I was first licensed at age 11 in 1963 as KN3VOT, a few years after my dad received K3SJK. After my novice year I upgraded to Technician and spent a few years on 6 meter AM. Later, in high school, the DX bug bit and I upgraded to General and then to Advanced, concentrating my operating time on 40, 20 and 15 meter CW. During this time I was active in two local radio clubs, the Susquehanna Valley Amateur Radio Club and the Shamokin (PA) Radio Club. I upgraded to Extra in 1988 and held the call NG3R until vanity licensing allowed me to re-obtain K3VOT.

After high school I attended the Pennsylvania State University receiving a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1974. Following graduation I held a few odd jobs and spent one summer working for Hughes Aircraft Co in Los Angeles, CA. returning to Penn State in 1976 to pursue a master's degree.

In 1978 I accepted employment with Greenray Industries in Mechanicsburg, PA where I began to learn the art and science of designing and building crystal oscillators. In 1980 I moved to State College, PA and accepted employment with EMF Systems. While at EMF I designed a wide range of oscillator products nearly spanning the frequency range from DC to light. These included crystal oscillators, phase-locked oscillators, frequency synthesizers, wideband VCO's, DRO's, crystal filters and receiver multicouplers.

From 1992 until 2004 I was employed by Murata Electronics where I was engineering manager in the crystal oscillator department.  From 2004 until 2006 I worked at Paradise Datacomm designing satellite earth station equipment;    2006 until 2010 at Spectrum Microwave where I was engineering manager for the State College engineering group.

Since March 2010 I have been employed by Locus Microwave where I design satellite earth station equipment.

I am a member of IEEE, ARRL and the Nittany Amateur Radio Club.

My technical interests are building and experimenting with frequency sources of all types and low-noise receiving techniques.