Nate Garner

Garner with the Dolphins in 2009
No. 75
Position:	Offensive tackle
Personal information
Born:	(1985-01-18) January 18, 1985 El Sobrante, California, U.S.
Height:	6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Weight:	320 lb (145 kg)
Career information
High school:	Little Rock (AR) Robinson
College:	Arkansas
NFL Draft:	2008 / Round: 7 / Pick: 211
Career history
New York Jets (2008)* Miami Dolphins (2008–2014)
* Offseason and/or practice squad member only
Career NFL statistics
Games played: 74 Games started: 19
Player stats at NFL.com · PFR

Nathaniel W. Garner (born January 18, 1985) is a former Division 1 College & NFL professional American football offensive lineman, who mostly played offensive line, especially tackle.^[1] Nate began his career with the University of Arkansas Razorbacks of the NCAA just a few years before being drafted by the New York Jets as the seventh round draft pick of the 2008 NFL Draft.^[2] Nate was eventually traded to the Miami Dolphins, where he spent the remainder of his professional playing career.^[1]

Following his seventh and final year of playing in the NFL, in 2018 Nate later became an NFL volunteer assistant coach and scout for the New Orleans Saints. Afterwards, Nate became an Offensive Line assistant at his former college, the University of Arkansas. Nate later returned to Florida as an offensive line consultant with Royal Palm Beach High School before then being hired as the offensive line coach for both the St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, and ASA College's Miami campus where he also ended up working as a run game coordinator for ASA College during the remainder of the 2019–2020 season. Nate also helped lead the St. Thomas Aquinas High School football program to a state championship near the same time.^[1]

High School & College Career

Nate attended Pulaski Robinson High School (later renamed Joe T. Robinson High School)^[3] just outside the city limits of Little Rock, Arkansas. Throughout his early high school career, Nate got selected for the PrepStar All-Region IV Team.^[4] He was ranked as the Number 138 offensive lineman prospect in the nation by Insiders.com.^[4] Following graduation from high school, Nate enrolled into the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, and later got accepted into the University of Arkansas where he played offensive line for the Razorbacks football team. Nate's most common position throughout the entirety of his high school, college, and professional playing career was offensive tackle.^[1]

In 2007 Nate had successfully graduated from both the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences majoring in Sociology, and the University of Arkansas with a Bachelor's degree also in Sociology.^[1]

Professional career

Following graduation, Nate obtained both of his Sociology degrees, one from J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences as a major, and one at the University of Arkansas as a Bachelor, where he was soon drafted to the National Football League's New York Jets as the seventh round pick in the 2008 NFL Draft. As aforementioned in the previous section, Nate played the same position(s) as he always used too throughout high school and college, that was Offensive line, mostly as a tackle.^[1]

Towards the middle to nearing the end of his professional playing career, Nate was traded to the Miami Dolphins where he remained throughout the duration of his professional playing career until he became an NFL volunteer assistant coach and scout for the New Orleans Saints in 2018.^[1]

When Nate returned to Florida as an offensive line consultant with Royal Palm Beach High School starting in late 2018, he hasn't since worked for any other NFL, or other professional American football team since. Instead, Nate would go on to continue working several coaching & staff positions at two high schools and a college, with Nate commonly bouncing back and forth all across the Southeast for a while.^[1]

Personal life

Info regarding Nate's personal life and the latest events he's participated in are quite limited and are mostly anonymous.

Amateur Radio Involvement

It has been discovered that Nate appears to enjoy and is an actively participating and a common experimentalist Amateur Radio operator. According to the Federal Communications Commission; Nate was first licensed in early 2021 as a Technician class license holder with the auto-lottery callsign system issuing him his first callsign: KO4LBT. A callsign is a unique assigned station identifier linked within usually federal government authorized database(s); That person's identification, personal information, and allowed frequency privilege's are associated with their currently authorized and assigned callsign(s).^[1]

As of April, 2023 Nate has appeared to have passed both his General and Amateur-Extra class license tests according to the FCC's Universal Licensing System (ULS), this means Nate is now fully authorized to access and legally utilize all currently allowed frequencies from within the FCC's or ITU's Region II district allocations with absolutely zero-restrictions now being an Amateur-Extra.^[5] The United States FCC's boundaries do not proceed any closer than from within around 2 or so US-miles from the ITU Region Two (II) borders.

According to Nate's profile's biography on the popular amateur radio social-media website QRZ.com, the 2nd callsign he got after passing and obtaining his General class license was N4TEY.^[6] Ever since mid-June, 2021 and as of April, 2023, Nate has continued to remain with his Amateur-Extra-class exclusive-format callsign: NG2A.^[5]

Also on his QRZ.com profile biography, it mentions the current equipment he uses for transmitting and receiving HF, and as of April 19, 2023, his biography says that his primary equipment include the popular Icom IC-7300 HF Transceiver (Transmitter and receiver combined), an MFJ 40-meter band (7 - 7.3 MHz / ITU Region: II) Off-Center-Fed Dipole antenna put up in his home's attic due to complications and warnings by his home's local HOA (Homeowners Association), due to possible height, health, and property damage hazards, or aviation restrictions if he were to set up the antenna outside of his house.^[7] For a dedicated back up-rig, Nate uses a Yaesu brand, model: FT-857D Portable all-mode, all-band, HF 160-meters to VHF 2-meter and UHF 70-centimeters HF/VHF/UHF "All-in-one" Portable radio.^[8] The European version 857D excludes Europe's own 4 & 8 meter-bands and also the US version excludes US & Canada-only's exclusive 1.25-meter band (222 MHz) allocations. The USA and surrounding countries leading into Europe, have started adding an extra 2 MHz section expanding the 2-meter allocation in ITU Region 1 from 144–146 to 144-148 MHz as a means of a countries personal-doing and not a federal allocation. The 857D transceiver is also capable of transmitting and receiving voice, non-voice, & weak-signal narrowband digital modes (Like WSJT-x, PSK31, etc.) with a few options for the standard modulation emission type-choices which include the standard AM, FM, SSB (USB/LSB), and options for narrowband AM & FM.^[8]

For more details about his license, or if you want to view his biography yourself, you can visit his QRZ.com profile here at:https://qrz.com/db/ng2a.^[7]

Note: that without a registered and approved ham radio account which requires a valid license, many details about his licensing specifics and otherwise personal information will remain hidden all over the platform.^[9]

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