I live and work just outside Condon, Gilliam County; Oregon; a very small town in North-Central Oregon, U.S.A., population about 1,000. I am a member of the following Amateur Radio organizations and clubs:

ARRL (OES OR SEC), WRRL Charter Member #16, QRP-ARCI #4791, NWQRP #500, NAQCC #2904, FISTS NW #44, FISTS International #6242, SKCC #3658, 10-10 International #50200 and The Adventure Radio Society, #792. I am also a member of Pendleton Skywarn and operate an automatic weather station transmitting its data via the internet to the NWS and others. We moved here from Fossil, Wheeler County, Oregon in December, 2008 and since that time, the weather station has been down. Plans call for getting it re-installed before May 1, 2009 and sending its data via APRS packet, insted of by internet, shortly thereafter.  I am the Training Officer for the Pendleton HF Skywarn Net and take part in several other weather and emergency communications related nets on an irregular basis, on both voice and CW.

My XYL Kathy, KD7OTY and I, own EmComm Products LLC - a small design and manufacturing company located here in Condon, Oregon. We build antenna systems and other communications related products for Amateur Radio, MARS, CAP, USCG Aux., government, military and commercial customers, worldwide; with particular emphasis on man-portable combination U/VHF and HF/NVIS antenna systems.

I was first licensed in 1959 at age 9 in my native state of Indiana. I am a former U.S. Army Signal Corps operator, serving in Vietnam, a former member of the U.S.C.G., a former police officer, paramedic, emergency services dispatcher and county emergency programs coordinator. I am the former ARES EC, Lake County MT, former ARES AEC/Training, Yamhill County, Oregon, former Director of Communications, MT Wing, Civil Air Patrol, U.S.A.F. Aux., and member of Army MARS (AAR0PH).

My interests include Amateur Radio in general and EmComm operations in particular, QRP field ops., CW, rag chewing, flying and of course, antennas. I am a member of ARES/RACES Oregon Section, District 3 and an Oregon section OES. My primary rig is a Yaesu  FT-857D but have other equipment as well.  I operate 160-10M HF and 6/2M and 70 CM bands, SSB, CW and some digital modes such as APRS and MT-63.  My favorite mode is QRP-CW from the field.  My home station is equipped for extended emergency power operations and I also have mobile/portable capabilities with a well equipped Toyota FJ Cruiser SUV.