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Kristen has been interested in radio since she was about 5 years old. When she
was small she built many radio kits including her favorite: the one tube radio
kit. She started in Amateur Radio around 1979 while she was at MIT by getting
her technician's license. She built a 2m repeater with an autopatch to use
while on campus at MIT. Somewhere in the middle of all this life intervened and
her license lapsed. She has recently been re-licensed getting her extra ticket.
She has recently held the call signs KG6OGQ and AE6KJ in rapid succession just
prior to K6WX, a vanity call. She is now active on 2m, 1.2GHz and is active on
HF with an Elecraft K2 she built while on vacation visiting her mother. Kristen
does most of her HF-ing mobile with the K2 and a screwdriver antenna or from
her apartment with a homebrew helical vertical dipole and an IC-756ProII
driving an SB-200. These days she loves to chase DX using mostly CW.
Kristen is ARRL Technical Coordinator for the East Bay Section and is president
of the Palo Alto Amateur Radio Association for 2007. She is also a member of
the following clubs: Palo Alto Amateur Radio Association, South Bay Amateur
Radio Association, USS Hornet Amateur Radio Club, Northern California DX Club,
Northern California Contest Club, FISTS CW Club (10232), and Young Ladies Radio
League. Kristen is also net control twice a week for the 9 am talk net:
http://www.9amtalk.net
Kristen is a long time denizen of Silicon Valley and has worked at or consulted
for many of the usual suspects.
Kristen's work bio:
Kristen McIntyre is currently a researcher at Sun Microsystems Laboratories
where she is researching robustness and emergent properties of large
distributed computer systems. Her career has spanned many diverse areas. She
started in the early 80's designing high power linear amplifiers and then spent
about 5 years in Japan architecting and designing precision analog test systems
as well as learning Japanese language and culture. Upon returning to the states
Kristen joined Adobe Systems and became one of the architects of PostScript
Level 2 and its RTOS underpinnings as well as the principal architect of
AppleTalk networking for PostScript printers. In the early 90's she became a
consultant and later founded an internet service provider and a network
consulting firm. In 1999 Kristen decided to hang up her entrepreneur's hat and
landed at Sun where she's been since. Kristen holds a B.S. from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
What follows is a history of the former holder of my callsign:
- In Memoriam -
Irvin Lawrence McNally - 30 November 1909 to 16 May 1998
Mac, as he was known to his friends, graduated from the University of Minnesota
in 1932 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He joined the
U.S. Navy and was a Radioman on the Battleship U.S.S. Pennsylvania (BB-38), a
Radio-Electrican Warrant Officer in charge of the Asiatic Fleet Radio School in
Cavite, Phillipine Islands and a Project Engineer at the Radar Branch of the
Bureau of Ships in Washington, D.C. He retired from the Navy with the rank of
Commander in 1956 and worked for the Raytheon Company in Wayland, Massachusetts
where he was the Manager of the Surface Radar Operation until his retirement in
1969. His retirement years were spent in Sun City, California where he was
active in the Riverside County RACES.
Mac was first licensed on 11 November 1935 as W6NDI. He also held the call
signs: KA1MN, XU7MN, W3JFH, W4KUJ, W1NCK and K6WX.
He was a member of the Quarter Century Wireless Association,the Society of
Wireless Pioneers, the Potomac Valley Radio Club, the Northeastern States 160
Meter Amateur Radio Association, the Philippine Amateur Radio Association, the
United States Naval Institute, the Institute of Navigation, the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Radio Relay League and the
Old Old Timers Club.
He is survived by his wife Gracie, his son Bill (N6MN), his daughter- in-law
Beverlee (N6FDG) and his grand-daughter Colleen.
He will be missed by his family and by his many friends.
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