Thank you for visiting. My name is Joe Aurelio and I live in East Tennessee to the east of Knoxville.
Before I retired, I was a technical writer and proposal manager for large telecommunications and computer service outsourcing companies. By training I am a RF engineer, so radio is not a foreign subject for me. I have always enjoyed the challenge of learning and it has helped me throughout my career and now with radio.
When we retired, the XYL and I decided to move back to Tenessee to be with my mother-in-law who is is in her early 90 and still keeping house. So we moved from the big city to a much slower pace and place here in Gray. Here in the hills of east Tennessee, I have almost an acre high on a ridge with a beautiful view to the west. The nearest mountains to my west are just a bit closer than the horizon so propagation to the west is almost ideal. Now to the east, I don't live high enough on the ridge, so I am blocked to the east. Propagation to the NE and our close neighbors in the Carolinas is pretty spotty. I can work to the far North East (Maine, New Hampshire etc) but there is hardly any hams on the air north of Boston, at least on PSK.
