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For what it's worth I am a 15 wpm ragchew CW op. I don't work DX except accidentally and I don't watch the DX reflectors at all. If you are visiting because someone using my call (K3VV) has insulted you, please contact me at rice@world.std.com with details.

I have appended a list of forged "K3VV" posts below my bio. I would like to thank Vladimir, UA4WHX/9X0VB for bringing this to my attention.

Apologies for the distasteful digression -- back to the bio.

This is a picture of me (K3VV, Ken Rice) and Roger, an Arabian dromedary camel who kindly ferried me around the Queensland outback a few years back.

YF Lisa (who took the picture above) and I live on a shady, tumbledown farm (ca. 1789) in northern Bucks County Pennsylvania, about 50 miles north of Philly. We raise bluetick coonhounds, chickens, ducks, and geese. More to the point, we cultivate an unruly pack of "feral" antennas. Most recently we put up two 135-foot OCF dipoles facing NS and EW.

Lisa and I are computational biology/biochemistry scientists for two pharmaceutical companies in the Philly-Princeton-Bridgewater area.

I've been active off and on since 1963. Ex-calls are WN4LDE, WA4LDE and W3LDE.

My Elmer was Clarence White, W4KR (SK), a gentleman of a vanished era and a first-rank engineer and operator who put the 50 KW clear channel station WSB on the air. Clarence got me started in ham radio with a five-dollar ARC-5 40Mreceiver and a homebrew power supply that he showed me how to build.

Most importantly, Clarence taught me the fundamentals of the scientific method. I am almost certain that I would not be a scientist today if Clarence had not served up such convincing and appealing presentations of the scientific method in 1962 and 1963. Thanks and RIP, Clarence.

I work HF CW pretty much exclusively, often on 40, 30, and 20 meter QRP frequencies. I caught the QRP bug a few years back, and I run 5 watts most of the time. My field rig is an Elecraft K1 built meticulously by Fil Fuma, a good friend and another first-rank engineer.

A used Elecraft K2 is a fairly recent addition to the shack. Recently Fil Fuma built a KPA100/KAT100 in an EC2 case to go along with the K2. Fil does outstanding work.

I am two states removed from a long-term, self-defined goal that as far as I know is recognized by no sanctioning organization: "The 30-minute-or-more unscheduled CW ragchew WAS". (Need AK and HI.)

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope to see you on the QRP frequencies.

73,

Ken

Following is a list of forged postings current as of 14 June 2007:

K3VV 7013.0 6Y5WJ "_ . . . .!!!!!!!" 0016 23 Aug 2006

K3VV 14260.0 YX5IOTA "Booming!" 2335 28 Sep 2006

K3VV 14090.0 P29AZD "NOT long path!!" 1142 29 Sep 2006

K3VV 7021.9 FM5WD "Correction!" 1037 07 Oct 2006

K3VV 14000.0 RA0FU/P "As requested" 1037 07 Oct 2006

K3VV 7017.6 KL7J "" 0320 09 Oct 2006

K3VV 1800.0 NI1N "Wow, cld a lid 2 times 2day!!" 1251 09 Nov 2006

K3VV 21025.0 6Y1V "Lids can'tcopy a \"6\"" 1358 27 Jan 2007

K3VV 14000.0 DX0/1S "Unless you are in NA!!" 0205 05 Feb 2007

K3VV 1800.0 4W6AAV "Another stupid ASIAN exp." 1419 02 Jun 2007

K3VV 1800.0 9X0VB "2 bad he has a bad license!!" 0026 13 Jun 2007