Primary modes of operation: CW and RTTY - contesting.

I retired from the Navy after 20 years of commissioned service in 1993. I started off my naval career as an aviator and soon shifted to the surface navy. My duty assignments were all very interesting and included; anti-submarine warfare, navigation, training, administration, MC&G (mapping,charting and geodesy), communications, and LAN/WAN networking. I still work full-time as a consultant for Verizon FiOS Lab.

My interest in ham radio started at a young age. In the seventh grade I won first place in a Science Fair with a "One Tube Radio" project. I never learned Morse Code as a Boy Scout, even though I started working on it a couple of times. In those days, baseball and band were my big interests and they overwhelmed scouting and other interests. Well, to make a long story short, I finally got into ham radio a few years after I retired from the Navy. I was licenced 02/20/1999, and by then my family was pretty much grown.(BTW - I have been married for over 35 years now!) I finally had the time and resources to set up a modest station.  I hold the eDX, eWAS, ePFX300, WAS and DXCC (mixed) awards. Memberships: ARRL,Potomac Valley Radio Club, FISTS, Laurel Amateur Radio Club, Prince George's County ARES/RACES. 73, Bill