in Walnut CA. Achieved an AA degree in Electonics under the GI Bill. Over 30 years
as an Electronics Technical Writer with aerospace and Hewlett Packard. Licensed in Amateur Radio since 1977.
Today I am Full Time
DXing (retired), writing Ham Books and enjoy working on my web
pages and being as good an Elmer as I can.
AWARDS GIVEN TO THE AC6V SITE
Rod Dinkins
Oceanside, CA,
USA,
San Diego County
First Ham Ticket WA6WTO - April 2, 1977
AC6V - original issue - July 18th,
1978
10/10 Number 18029
Grid Square DM13ie, CQ Zone 3, ITU Zone 6
Electronics seemed to be my calling and I had 2 years of vocational
electricity and electronics in High School. Four years in the US Navy during the Korean War as an Aviation Electronics Technician - AT1.
Also taught electronics at NATTC Memphis, TN - one year.
Field Day 2002. 11 Year Old Bryce
Kozlowski contacts Australia!
With Assist From AC6V and KG6HBF
Photo By W6VR
CLICK HERE FOR DA SHACK AND DA BIRD
Some Digital Photos with my Olympus D600L
WHY ANOTHER HAM RADIO PAGE???
Rod in San Diego
Personal Photo Album
AC6V GENEALOGY PAGE
DINKINS
GENEALOGY PHOTO PAGE - 7 GENERATIONS
DINKINS GENEALOGY ON FTW
The Harmonics Son Steve Is A Video/Media Engineer
At Apple Computers
The XYL
Son Jeff is Programming at Sun Microsystems
Karla is an ER Nurse Extraordinaire at the La Jolla VA Hospital
ROD AND KARLA COMMANDEER THE DAWN PRINCESS
K9TZU
-- Our New Family Addition
Our Fine Feathered Friend -- VK1BRD
Civil
War Re-enactment Photos
MY HAM AWARDS -- BRAG
BRAG
DXCC HONOR ROLL (326 MIXED) DXCC QRP
(107
MIXED)
5Band WAS
+
WAS 17M +
49 STATES ON 12M
(Need
Utah)
Six Meters
-Worked 49
US States and 6 DXCC Countries.
226
Grid
Squares (VUCC)
State Needed For WAS 6M - KY.
WAZ
10M, 15M, 20M
DXCC
MIXED #18222 DXCC
PHONE #8758 DXCC CW
#1682
DXCC
HONOR ROLL MIXED SEPT 2001 DXCC
QRP APR 2002
5BAND WAS
#421
WAS CW #27,120 WAS
QRP
WAZ 10M SSB
#118, 15M,
20M
WPX #888
WAC
WAVE #985
Current ARRL DXCC
Entities- 335
DXCC Mixed - All Time Confirmed + Deleted -- 336 (326 Current)
DXCC Phone - All Time Confirmed + Deleted --
328 (319 Current)
DXCC CW - All Time Confirmed + Deleted --
168 (165 Current)
DXCC QRP - All Time Confirmed + Deleted --
107 (107 Current)
DXCC Band Countries - All Time
Confirmed + Deleted -- 1085 (1075) Current)
DXCC is copyright ARRL and its use here is printed with permission of the
ARRL.
2,112 miles per
Watt -- Mozambique C9 -- 10,564 Miles to San Diego, Ca -- Worked QRP -- 5
Watts
Ten/Ten Number 18029
Grid Square -
DM13ie
WANA -- Worked All Neighbors Again
WAB -- Worked All Beacons (:-)
TORA Award -- Timed Out Repeater Again
COUNTRIES STILL NEEDED
FOR TOP OF THE ROLL (9)
3Y - Bouvet -- Not Even Captain Cook Could Find This One!!
7O - Yemen - Missed Em
BS7 - Scarborough Grief
P5 - No. Korea
VK0 - Heard -- I've never even Herd Em
VU - Nicobar
VU - Laccadive -- Lack this one too!!
YA - Afghanistan -- Been Hounding em
ZD9 - Tristan da Cunha
COUNTRIES NEEDED FOR DXCC HONOR
ROLL PHONE (7)
(Or Any Of The
Above
9U
- Burundi
BV9P - Pratus Isle
E4 - Palenstine
FT5W - Crozet Isle
FT5Z - Amsterdam Isle
VK0 - Macquaire Isle
ZC4 - UK Bases-Cyprus
But I am QRO!!!!!
U.S. NAVY SERVICE
Rodney Roy Dinkins
USN 4287963
US Navy -AT1 - Aviation Electronics Technician 1951-1955.
Click below to see more photos of the "Connie"
Radio Operator and Avionics Maintenance Technician.
Air Transport Squadron VR-8Hickam Field Hawaii
Aircraft were Douglas R5D and Lockheed R7V-1 Super Constellations.
US NAVY R7V-1 SUPER CONSTELLATION (Photo Credit - William Henry Davis, K1WD)
Aircraft Above Is A Restored Air Force C-121, Navy Version Is
Very Similar
The Navy MATS Page
-- VR3, VR6, VR7, VR8, VR22 Squadrons
Lockheed Super Constellation -- Navy R7V-1
-- VR8
United States Navy C-130 Squadrons - Including VR-8 Lockheed
Super Connie -- The Constellation Group
The MATS Connie Page
-- Restoration Group in Arizona
Connie
In Antarctica
Blue
Angels Super Connie (C-121)
Navy Squadron VW-13 Restoration - Wow Lockheed Super Constellation Avionics
-- APS's, ARC's etc. (Compiled By R. Dinkins)
Air Force Constellation
-- EC-121 (551st and 552nd AEW&C WINGS)
Lockheed EC-121
Constellation
Connie
Survivors/Restorations More
Connie Survivors - lots of photos
Penndel's
Super Connie Finds A Home -- This one had a Wet Bar and Dance Floor !!!!
Some Other Navy Aircraft I flew In
Beech SNB -- For Airborne Radar Training (APS-4 B-Scan Radar!)
Douglas Transport Aircraft -- R4D
Douglas
R5D - A Navy MATS Photo Martin Mars JRM-1 (Mariana's Mars) Flying Boat
-- Two are still flying as firebombers
Lots of History and Personal Accounts of the Martin Mars
Photo
Gallery USN Planes & Ships I Worked On Or Flew/Sailed In
AMATEUR RADIO CLUBS
San Diego DX Club
ARRL Member
Palomar ARC
Northern California DX Club
- Former DXer Newsletter Editor
AC6V HUMOR
Not For The faint Hearted!!
RAN
OUT OF SHECKLES !
Sheckle Generation --- Technical Writer
- Electronics Instructor
Full Time DXing
-- Retired - Mar 1999/Present - May Write A Book or Two!
See
DX101X
FM101x
Solar Turbine
San Diego, CA -- 1998/1999 - Power Turbines - 18,000 Horse Power!!!!
Palomar Products
Carlsbad, CA-- P3V Avionics -- 1997
Cubic
San Diego, CA-- J-Stars -- 1996
Hewlett-Packard
Santa Clara, CA (21 years) -- Freq & Time, Lasers -- 1969-1990
Sylvania -- Reconnaissance Systems
Mt View, CA -- 1962-1969
Philco -- Palo
Alto CA, CAAF Tracking Stations -- 1960-1962
Convair -- Pomona, CA -- Terrier, Tartar, Mauler, Redeye --
1956 -1960
Goodyear
Aircraft, Akron Ohio -- Electronics Technician in the Goodyear Zeppelin
Dock 1955-1956
US Navy --
Pacific Duty -- 1951 to 1955 Didn't make a
lot of money there
Republic Steel -- Canton Ohio,
Electrical Apprentice -- 1949-1951
Early Years -- Usher, Dishwasher, Farm
Hand- Potato Fields
RIGS & TOYS
HF/VHF/UHF STUFF
Kenwood TS-870SAT
Kenwood
TS-570S(G)
Kenwood SM-230
Ameritron AL-80B
Kenwood TS-790A
Kenwood TM-261
ADI-220 MHz
Icom IC-T2H
Kenwood
TH-F6A
Bencher Single Paddle Key
LogicKey Rascal PSK31
ANTENNAS
Cushcraft R-7000
Diamond U5000
Cushcraft AR6
BOATANCHORS
Hallicrafters S-40B
Hallicrafters
S-38C Swan 350 (Three-Drifty!)
Kenwood TS-830S
Hallicrafters SX-100
SCANNER/SWL
RadioShack Pro 2006
Scanner Radio Shack DX-398 SWL
FRS
Kenwood
FRS Radios UBZ-AL14
Will think of more to brag on Later!!
THE AC6V
BRAG PHOTOS
HONOR ROLL -- BRAG BRAG
Latest Shack Shot -- 160 Meters To 1.2 Gig (less 900 Mhz)
Home Made QSL Card Using MS PowerPoint and Printed On Orange Card Stock.
Beam Is NOT
Standard Equipment!!
Photo By AC6V With Pentax ZX-5 35mm Camera. At Oceanside Harbor.
Made With an Avery Transparent Label For AC6V Overlay.
Reverse Side Uses an Avery Label For QSL Info.
Star Of India At San Diego Maritime Museum
Photo By AC6V With Pentax ZX-5 35mm Camera.
For callsign - made with an Avery Transparent Label #8660.
Reverse side uses an Avery White Label #5263 For QSL Info.
The world's oldest active
iron-hull sailing ship, the Star of India was built in 1863.
Star Of India History
2.
My Latest QSL Card From CheapQSLs
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