Pictured above is a westward view of Puget Sound
and Olympic National Park via my home QTH (at 200' above sea level).
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I earned my Novice and General Class amateur radio licenses in 1990 thanks to great training classes led by W3WN (then-WN3VAW) at the Community College of Allegheny County (in Pittsburgh, PA), then my Advanced Class license in 1991, and eventually earned my Amateur Extra Class license in March, 2010.
My station is capable of (and typically operating on) 100% solar power via my 520-watt Kyocera PV system, since 2007.
And, I proudly use the first (#1) Vibrocube of thenew seriesfromVibroplex.Thanks Scott, W4PA, for a great key!
My station via Ustream (when on the air).
Riley (our cat) and I monitor many HF, VHF, and UHF freq's, and can typically be found on the 20, 40, 80 and 160 meter bands, within CW portions and on / around 14.250, 7.150,3.777 and 1.843 MHz, on the W7AW repeater at 441.800 MHz (Tone: 141.3hz) in west Seattle, and the K7PP repeater system at 443.400 MHz (Tone: 123hz) across western Washington. And, via DSTAR on various reflectors.Look for me on "Last Heard" at DSTARusers.org.
BTW, for DSTAR, since December 2012, I've been using two nifty Raspberry Picomputersto support my 70cm DVAP and other digitial modes. Weighing in at about 2 ounces and using only a few watts of (solar) power, they demonstrate that a few milliamperes of continuous operation can go many miles (or kilometers)! :)
When off the air, I serve as Dean of the B.A. Degree Completion Program in Liberal Studies at Antioch University Seattle. I am honored to work with a very talented faculty and staff team -- and our great students! Check us out!
Oh, and I volunteer for the Communications Team of the American Red Cross serving King & Kitsap Counties, WA.
Other club memberships over the years:
Jamaican Amateur Radio Association (JARA), (1991-1993);
