I was first licensed as KN1BOW/K1BOW (Novice and Technician) in 1957 at the age of 14. I upgraded to General just in the nick of time to retain h.f. privileges. (This was back when the Novice license was one year, non-renewable). At the time I lived in Lexington Massachusetts. Following college and service in the Peace Corps I moved to Seattle for graduate study in 1967. In those days you had to get a new call when you moved between US call areas, and I held W7FHK for five years. Back to Massachusetts and W1GSJ in 1972. At that point I upgraded to Extra, and when the opportunity to choose your own call came along (1976?) I opted for N1AW, which I have held since then. Between 1985 and 1997 I made a number of visits to Nicaragua where I taught in two different universities. In 1990 I operated as N1AW/YN1, and then in 1993 I was issued YN1ASW.

I'm an active member of the Franklin County (MA) Amateur Radio Club, and one of the webmasters of the website, http://www.fcarc.org. I enjoy c.w. operation, and low-key contesting such as Field Day. I used an HW-8 in the 2009 ARRL CW Sweepstakes contest, and feel that 65 contacts in 8 hours operation was a satisfactory result.