Forum Bios

K1SFA

S Khrystyne Keane

http://www.qrz.com/db/K1SFA

I consider myself very lucky -- as ARRL News Editor, I get to work with Amateur Radio all day. On the weekends, I get to get on the air. I usually operate from K1TTT in Peru, Massachusetts. I operated my first non-M/M contest -- ARRL RTTY RU -- in January 2009 (M/S using K1TTY), coming in #6 W/VE and winning the New England Division Multi-Operator High Power category with a score of 162,540. I also participated in the 2009 BARTG Sprint (MO using K1SFA), setting the USA Record with a score of 462,672.

In 2009 -- my first year of RTTY contesting -- not only did I do the above, but I won the OK RTTY Contest with a score of 1,486,494. In the SARTG RTTY Contest, I placed #6 for SOAB and #4 for 20 meters. We placed #7 in the Russian WW RTTY Contest with a score of 946,85o and #4 in the SCC RTTY Contest with a score of 439,803. In all of these, K1SFA was the top USA station in the contest!

Look for K1SFA to do even better in 2010!

I'll also operating M/M (using K1TTT) in ARRL DX CW and ARRL DX SSB, CQWW RTTY, CQWW CW and CQWW SSB, as well as the NE England QSO Party (NEQP) and IARU World Championships. I also operate M/M from K1TT (using NE1C) for CQ WPX SSB.

I am Membership Manager for the #1 contest club in the USA - Yankee Clipper Contest Club (YCCC). I am also trustee for the Fr James P McCaffrey Memorial Radio Station (KB1RLY). I'm a member of the Laird Campbell Memorial HQ Operators Club (W1HQ) and the Newington Amateur Radio League (NARL).

73 and KB!!!

N6PSE

Paul S Ewing

Paul Ewing-N6PSE has been an amateur radio operator and DXer for 26 years. This past year his 11 year old Son and 22 year old daughter also became Amateur Operators. They are N6RYN and KJ6DOM.

Paul loves to travel and operate from remote locations in what he calls "Micro-DXpeditions". Paul has operated from all over Europe , including the UK, France, Italy , Turkey, Cyprus , Dodacanese, Egypt as well as most of the Caribbean including Puerto Rico, USVI, St. Lucia, Barbados as well as Grand Cayman . Paul has also operated from Vietnam .

Leading the YI9PSE-Kurdistan 2010 DXpedition was Paul's first foray into leading DXpeditions-but won't be his last. Paul is already planning for even more rare/exotic locations for next year.

W6ROD

Rod Stafford

Rod Stafford, W6ROD, serves as Secretary of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU). The IARU is an organization of 162 national amateur radio societies from around the world. He has also been very involved with Amateur Radio issues within the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Region 2 organization, and has held the position of Region 2 Secretary from 2001 to 2004 and President of IARU Region 2 from 2004 to 2007. Stafford also served as a Director of IARU Region 2 from 1998 to 2001. Stafford has attended numerous IARU regional conferences and IARU Administrative Council meetings.

An Extra class licensee, Stafford first obtained his Amateur Radio license in the mid-70s, and held previous call signs WD6AKS and KB6ZV.

He is a former Section Manager for the Santa Clara Valley Section, and a former Pacific Division Director. He has held the position of Second Vice President, First Vice

President, and then was President of the League from 1995 to 2000. Stafford served as ARRL Int'l Affairs Vice President from 2000 to January, 2010.

His interests in Amateur Radio extend to HF operation and VHF/UHF operation.

Stafford serves Amateur Radio as a volunteer. He is a retired Superior Court Judge from Santa Clara County, California. He has been on the bench since May, 1988 and spent 21 years hearing cases in the Criminal Division. Stafford is a graduate of San Diego State University and University of Santa Clara, School of Law. Since retirement in 2009, Stafford continues to work part-time in the Santa Clara Superior Court, Criminal Division.

In addition to amateur radio, Stafford enjoys photography and golf.

His wife Pat is licensed as N1PAT. His granddaughter is Vickie KI6GNT.

K6JAT

Jim Tiemstra
Vice Director

http://www.qrz.com/db/K6JAT

Jim Tiemstra was born in Ridgewood, N.J. on July 21, 1955. He obtained his first Amateur Radio license, WN9ELU, in Chicago in 1970. Since then Jim has held General, Advanced and Extra Class licenses and the callsigns: WB9ELU, N6OIK, V26JAT and 3D2TJ, as well as having operated as PJ2/K6JAT and KH6/K6JAT, and from V26DX.

At Lyons Township High School in La Grange, Illinois, Jim became the president of the Radio Club which held the callsign of W9SW and was equiped largely with World War II surplus radio equipment. Jim built his own gear mostly from Heathkits. In 1977, Jim married his wife Lilah Greene, KE6EHD, and they moved to California. (They have twin boys, Robert and Matthew, KI6IHP, born in 1994.)

While Jim's favorite Ham Radio pastimes are contesting, DXing and DXpeditions, he has long been involved in the public service aspects of the hobby. As a member of the Oakland ARES group, Jim responded to the Loma Prieta Earthquake (1989) and Oakland Hills Firestorm (1991) disasters. Subsequently, the group successfully championed a proposal to use post-firestorm, bond Measure I funds to acquire and install amateur radio equipment in the City's Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and each of its 30 firestations dubbed the Emergency Communication Ham Operation (ECHO) system. He worked with the group to gain RACES recognition and was instrumental in forging a formal Letter of Understanding (LOU) with the City of Oakland.

Jim acted as Oakland's RACES Radio Officer for over 14 years and was the Section Emergency Coordinator (SEC) of the ARRL's East Bay Section from January 13, 2008 to June 21, 2009. At present, he serves as Vice Director of the ARRL's Pacific Division.

In 1998, Jim incorporated the Oakland Radio Communication Association (ORCA), an ARRL affiliated club, was a founding director and became its first president. He currently is a member of ORCA's board of directors and trustee of the club's callsign: WW6OR.

Most days, Jim can be found anywhere from DC to light from his shack, mobile or as DX. When not on the air, Jim practices law in downtown Oakland at his own firm: www.tiemlaw.com.

N2RHV

William Dale, Jr
Santa Clara Valley Section Manager

http://www.qrz.com/db/n2rhv

First licensed in New Jersey in 1993 as a No-Code Tech, I upgraded to General and Amateur Extra by 2001. I completed CERT training, Level 1 Emergency Communications and work Emergency Communications and public service events. I held the EC/RO position for Milpitas and I’m still active in Milpitas ARES/RACES. In 2001 I helped found the Milpitas Amateur Radio and Electronics Society (http://w6mlp.org) a Special Service Club, and serve as Affiliated Club Coordinator for the section. I teach Ham Radio and Electronics Workshop classes in Milpitas. See my blog at http://radioflier.blogspot.com.

KE6AFE

Cap Pennell

http://www.k6bj.org/shortskip/2009/SSMAY09.pdf

KM6LH

PAUL B WESLING

http://www.pdarrl.org/clubs/hpsvrc/wesling.html

Abstract/profile

In Christophe Léc uyer's book "Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970", it is clear that without ham radio, none of this would have happened -- the Santa Clara Valley would likely have remained an agricultural area. "Silicon Valley" would have been in New York or New Jersey. Paul Wesling will relive some of the developments from the 1930's, when local hams re-invented around the RCA patents on tubes, won Navy contracts during WW II, then developed the vacuum technology that became the cornerstone for vapor-phase epitaxy, the key technology for the transistor and planar IC processes. Isaac Asimov said this was "the most important moment since man emerged as a life form,"

Perhaps with a bit of exageration. Paul (KM6LH) was present at the dedication of an IEEE Engineering Milestone plaque in Palo Alto last spring on the 50th anniversary of the development of the planar process at Fairchild Semiconductor. He is an engineering graduate of Stanford, and is communications director and editor/webmaster for the SF Bay Area IEEE.

Ms. Wendy Walsh

Citizen Corps Manager

Ms. Wendy D. Walsh serves as a Citizen Corps Program Specialist, and for the past six years, she has worked closely with the States of California, Nevada, Hawaii, Arizona and the Pacific Territories to better prepare citizens. She currently serves as the President of the Monterey County Citizen Corps Council. Walsh also worked in close partnership with Civil Rights & Civil Liberties to address the emergency preparedness concerns of people with disabilities.

She also worked eleven years for Developmental Services supporting individuals with disabilities. She assisted in emergency and disaster preparedness planning and exercises as well as served as the information officer for a large developmental center. In this capacity she assisted in various legal and land issues from historical registration and migrant farm worker housing to water and agricultural development.

W6NBC

JOHN E PORTUNE

http://www.qrz.com/db/W6NBC

My career has been in broadcast television, principally for KNBC channel 4 Los Angeles, Ampex Corporation, Redwood City CA, Sony Electonics, San Jose, CA as a technical instructor/writer.

Check out my Web Site: www.w6nbc.com

I have been a ham since 1965, as WB6ZCT, G5AJH, AA6NG and now W6NBC and still have my British call M0GCK, I have been active on all bands 160 Meters to 2.4 GHz. My current interests are assisting new licensees, local 2M and 440 mobile, and 40M Mobile as a part of RVing, which I do a lot of.

I am single, have three married children, and 12 grandchildren. I retired in 2002.

I am active in digital photography, Web Site design, cribbage, pipe organs, Elks, and steam railroading, and I LOVE sushi.

W6IIQ

David J Burbidge ARES Coordinator

First licensed in 1953 as KN4CLL – Novice: Upgraded to General 1954 K4CLL. Was active all those years. Moved to Switzerland in 1989 and became HB9IIQ. Then back to the US in 1999 and got the vanity call W6IIQ since “IIQ” is so good on CW. In real life he has been a professor of business administration, consultant, business owner, scuba instructor, on the USA Board of Directors for Rugby and lots of other neat things along the way.

WB9VXY

Thomas T Tengdin

First licensed as a code Technician when a student at Purdue University in the 70’s. In addition to ham ticket, he also holds a private pilots license for both airplanes and helicopters and is a Navy certified Deep Submergence Vehicle Operator.

Presently an Amateur Extra he has worked in computer networking, robotic oceanographic research, and is now working in the merchant power business. His present amateur interests include Linux based APRS and field day power systems.

Topic: Emergency Power Sources. This talk will review the current and voltage issues related to shack and portable emergency power. Solar, wind, inverters, engine generators will also be discussed. In addition metering, monitoring and testing equipment will also be covered. The core premise of the talk is to provide and “Icebergs and Lighthouses” overview of the issues to help users make informed decisions that fit their particular needs.

KN6FR

ERIC J LAGERSTROM

Instructor Biography:

Professor Eric J. “Rick” Lagerstrom is Amateur Extra Class licensee KN6FR. He is a University Professor, Technical Trainer, and registered ARRL Instructor. He was recognized as ARRL’s Instructor of the Year, 1996/1997, receiving the Herb S. Brier Award in 1997. He has taught over 2,000 students in ham radio classes, ham crams, in K-12, Lyceum classes, home schooling associations, and other venues. He is an ARRL Level III Emergency Communicator, a registered Disaster Service Worker, and is the Emergency Coordinator for the City of Seaside. In 1994, he founded CARTOG, the Coast Amateur Radio Training & Operations Group and serves as Executive Director. He has been the President of ECTAR, Inc. (501.c.3) since 2002, served three terms as President of NPSARC and has been the Director of Training and Operations since 1993.

Professor Rick is a retired US Army Major, and an honor graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He has a BA in Foreign Languages and Economics from South Dakota State University, and an MBA with high honors in Telecommunications Management from Golden Gate University. He is currently a Candidate for the Doctor of Business Administration at Golden Gate University, working on his dissertation with an Organizational Behavior and relationship dynamics focus that includes amateur radio. He has completed over 4,600 hours of advanced technical and academic training in various fields, including telecommunications, business, contracting, industrial management, GPS, GIS, technology, IT, and automation systems.

Professor Rick has over 40 years experience as a professional educator, receiving the Golden Gate University Distinguished Faculty Award in 2006. He has nearly 40 years of experience in communications, and extensive experience as a contracting and industrial management officer since 1981. He is a chief executive, board member, or director of several non-profit and public service organizations. He has either worked with or owned several small businesses, retail stores, and professional offices in several countries and states. He is a senior systems analyst in the fields of telecommunications, information technologies, remote sensing, GPS/GIS integration, leadership training, and organizational effectiveness. He has traveled and worked in all 50 states and in 42 countries. He is a widely published, internationally recognized, and award-winning professor, instructor, and consultant, and is an active public speaker. He has numerous hobbies and interests, is an avid distance swimmer, and remains RadioActive, helping hams and others discover ham radio and become RadioActive in the many activities and events of Amateur Radio.

Radiofest Monterey Bay |2010

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March, 20 & 21 2010