I was licensed as KN9LIO in 1958 in the old Novice up or out days and suffered a great deal of anixety until I upgraded to General that fall.  I was quite active as K9LIO in contests and DXing until 1964 when I moved away from home.  After that I was sporadically active until 1998.  I upgraded to Extra as AB1J in 1978 and was active again until about 1983 when raising two lovely daughters and my job in the computer industry took up all my time.  In 1998, while convalescing from an illness with a lot of spare time on my hands, I got back in again and have been active ever since and enjoy it more than ever.  Mostly I chase DX and do some contesting.  In the spring of 2008 I partially retired so I had more time than ever for amateur radio along with other hobbies.  My latest enthusiasm is RTTY.  Got started half way through the CQ WW RTTY in 2008 and have been devoting most of my time to RTTY ever since.  It's like starting out all over again. 

QSL Policy: I like to get QSLs and am in the process of applying for a number of awards, so the more, the merrier.  I also like SWL cards and will answer them.

Direct is welcome. Please provide SASE or SAE + return postage.

I upload all QSOs to LoTW and eQSL (AG) and am working my way back through older logs to upload them too. These are handwritten logs and the process is slow and error prone.  I'm making my lists and checking them twice.

Soapbox:  I think all serious ops, contesters, DXers and award chasers, should use both LoTW and eQSL.  They each have their strengths and weaknesses.  All eQSL users should get AG status.  eQSL is especially useful for looking into LoTW, which is otherwise a black box.  I've seen QSO matches go missing in LoTW because someone has submitted the wrong year, month, day, time or mode.  When these QSOs are also submitted to eQSL, I have a chance to figure out the problem.  Otherwise, I don't know what I don't know.

Bureau QSLs are welcome.  Currently I am caught up with my bureau QSLing.  I apologize to all those who sent me cards in the last few years and haven't received replies yet but they are in the mail now.  Recently I joined GlobalQSL and am using it exclusively for bureau QSLing.

73,

Kermit, AB1J