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Starting A New Company?

Then check out my new blog by clicking Should You Start A Company Today?

Also, check out my new Workshop for Start Up Companies by clicking Workshop!

Manuals

I've set up a page that has downloads of various manuals in Acrobat format.  All of these are for equipment I have owned with lots on Yaesu...but other stuff is there too.  Click Manuals.

Shack-N-Bag TM

Just added a new page with lots of photos showing my easy to "grab and go" portable station.  Click Shack-N-Bag for details.

El Cheapo AZ-EL Rotor System for Satellites:

Details on how to assemble my under $50 approach for my AA5FR El Cheapo AZ-EL rotor system for working the LEO (low earth orbit) AMSAT birds. Click Cheapo.

ATAS-120a Antenna

I have gotten so many requests for info and photos on the ATAS antenna, I've created a separate page.  Click ATAS to see!

New Band:

I have just made my first Six Meter contact in 40 years. Actually about 3 dozen as far away as Canada and Saint Louis. Since both of my rigs offer it and they are the first six meter enabled rigs I have had since high school, I decided to use the tuner and the same 80-10 Meter "AA5FR KindaSorta Dipole" and see what happens.  Getting very good reports up and down the east coast with 40 watts and working just about anything I could hear.. Now considering a moxon to maybe pursue Six more seriously.

New Shack Additions

Just bought the Kenwood TH-F6A HT to add to my minimalist lineup where less is more.  Great little radio in an incredibly small package.  Just added the Diamond CR320A Tri-band Mobile Antenna to the car to run this as an easy mobile. Covers the same 144/220/440 as the TH-F6A HT and works MUCH better than the cheapie MFJ dual bander mag mount.

Also, just convinced the XYL that an HF mobile mount is a good idea, especially for mountain topping (she is less convinced about using it while driving)!  That way, we can operate portable in the comfort of the car with the top down on the convertible. 

Just got the Comet CP-5 and the Yaesu ATAS-120A auto tune antenna.  Will also be using the ATAS for portable operation.  Update:  Just added the Diamond K-400C Mount for the ATAS as I was finding the Comet CP-5 not quite good enough.  See new test results now that I have installed the K-400. Will dedicate the CP-5 to the CR320A by clicking ATAS.

I have gotten so many requests for info and photos on the ATAS antenna, I've created a separate page.  Click ATAS to see!


Email: 

You can email me by clicking on my eyeball contacts (yep, really my eyes.)

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Robert L. Goodman -- Executive Profile

Talent & Capabilities

  •   Highly Creative MBA with High Tech, Internet, Real Estate & Executive Management Expertise.
  •   Very unique combination of credentials, expertise, talent and capabilities that include nearly 25 years of diversified experience with all aspects of creating and managing startup, entrepreneurial and fast growing businesses.
  • Robert Goodman - Ceo / Chief Dragon Slayer / AA5FR

  •   Established Ceo Resource (www.CeoResource.com) to offer Virtual Chief Operating Officer Services and ImpleMentor Advisory Services for business owners, venture capitalists, investors, boards, entrepreneurs and CEOs.  Consulting is specifically focused on business plans, tactical & strategic planning, fund raising, implementation & management consulting exclusively focused on cost-effectively helping start-up organizations, emerging companies, entrepreneurial ventures, non-profits and new business formations slay the dragons that block the path to their success. To date, Ceo Resource has already helped well over 1,000 diverse companies in more than two dozen countries with their business planning, fundraising and plan implementation.
  •   Experienced founder, sponsor, general partner and fiduciary of nearly four dozen ventures and partnerships with a total investment of more than $25 million from clients, partners and venture capitalists

Goodman Group, Inc., and affiliated companies 
1978 - Present
Dallas & Austin, Texas & Clearwater Beach, Florida

Founder, Owner and CEO of multiple companies and partnerships under the corporate umbrella of Goodman Group, Inc. Businesses range from Internet e-business, computer software, business advisory services, real estate investment, private placement syndication, direct participation securities, property management, commercial real estate brokerage and  distressed loan acquisition and collections.

  •   Ceo Resource (www.CeoResource.com) established to offer Virtual Chief Operating Officer Services and ImpleMentor Advisory Services for business owners, venture capitalists, investors, boards, entrepreneurs and CEOs.
  •   Over 15 years of direct real estate investment experience including all aspects of reviewing, analyzing, negotiating, syndicating, buying, managing, refinancing and selling over $100 million of multi-family and commercial real estate. Built the real estate division of the company into one of the ten largest self-storage operations in the nation with over 41,000 units and owned real estate exceeding $60 million in valuation.
  •   Built software company, from personally designing and writing the first commercial application program, to having more than 50 employees and over a dozen products on the shelves of more than 5,000 retail outlets, nationwide. The software company was spun off as a result of a venture capital infusion in 1988.
  •   Grew all parts of combined organizations from multiple concepts to more than 200 full time employees with over 1,200 investors.

Experience of Robert Goodman

  •   Founder, CEO and Chairman of Goodman Group, Inc., a 27 year-old company specializing in diversified investments, advisory services and management consulting. 1978 - Present.

    •  Areas of investment for Goodman Group have included commercial real estate purchase, management and brokerage of apartments, office buildings, office-warehouse and self-storage facilities. Other areas of investment have included debt-instrument investment and collection; high technology; and securities and syndication -- with special emphasis and experience with start up organizations.
    •  Areas of focus for the Management Consulting Division include business planning & implementation; business plan packaging; venture capital and private placement funding; senior level analysis and problem solving; computer systems solution; real estate analysis and evaluation; investment analysis and due diligence -- with special emphasis on dragon slaying.
  •   Founder, past CEO and Chairman of Good Software Corp., a publicly held company, that specialized in personal computer software for business applications, distributing its products through thousands of dealers nationwide.  Mr. Goodman's background in computer programming, systems project management and international computer system sales were gained from a variety of positions held at NASA, Oak Ridge National Laboratories and Rockwell International. Mr. Goodman personally developed Good Software's first commercially available product, Investor III for Real Estate Investment Analysis, which provided the economic and organizational foundation for the Company. 1982 - 1997.
  •   Founder, CEO and Chairman of Good Financial Corp., specializing in the analysis, investment, purchase and collection of loans acquired from the FICA, RTC, banks, savings & loans and other lenders. 1990 - Present.
  •   Founder, CEO and Chairman of Goodman Securities, Inc., a direct participation broker-dealer and member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD) and the Securities Investor Protection Corp. 1982 - 1989.
  •   Founder, CEO and Chairman of Good Asset Management, Inc., which provided real estate investment, property management and brokerage of income properties for lenders, government agencies, partnerships, individual and institutional investors including the management and operation of more than 4 Million square feet and nearly 45,000 units of commercial and residential properties.1980 - 1994.
  •   Other experience prior to starting Goodman Group, Inc. include:

    •  Rockwell International. Manager, in charge of designing and developing hardware and software for worldwide message switching systems for government and commercial applications. International Sales Manager, Computer Systems Division, with substantial international travel and an overseas assignment in Paris. 1973 - 1977.
    •  Oak Ridge National Labs. Physicist, Systems Analyst, designing and implementing a computer network for data collection for fusion research and experimentation. 1971 - 1973.
    •  NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center. Physicist, rocket scientist, performing research in superconductivity. 1968 - 1970.

Computer & Internet Expertise

  •   Experienced Virtual Chief Operating Officer, Virtual COO, of Internet companies through Ceo Resource Services.
  •   Expertise with and thorough working knowledge of Internet and associated programs, including Front Page, direct HTML web page design and development along with PageMaker, PhotoShop, ImageReady, Illustrator, Premiere and Acrobat. Extensive experience with Internet research, video conferencing, telephony, multimedia, broadband, networking and communications.
  •   Expertise with Windows, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, QuickBooks.

Education

  •   Master of Business Administration degree, Presidential & Key Executive Program, Pepperdine University.
  •   Post graduate studies, Master of Science, Computer Science, University of Tennessee.
  •   Bachelor of Science degree, Engineering Physics, University of Tennessee.

 

 

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Name:

Robert

QTH:

Clearwater Beach, Florida and Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Call is AA5FR/4 when portable in Tennessee.

Locator:

EL87NO - FL,
EM85HS - TN

IOTA - NA34 - FL.

Rigs:

Yaesu FT-897D, usually running only 20 watts. My main HF rig at my base station on Sand Key Island.

Yaesu FT-857D. This is my mobile rig working with the ATAS-120.  Amazing result with the two - my first three contacts sitting in my Florida parking lot:  Northern Ireland, Slovakia and Ukraine. 

I also use the FT-857D as the main component of my "grab and go" "Shack-N-Bag" for easy portable operations.

Typically using a SignalLink USB for all the digital stuff - especially PSK-31. Timewave ANC-4 for noise control. Both are amazing devices worth their weight in DXCC certificates.

Auto antenna tuners:  The battery-powered LDG Z-11 Pro for the often portable FT-857D and a LDG AT-200 Pro for the usually stay-at-home FT-897D.

Antennae:

Above auto tuners with "KindaSorta" HF dipoles at 110 feet (35 meters)

Arrow II dual band VHF/UHF satellite yagi.  Also use two Advanced Receiver preamps:  SP432VDG for 435 MHz and SP144VDG for 144 MHz - both of which greatly improve the reception for most satellite passes and compensate for the low gain of the Arrow II and the LMR-195 feedline loss.

Arrow J-Pole for 144/440.

Yaesu ATAS-120a for mobile and portable operations - which does a surprisingly amazing job for both.  Best DX so far: Mobile from the top of the Smokies to VP8, Falkland Islands - with 10 watts - even at the bottom of this sunspot cycle.  I have gotten so many requests for info and photos on the ATAS antenna, I've created a separate page.  Click ATAS to see!

Interests:

Everything! including my wife (absolutely my #1 favorite way to spend my time), digital photography, Photoshop, mountain hiking, sailing, biking, scuba diving, computers, writing, helping start up companies really get started and, of course, ham radio!

Previous Calls:

WN4LEJ - Novice
WA4YFH - General
KD5SB - Advanced
AA5FR - Extra


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Email: 

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