Please add your call to my Contact Log, along with any comments you'd like to make!

I QSL 100% for DX. Stateside on request, no SASE needed. Also, LotW and eQSL go out at least weekly.

One of my hobbies is weather (storm chasing, observations, amateur meteorology). 

http://www.wunderground.com/swf/Rapid_Fire.swf?units=english&station=KTXSPRIN5

This is the REAL TIME weather on my rooftop.  I use a Davis Vantage Pro 2 wireless instrument array and console, connected to the internet thru an iMac, using Lightsoft Weather Center (LWC) software.  If you want to see what I logged at my house during the landfall of Hurricane Ike, click here: 

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KTXSPRIN5&month=9&day=13&year=2008. 

I had my computer on a UPS, and the weather station was battery operated, so it kept logging right through the eye passage and beyond.  I was in Hawaii at the time HI HI.

I am a ARRL Incoming DX Buro sorter for W5 "L" suffix callsigns. Please keep your supplies (stamps, envelopes, and labels) stocked with the W5 Buro. More info at www.okdxa.org/buro 

Don't forget to put 44 cents return postage on all SASE's going to buro, domestic managers, etc.!  

I hold 5BDXCC (plus 17 and 30m) as well as DXCC Challenge. I'm always looking for a "new one" on any band.  Latest totals :

A full grid showing my DXCC worked / confirmed / verified status is available here:  http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pinr_WGbUbtDxYJPX-xfwKA

Ex-callsigns: KC0JB (Ankeny, Iowa 1981 - 1988, Lexington Park, MD 1989 - 1991, The Colony, TX 1991 - 1997, McKinney, TX 1997 - 2002

N0CXX (a few weeks in 1981, all in Ankeny, Iowa);

WD0HUJ (1978 - 1981, all in Ankeny, Iowa).

Most of my radio time is spent DX-ing, with some occasional contesting. My non-radio pursuits include volleyball (retired), rollerblading, geocaching, photography, and home brewing (beer and electronics).  I also spend a lot of time chasing my two little ones (Alex - 8, Caroline - 5) around and watching them grow.

I currently have the following for a station:

HF / 6M / 2M: Icom IC-7800, Icom 746Pro, Steppir BigIR MkIII on 80-6m, 80M dipole, Discone 50-1200MHz ant.

Vacation QTH (Near Rolla, MO) : Yaesu FT-1000 MkV, Yaesu FT-100D, antennas to be named later.