*1976: WNØVFW novice test under the supervision of Ron, WAØOGS.

*1976: WBØVFW (FCC Eliminated WN calls).

*1977: upgrade to tech. at the St. Paul FCC office.

*1985: 13WPM and Advanced exam. Sauk Rapids, MN - ARRL VEC

*1999: WØBGP (vanity call)

*2000: ABØPS (Dec) Extra exam in St.Paul - ARRL VEC

*2001: KØUC (Jan)-vanity call

*1979: General Radiotelephone (First Class Radiotelephone) commercial license

My amateur radio interests are working HF CW and RTTY modes and some SSB. Also 10/6/2/70cm FM and some SSB/CW on 6/2/70cm. My wife Jerrie is KØJER. Jerrie and I work some contests together. I enjoy building and repairing anything electronic and working with computers. Picture above is from the "old" shack in Savage, MNI wish I still looked that young.  Time for an updated "old-timer" picture.

I'm a communications officer in Civil Air Patrol/USAF Auxiliary, doing comm. training and working comm in missions and exercises.

I've worked as a radio broadcast engineer, computer (mainframe) programmer and for the past 15+ years as a LAN/WAN and telephony engineer. I'm employed as an IP telephony network engineer with a major bank.

Station gear includes a Yaesu FT-897,  Kenwood TS-690, Drake C-line and Drake TR-7. FM rigs include a UHF Motorola Syntor X9000, Yaesu FT-78000's, Kenwood TK-730, some Motorola HTs, UHF Maxtrac, UHF CDM1550, a Yaesu FT-470, Yaesu FT-50, Midland Syntech mobile for 6m FM, a pair of Alinco DR 570 mobile rigs (retired) and Yaesu FT212 mobile (mostly retired). I enjoy tinkering with the rigs as much (if not more) than using them. 

My 2 grown children are Doug and Crystal.  Austin came along in Aug. 2006.  He's the jr. op.  and is a terror in the shack and at the bench.  He loves the gadgets.  He's often 3rd party traffic with Mom or Dad. 

Moved to SW Mpls in Aug. 2004. And then to Rochester MN in Aug. 2010.  My favorite city on earth! 

My son Doug, is KDØCUO. New ham in 2008.

Affiliated clubs: TCRC, SEMARC, ARRL, NLRS

KØUC 12/10