I will make an effort to upload my logs periodically to the ARRL for your LoTW confirmation. I currently do not accept eQSL.
My "radio career" began at an early age as I vividly remember getting my first pair of walkie talkies as a Christmas gift around age 5. During the late seventies, and after several sets of walkie talkies and several years later, I hijacked an old CB radio from the family car.
While in high school I spent many evenings talking to the locals and dreaming of working the "skip" that I'd hear. Eventually several of my friends decided to take the amateur radio exam and talked me into joining them. Everybody passed and on January 5,
1985 my first license arrived in the mail. That afternoon in a driving snowstorm, a dipole was strung from the roof of my parent's house out to some trees. It was official, KA9SYF was on the air!
DXing has always been my passion. From the early days of hearing those distant signals on 11 meters to present day, there is still magic in being able to talk to somebody half way around the world.
Over the course of the last 20+ years I've managed to achieve DXCC Honor Roll only needing 3Y0/B and KP1 for #1 Honor Roll - both of which I missed during my college years. I've also been an active DX cluster sysop since the early days, putting my first node on the air in 1994 and today keeping busy with the DX Central website (http://www.dxcentral.com).
I am also the DX Columnist for World Radio magazine.
I've had the good fortune of being able to operate a few contests from "The Other Side" andover the course of the last few years, I havespent some on a DX rental QTH on the island of Bonaire (http://www.villadesertpalm.com). If you happen to hear me on the air, please stop and say "HI".
DXPEDITIONS & CONTESTS
Turks & Caicos
• VP5/N0VD Portable operation holiday style
• VP5X Team member 2004 CQWW SSB Contest - M/S HP, #1 Caribbean/Central America
• VP5D 2005 ARRL 10M Contest - SO LP Mixed, #2 World 2006 ARRL 10M Contest - SO LP CW Only, #3 World
Grenada
• J3A Team member 2005 CQWW SSB Contest - M/M HP, #8 North America
Curacao/Bonaire
• PJ2/N0VD Portable operation holiday style
• PJ4/N0VD Portable operation holiday style 2008 CQWW SSB Contest - M/S LP, #9 South America
• PJ4E Team member 2006 CQWW SSB Contest - M/S HP, #4 World 2007 CQWW SSB Contest - M/2 HP, #4 World
• PJ2T Team member 2009 WPX SSB Contest - M/2 HP, #2 World 2009 CQWW SSB Contest - M/M HP, #1 World 2010 ARRL CW Contest - M/M HP, #1 World, New South American Record 2011 ARRL CW Contest - M/M HP, #1 Claimed + New DX World Record
• PJ4D Team member 2010 New DXCC DXpedition - 10-22 October, 2010
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While in high school I spent many evenings talking to the locals and dreaming of working the "skip" that I'd hear. Eventually several of my friends decided to take the amateur radio exam and talked me into joining them. Everybody passed and on January 5,
1985 my first license arrived in the mail. That afternoon in a driving snowstorm, a dipole was strung from the roof of my parent's house out to some trees. It was official, KA9SYF was on the air!
