Originally licensed in 1996 as KB0WJO, I enjoy long QSOs on the beach, mushing up my ice cream, letting the magic smoke out of various electronic devices, swearing at old cars - and sometimes driving them, at times in crooked circles at high rates of speed. I make my living by making pretty pictures out of 1s and 0s and stringing words together to make articles and essays.

I first got into ham radio thanks to my dad Mark, KD2KT (ex-KA2FIX) and am a former president of the Rochester Institute of Technology's Radio Club, K2GXT; as well as an op at W2SZ/1 from 1998-2002 and proud to be a part of the team that holds the all time scoring records for both the June and September VHF QSO Parties. I'm currently a member of the Arizona Outlaws Contest Club, as well as the ARRL.

Don't let my art degree fool you - I may not be the most technical person ever in the hobby, but I do enjoy my share of design and building. I learned fairly early on that although I find technolgy and engineering fascinating, I prefer to keep it as a hobby. I often find it amusing that my dad is the engineer who takes photos as a hobby, and I'm a photographer who dabbles in engineering for fun.

I love building antennas - I'm perpetually fascinated by what I can do with some wire and the trees on my property, I'm currently experimenting with building my own microphones, and in the past I've built some homebrew laser pointer CW radios that made QSO's over 10mi+ paths.

As far as operating goes, I enjoy all forms of contesting and chasing DX with an ever changing array of homebrew wire antennas wedged into my suburban backyard and my Ten Tec Omni C that's almost as old as I am. I'm also always game for the occasional ragchew. I've got a lot of hobbies - we've probably got some common ground somewhere, not just in radio.

QSL cards?  Send me yours, I'll send you mine.  I hope you'd do me the same courtesy if you receive one from me.  I use LOTW and the bureau, and direct is fine as well.  If you do go direct I'd appreciate a SASE, but I'm not going to stamp my foot and huff about it if you don't.  You'll still get a card.

For a period of time I was the Vatican.

Some of this is true.

I present, for your information and likely amusement, the nerve center of the W2AJW Center for Ionospheric Research and Sleep Deprivation:

Hope to hear on you the air sometime.

73 - Andy