PLEASE NOTE: W3HNK is now my QSL manager. Thanks! I will make an effort to upload my logs periodically to the ARRL for your LoTW confirmation. I currently do not accept eQSL.   My "radio career" began at an early age as I vividly remember getting my first pair of walkie talkies as a Christmas gift around age 5. During the late seventies, and after several sets of walkie talkies and several years later, I hijacked an old CB radio from the family car. While in high school I spent many evenings talking to the locals and dreaming of working the "skip" that I'd hear. Eventually several of my friends decided to take the amateur radio exam and talked me into joining them. Everybody passed and on January 5, 1985 my first license arrived in the mail. That afternoon in a driving snowstorm, a dipole was strung from the roof of my parent's house out to some trees. It was official, KA9SYF was on the air! DXing has always been my passion. From the early days of hearing those distant signals on 11 meters to present day, there is still magic in being able to talk to somebody half way around the world. Over the course of the last 20+ years I've managed to achieve DXCC Honor Roll only needing 3Y0/B and KP1 for #1 Honor Roll - both of which I missed during my college years. I've also been an active DX cluster sysop since the early days, putting my first node on the air in 1994 and today keeping busy with the DX Central website (http://www.dxcentral.com). I am also the DX Columnist for World Radio magazine. I've had the good fortune of being able to operate a few contests from "The Other Side" andover the course of the last few years, I havespent some on a DX rental QTH on the island of Bonaire (http://www.villadesertpalm.com). If you happen to hear me on the air, please stop and say "HI".

DXPEDITIONS & CONTESTS Turks & Caicos   • VP5/N0VD     Portable operation holiday style   • VP5X Team member     2004 CQWW SSB Contest - M/S HP, #1 Caribbean/Central America   • VP5D     2005 ARRL 10M Contest - SO LP Mixed, #2 World     2006 ARRL 10M Contest - SO LP CW Only, #3 World   Grenada   • J3A Team member     2005 CQWW SSB Contest - M/M HP, #8 North America   Curacao/Bonaire   • PJ2/N0VD     Portable operation holiday style   • PJ4/N0VD     Portable operation holiday style     2008 CQWW SSB Contest - M/S LP, #9 South America   • PJ4E Team member     2006 CQWW SSB Contest - M/S HP, #4 World     2007 CQWW SSB Contest - M/2 HP, #4 World   • PJ2T Team member     2009 WPX SSB Contest - M/2 HP, #2 World     2009 CQWW SSB Contest - M/M HP, #1 World     2010 ARRL CW Contest - M/M HP, #1 World, New South American Record     2011 ARRL CW Contest - M/M HP, #1 Claimed + New DX World Record   • PJ4D Team member     2010 New DXCC DXpedition - 10-22 October, 2010

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