Best address for K4VUD QSLs is via HS0ZCW.

B&W photo is from 1979 when the Drake TR-7 was king.

K4VUD has a fraction of his contacts entered into LOTW and has thousands of QSOs on paper logs waiting data entry.

K4VUD, Charly, is a college teacher of motion pictures and a film-maker. He is founding general editor of the HISTORY OF AMERICAN CINEMA ten-volume book series published by Scribner and the University of Calif. Press. He is making a documentary film about Buddhism's diaspora with footage he gathered from Tibet/China, Nepal, Bhutan, Laos, India, and Thailand. One completed film is titled "Boy Buddhist of Bhutan" and another is "One Face of AIDS." He is currently editing his footage of Tibetan refugees who left their homeland to escape Chinese religious restrictions.  The first one is on YouTube, title is "TIBETANS SEEK BUDDHIST FREEDOM."

He stopped teaching at the University of Central Florida in Orlando and at Mahidol U. (2006-2011) retired from  Program Advisor and Professor of the Entertainment Media B.A. Program at Mahidol University near Bangkok, Thailand. Charly holds the call signs of K4VUD, 9N7UD, HS0ZCW, VU3CHE, and V26V. His former call sign of 9N1UD is replaced with a 9N7 which is now the prefix given to foreign hams licensed in Nepal. He is co-sponsor of the effort to establish a 9N1MM memorial club station in Kathmandu to honor Father Moran (sk) and help make more Nepali native hams.  He obtained E2E for the RAST as a club call sign.

Charly has operated as VU4AN/VU3CHE, XW1UD, A52UD, /SV9, /KP2, /VE, and at HS72B, HS0AC, 4U1UN and HS98AG. He has traveled to Bhutan (A5) three times, and was the first to xmit 1000 watts in his activation of Bhutan on "the low bands" in the first 12 days of Dec. 2000 (tnx Glen J.!).

He visited VU4 Andaman I. summer 2001 to scout locations for a VU4 DXpedition. He was with VU4RBI Dec. of 2004 when she activated Andaman Islands for the first time since 1987. A sponsor of this DXpedition, Charly has made numerous presentations about the VU4 DXpedition at hamfests and disaster communication seminars.

He endured the Dec. 2004 Asian 9.0 earthquake and tsunami when on Andaman I. His articles about this experience are in issues of QST, CQ Magazine and DX Magazine. April 2006, he operated VU4AN/VU3CHE in Port Blair, Andaman Islands, topping his 9-year effort to activate VU4 personally. His article about this op is in the July 2006 issue of CQ MAGAZINE.

He has departed his Fla. QTH and now lives mostly in Thailand. See HS0ZCW for QSL info, etc. He has one Thailand shack in Samut Sakhon and an IC-775DSP in his home shack in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand.  Antennas are a HyGain Xmas Tree at 80' and a quad at 70' with two elements on 40, two on 30, and three el. on 17 and 12 meters.  No 80 nor 160.

K4VUD was one of five SSB hams licensed (WA2XSY-11) to test the establishment of the new 5MHz band, and on July 4, 2003, as K4VUD, he made the first ever two-way transatlantic contact (with England) on the newly-authorized 5.4 MHz band.

As K4VUD, Charly has won his class in several contests, including the ARRL 10 m, and was first from Nepal in CQ and ARRL contests (with his being the only 9N log submitted!). He is a member of the Florida Contest Group and life member of ARRL, RAST (Thailand) and NIAR, and one-time QCWA member. He holds DXCC on all but 160 and his mixed total is now 319. He is no longer active on the County Hunters Net as a mobile.

K4VUD was net control on the United Nations Radio Readiness Net during several hurricane emergencies and is pictured and reported in 1987 QST for this activity. He has been a member of SATURN and the National Weather Service Miami ham hurricane net (HWN).

Charly was faculty sponsor for the UCF Amateur Radio Club and trustee for K4UCF call sign (see Web site) and is license trustee for the Tibet Radio Club, call AC4TT (the AC4 in honor of Tibet's old prefix). He has written several articles for DX MAGAZINE, including one with detailed instructions on getting a license in Nepal (see dxpub.com). He can advise about relocation to Thailand.

Charly's second marriage is to Somjit from Thailand, and he has one adult son, Andrew, and two grand-daughters. Web page is www.charlesharpole.com (click on "More" for full list of short essays) and email is k4vud@hotmail.com

Rev: K4VUD - Wed Nov. 25, 2009