First licensed: 1975 (age 14) as WN4CSK

Upgraded: 1976 - WB4CSK

Vanity Call: 1997 - W4CK

(My son, Will, now holds WB4CSK.)

I'm primarily interested in CW and DXing

DXCC: Top of the Honor Roll -- 351 countries confirmed MIXED and SSB, 349 CW (Naturally, I need North Korea, P5, on CW.)

Member of First-Class CW Operators' Club (FOC) since 1987 http://g4foc.org/

Life Member: ARRL, Quarter Century Wireless Association (QCWA)

Station: Ten Tec OMNI VI, Ameritron AL-811H, Mosley CL-33 with WARC Element (18 and 24 MHz) at 45 ft, Dipoles at 55 ft for 80, 40, and 30 meters, Inverted L for 160 meters, N2DAN Mercury Paddle, N4YG Smart Keyer III

Have operated from:

V73BL: The Marshall Islands, Kwajalein Atoll in 1990 (3 times) and 2002

KH6BB: Aboard the USS Missouri anchored in Pearl Harbor in 2004, 2005, and 2007

KH6/WB4CSK: Oahu, Hawaii in 1990

TA2/W4CK: Turkey 2005 from ANTRAK, Ankara Amateur Radio Club station

M/W4CK: England 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2009

MM/W4CK: Scotland 2000

A61AF: United Arab Emirates 2001

HR1/W4CK: Honduras 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004

HL9A: Seoul, Korea 2008