My buddies started calliing me TWFER long ago - its better than weird eddie!

Friends made up the name TWFER for me years ago. It stuck..  Better I guess than WEIRD EDDIE!

 You found  me!

 

Hobbies

I run several mailing lists.
Mog Mailing List for Mercedes Unimog enthusiasts
TX4x4 List for Texas off roaders to exchange information on where to wheel
Installer Mailing List for Mobile Electronics Installers to exchange info
Mobile Electronics Mailing List Mobile electronics, stereo, video, radar, security and alot more.

Shooting - My favorite to shoot is the  1911  .45 Auto.  But recently I have been enjoying shooting bench rifles and find it very satisfying as well.
I find the shooting range a very relaxing place.
I am a Life Member of the  NRA 

Ham Radio NU5K
http://www.nu5k.net

I hold an Extra Class license, my call sign is NU5K.
10-10 #73134

At home in my hamshack now is an Icom 756 Pro III HF and 6 meter,  Icom 2100 2 meter, Icom ID-800 Digital 2meter/440, Icom ID-1 Digital 1.2Ghz, Kenwood TM-D700 2meter / 440 and packet/aprs, Icom 1020 (UHF), RFSpace receiver,  and several scanners. I try to work phone on all the HF bands, and some psk31 as well.

The photo of my shack above is old, but in the photo there is an Icom 970A 2m/440/1.2Ghz satellite radio, Icom 781 HF rig, 2 Icom R-9000s, Icom PW-1 amplifier, Marantz Cassette recorder, Nakamichi Cassette recorder, Universal digital box, 2 AEA pk232 digital boxes, a uniden scanner and a Radio Shack Pro-2006 scanner with the optoelectronics computer control board and several computers.

On my desk at work is an Icom 756Pro for HF and 6 meters, Kenwood TS-2000x for HF, 6 meters, 144, 440, and 1.2Ghz, My grandfathers HAMMARLUND HQ-170, ADI 2 meter, Icom 440Mhz, Icom ID-800 Digital 2meter/440, Icom 706MkIIG for HF and 6meter and 144 and 440 SSB, also an AEA PK900 and  several scanners.

In my vehicle is an Icom 7000 (2m,440, 6m and HF) and a Kenwood D710 for dual band and APRS hooked up to the AVMAP GPS display,
Icom ID-800 Digital 2meter/440, and an Icom 1020(UHF),  along with a Uniden scanner, I have multiple dual band antennas and a High Sierra 1800.  My mobile install is constantly changing.

You can track my vehicle here

Member ARRL - Amateur Radio Relay League
Member B-VARC - Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club (Life Member)
Member 10-10 International - #73134

Don't shop here Houston Amateur Radio Supply Inc. !

SWL - I like listening to the Short wave radio International broadcasts and utility stuff. I have the working Hammarlund H!-170 that belonged to my grandfather when I was a kid, I used to dial the big dials and listen for hours. Still today  I listen to just about everything.
Scanning - I like listening to police scanners, Have several RS PRO-2006's with computer control, 3 of the Uniden BC780s, Uniden BCT15, two of the rare Kenwood RZ-1, R390I HF receiver, I use the ScanStar Spectrum Explorer software to scan anything I want with the computerized scanners .. I also use the Trunkstar780 for manipulating the memories in my Bearcat BC780s ... 
Electronics - Electronic theory and project building
Computers - Internet surfing, web page building, ebay is fun, QRZ.com. youtube  ! 
I have been playing with some online e-commerce and personal projects, PHP and MySQL is alot of fun, also Javascript, Perl.
I have been online since 1981 (yes '81)when I got my first modem, in 1982 I started a dial in computer BBS (ACOM BBS) way way way before the internet got popular!
Genealogy - Researching my relatives is fun
Chess - I don't play as much as I would like to
Collecting - Collecting old Mad Magazines and certain old comic books

Off roading - a Mercedes Unimog  
I sold my Green 1994 Hummer 
I also started the TX4X4

I now drive a 2006 Z-71 Tahoe

My old 99 GMC Suburban was pretty decked out I traded it in when I bought the Tahoe but you might want to see all the stuff I installed in it.

I work at a mobile electronics store, so you can tell from these pages I am a gadget freak... 

This photo of me was on the Hummer Calendar - NO, I am NOT STUCK!

Speaker design - Car and Home loudspeaker design, theory and construction, I collect old loudspeaker enclosures 1940-1960s, and every tech paper I can find. 

charter member in good standing of the very first internet car audio team! 

 

 

Currently Employed by INSTALLER.COM  
(I have been installing mobile electronics professionally since 1974)

It might seem like I have alot of hobbies and interests and I guess I do, but my first interest is always my family. My wife Suzanne (we married in 1976)  and my two kids Eddie Jr. and Patricia.

Suzanne and I in Big Bend National Park in 2000

 Suzanne and I enjoying a day off work 

This page was last updated Today!!!          
By Eddie Runner 


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