I was first licensed here in Tucson, Arizona as a Novice in 1958 and upgraded to Conditional the same year. I upgraded to Advanced Class in April 1977 and passed my Amateur Extra Class in October of that year,  Currently, my main interest is working DX. I am on the DXCC Honor Roll and also have 5BDXCC, DXCC on Phone, CW, RTTY and qualified for DXCC Challenge.

Although I have the privilege of owning two-acres of beautiful Sonoran Desert property located a few hundred meters from Saguaro National Park, my antennas remain modest; a home-designed and built three-element Yagi at 15 meters above ground and an inverted-vee dipole for other bands.

My station equipment is an Elecraft K3/100 driving my venerable Drake L-4B.

Professionally, I was employed at Hughes Aircraft Company, Missile Systems Division, for 30 years. During that time I held a number of positions and worked on many tactical missile programs, primarily in the field of RF/uW design and evaluation. I took early retirement from Hughes as a Member of the Technical Staff in 1996. Following the acquisition of Hughes by Raytheon I worked there, primarily on the Tomahawk and Standard Missile programs, until my second retirement in 1999.

I QSL 100% for cards received (including SWL) with SASE. DX and DX SWL received by the bureau are answered 100% via the bureau. With rare exceptions, stateside cards received without SASE are not answered.