Previous calls: W8IBX, W3DPR, WA2LDX, F0EPT, W8IQ/VE3, FP/W8IQ

I came on the air as WN8IBX, Columbus, Ohio, at the end of November, 1955. My "Elmers" were Glen, W8DWP, Barney, W8AAU, and my high school principal, Ed, W8BHE. My father became KN8ANX in January, 1956. We enjoyed ham radio together and hoped to use it back and forth after I grew up and moved out. Unfortunately Dad became  a sudden SK in October, 1964, due to health.

I passed the General Class exam before Dick Cotton in Columbus, the Advanced Class exam before Dick Cotton at the FCC office in Detroit (while fire trucks blew their sirens down on the streets) and the Extra Class exam in 1969 in New York City right while I was completing my Master's Degree work.

Around 1980 I was a missionary in Cameroon where I was denied a license but visited the station of a TJ on several occasions.

Chief interests over the years have been DX and contests pursued with low power and wire antennas much of the time.

I have lived in Toledo since 1984 where I am a Lutheran pastor semi-retired.