Amateur Radio Licenses and Callsigns

Novice in 1963 at 15 as WN4PFQ

General in 1963 at 16 as WA4PFQ

Advanced and Extra Class licenses in 1970 at 22

Acquired the callsign N4UP when the FCC opened up the N-series callsigns

Amateur Radio Interests

160-6 meters mostly CW and DX and Contests

Former and Present QTH

Johns Island, South Carolina ( 1963 -1965 )

Auburn, Alabama

Charleston, South Carolina

Fort Collins, Colorado

Somerset, New Jersey

Manassas, Virginia

Clayton, North Carolina ( 2012 )

Degrees

1970 --- Electrical Enginering ( Auburn )

1973 --- Theoretical Physics ( Colorado State )

1984 --- Management ( Federal Executive Institute )

Career --- Retired in 2005

Process Control Research Engineer --- Westvaco

Active Duty US Air Force --- Physicist, Staff Scientist, Academic Instructor

Defense Department --- Program Director for Radiation Effects ( Defense Nuclear Agency )

Defense Department --- Created and managed the Pentagon's Global Effects Program ( Nuclear Winter )

Physical Research, Inc. --- Principal Research Scientist and Operations Manager for the Washington DC Office

U.S. Department of Energy --- 1990-1997 Program Director for Atmospheric Radiation ( climate change )

U.S. Department of Energy --- 1997-2005 Program Director for Atmospheric Science ( air quality )

U.S. Department of Energy --- Program Director for Global Change Education