First licensed in 1960 as WA4OTO, when I upgraded to Advanced I was assigned the call KC4MJ. In 1986 I upgraded to Extra and when vanity licensing became available I became N4FN (my initials reversed) My Elmer was an old friend Irwin Kane WA2VGM (now a silent key). I have been active in the Atlanta Ham community for many years having served as President of the QCWA, Atlanta Radio Club (twice), the Southeastern DX Club as well as other officers in those clubs. I served as the coordinator of ARRL VEC testing at GA Tech for several years. As an active DXer I have 342 countries confirmed. I am still interested in chasing DX but currently my main interest is in PSK. Of all the ham radio awards I have and there are a bunch, I am proudest of the Arabian Knights Award (number 568 in the world) and the Royal Jordanian Silver Award (number 191 in the world) from the Arabian Amateur Radio League and issued and personally signed by King Hussein of Jordan JY1, I also have The Commonwealth DX Award (number 332 in the world) issued by the RSGB. I also hold the British Class A call sign G0NBJ (my original call was G5DKW) having taken the British RAE years ago. I have also operated from 13 DXCC ccountries. I am also a member of the DXCC Honor Roll. Like many hams I took a hiatus from ham radio for about 10 years, missed it and came back to our great hobby. The station at home is a Yaesu FT-5000 and utune for 40/80  and 160 meters. For HF I utilize a GAP Challenger and a K4KIO Hex Beam antenna. Recently with the aid of my friend Dave W7FB (an antenna genius!) installed a 160 meter inverted "L" At a recent Dayton pilgrimage I added a Palstar HF-Auto tuner. When a bit of extra grunt is needed I use an Alpha 99 amp. My thanks to my new friend Vlad-UA6JD for this great page design on QRZ.