There are hams that have been around for half a century or more. Me, I'm not one of them. I'm a data networking guy who somewhere along the way thought radios were interesting - especially if you could take them to Voice Over IP.

Most of the amateur radio work I do comes in the form of disaster relief support for various organizations.

(Deployed on a Red Cross ECRV, Oklahoma City Tornadoes 5/2003)

(My "real job", Cisco Systems NERV Hurricane Ike 9/2008)

In the SF Bay Area, you can usually find me on the KU6V repeater system.

Equipment:

Mobile: Kenwood TM-D700

Home: Kenwood TS-2000/ Titan DX HF Antenna.

HT: TH-F6A

(Can you sense a theme?)

Emergency Comms Deployed: ICOM 7000, Yaesu 817