Thanks for taking a look! See below for picture descriptions. I was first licensed shortly after my 15th birthday in 1955. My Elmer was W8HNX who lived a block away in our Cincinnati neighborhood. I had been an SWL and broadcast band DX'er since age 12 when I lived with grandparents who had a Zenith Transoceanic . My novice station in 1955 was a kit-built Viking Adventurer and an SX-99. By the summer of 1956, my family had moved to Washington, D.C., and trembling, I climbed the steps to the country's largest FCC building and passed my General exam. I was issued the call, W3IFA. After caddying that summer and birthday presents, I was the owner of a used Viking II, but also an Ameco AC-1 which was the beginning of my love affair with QRP.

A year later I obtained a Gonset Communicator II and became a weak signal VHFer which remains to this day my main interest. Over the years, I've been licensed as KN8BAJ, W3IFA, K1UGQ, WB2LNA, W2CRS, W0AH and V31AH and now K4LY. Besides weak signal VHF, microwave, and HF QRP, I enjoy contesting and restoring and operating old equipment. I presently operate160 meters to 10 GHz. From 1957 until 1974, I worked 24 states from Biddeford Pool, Maine, as K1UGQ on two meters and was the Maine states worked leader from operating there just the month of August. Operating the Perseids meteor shower, beginning in 1962, was the reason for my success, and I have operated the Perseids every year now for 48 years. I worked 37 states from two different locations in Schenectady County, NY, as W2CRS, and worked all 50 states from Woodland Park, Colorado, as W0AH. Some states and 44 countries were worked there on two meter EME with 4 x KLM 18LBX. . I've worked 40 states on two meters from here in SC without EME, and qualified for VUCC on 6, 2, 222, 432, 902, 1296, and 2304 although I may never get around to applying for it. Well, maybe I can apply on LOTW. Same with the 120 countries on 6M.

Ham radio only gets about one third of my free time. I also spend an equal amount of time on nature and wildlife, including teaching classes and photography; and on training and coaching others in senior games participation and competition including the sprints, race walks, throwing events, and jumps, including pole vault, and also cycling. I participate in the 70-74 age group in all of those. Until I lost a lot of lung capacity because of Alpha One COPD, a genetic variation of COPD (I do not smoke!), I was a distance runner and have run 48 marathons with a best time of 2:45 before age 40 and 2:46 as a master.

For HF, please QSL on LoTW or send SASE with your card After not applying for an award in over 40 years, I found I was within a few countries of 6BDXCC.After uploading 45,000 contest Qs to LoTW. I have 5BDXCC plaque 6689,one hundredpercent of QSLingon LOTW. I have almost never sent out QSLs, but do eventually return any cards with SASEs sent to me. Top band, 160, is my favorite HF babd, and I have worked over 200 countries there. I'm way behind on uploading the VHF contests and contacts, maybe this upcoming winter. I also hope to upload the same contest logs to eQSL some day.

If you want a paper card, please send an SASE. I sit down and return QSLs occasionally.

After 19 wonderful years at our Woodland Park, Colorado, hilltop location, just north of Pikes Peak, Judy and I have moved to a warmer clime, a hilltop, about 200' HAAT, in upstate SC just south of the NC line. I'm active on 160M- 10 gHz and continue to love contesting with top 10 finishes in CQWW, ARRL 160M, and ARRL VHF contests the pastfew years despite a modest antenna farm compared to the old Colorado QTH (see http://sites.google.com/site/dougw0ah/home).

I've been a student of climate and weather since age 11 when my favorite birthday present was the Department of Commerce (this was long before NOAA) daily weather maps. My undergraduate and graduate studies include almost equal credit hours in the humanities and in the sciences. For the past 4 years, I've spent about an hour a day studying the IPCC assessments, reading, and contributing to the climate blogs. I'm a very strong conservationist and a "luke warmer" when it comes to AGW. I'm a religious liberal, but a moderate politically, pragmatic center left, in a country where there are, tragically, few moderates left.

Besides the hobbies mentioned above, I also enjoy studying, reading, and writing and hope to some day find time to work on my butterfly and other nature oriented web pages -https://sites.google.com/site/southcarolinauplandbutterflies/home).

One picture below shows me operating 10 GHz from Windmill Hill where we live; another picture shows tower one with a 55 el 1296 LY at top, an ancient skeleton slot for 222, side by side LY for 902 and 2304 , and at the bottom, my KLM 18LBX 2M antenna; another picture shows tower two with the recently erected 8 x 5 el DPM144-LVA attached to the tower with a an M2 6M yagi and pair of M2 14 wl 432 yagis stacked above. The 8 DPM44-5LVA 5el yagis are fixed at 40 degrees northeast and cover the entire Atlantic coast west to the PA/OH line. I also have a Hygain Hytower, a seasonal 160M inverted L, and a small 3 el tribander that replaces the 6M beam for HF contests and some other wire antennas