DXCC CONFIRMED: 324 CURRENT - - - 348 TOTAL (Waiting for 1 new country card!!)

DX stations - Earn a Willamette Valley DX Club (WVDXC) Honorary Member Certificate. Work 10 members then submit list (calls, bands, dates and times) to WVDXC, POB 555, Portland OR 97207, USA (www.wvdxc.org)

Novice, WN7WLL, July 9, 1954; General, W7WLL, September 30,1954; Advanced, September 10, 1968; Extra Class June 3, 2000. Held call AC7WLL during 1976 US Bi-Centennial. My early mentor was boyhood friend Bob Wruble, W7TDK (later AI7B, then W7GG (now deceased)).

I QSL 100% every NEW callsign I work with a REAL QSL card and appreciate QSL cards in return. I do NOT use or respond to eQSL. Not yet set up for LOTW. Cards received via the bureau will be returned via the bureau. Cards received direct will be responded to direct. I don't need SASE's, green stamps, IRC's, etc, but they are helpful.

Served from '54-'63 with the 41st Inf Div, 162nd Engineer Bn (Communications Unit), OANG. Left as E-7. Was the CHOP of MARS station K7WAI. Top pic below is of portable MARS station setup (National NC-124 and WRL Globe King) taken at Ft Lewis WA the summer of 1958.

The WN7WLL Novice picture above was taken about September 1954. My first station was a Hallicrafters SX-71, a RME DB-23 Preselector and a homebrew xtal-controlled transmitter with a pair of 6L6's and an Amphenol folded dipole on 80 and 40.

Currently use a Yaesu FT-990 (or FT-1000) and Alpha 91b amplifier. Antennas are a 80M inverted V hung from the top of a 70 foot Hy-Gain HG-70HD crankup tower holding a Hy-Gain TH7DXX (10/15/20) at 72 feet (22 M), a Cushcraft A3WS (12/17) at 80 feet (24 M) and a 2M Technical Specialist's high-gain monopole at 82 feet (25 M). Use a Kenwood TM-241A for 2 M.

Mobile 80 through 10 with Yaesu FT-900 using Hustler antennas on Toyota Sienna.

Member - ARRL, Willamette Valley DX Club (March 12, 1965), 10-10 (#71666), United States Lighthouse Society, QCWA (#33545), Smithsonian Institution, National Contact Management Association (Certified Federal Contracts Manager and Fellow), BPOE - Newport OR lodge, and Oregon Emergency Net {OEN} (#69, March 12, 1965).

W suffix sorter for ARRL 7th Call Area QSL Bureau (http://wvdxc.org/dotnetnuke/QSLBureau/tabid/59/Default.aspx). Was the 7th Call Area QSL Bureau Manager, starting in 1967, for a couple of years.

Operate portable from Oregon lighthouses and other Oregon coast special events when time and conditions permit. Trustee for KY7L, Oregon Amateur Radio Special Events Association.

Active in International Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend (www.illw.net). Have operated from Cape Blanco LH , Umpqua River LH , Cleft of the Rock LH , Yaquina Bay and Yaquina Head LH's and Cape Arago LH (on Chief Island) on OR's coast. Member of Ayr Amateur Radio Group, sponsor of the ILLW event.

Former QSL Manager for ET3/9E3/9F3FMA, VR4LN, KC6CE, KW6EK, FL8MC, and FL8RA, among others back in time

I collect lighthouse and lightship postal cards, US and foreign. If you have a lighthouse or lightship card you would send to me, I am willing to reimburse you the cost of the card and postage or can trade for an extra lighthouse card I have. Also collect matchbook boxes and covers from around the world.

YACHATS OREGON QTH (Primary Home)

Temporary ham shack (waiting for addition to home). West (beach) side of house (Siuslaw National Forest behind).

Bucket lift truck for easy work on antennas. One of our local black bears looking for garbage cans

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View to the West from our home.

We live in a wonderful ocean view 2-story home on an acre plus of flat land at the top of a 70 foot (22 M) hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the central Oregon coast (Milepost 162) in Lincoln County, 2 miles N of Yachats OR and 5 miles S of Waldport OR. We are about 1500 feet (457 M) from the ocean itself, a quick walk down the hill (safe from any potential major tsunami!!!).

We have many visiting animals in the area, including deer, coyote, puma, black bear (above) and a herd of Roosevelt elk numbering up to 20+ at times. All wander out of the Siuslaw National Forest behind us (269,000 acres/108,860 hectares/4,384 sq M), a very big back yard!!

Interested in OR central and north coast weather? See current wx information (updated about every 5 minutes) at www.ocrg.org/telemetry_feed/ocrgwx.html. I'm Yachats/AS531, at the list bottom.

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PORTLAND OREGON QTH (Second Home)

Second home is in the West Slope/Raleigh Hills area, west of Portland OR and east of Beaverton OR (Washington County). The ham shack shown above is a Collins S1-Line, homebrew 4-1000 linear and TH7DX on 51 foot (16 M) crankup tower. Pic is of my wife and I with two of our three great grandchildren.

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I retired from a 42 year career with Tektronix in February 2001. Left as Director of Global Marketing's Worldwide Support Services group (consisting of the Technical Support Center, Commercial and Federal Contracts, Federal Security, Tender Management, ECommerce, Business Practices, Customer and Employee Technical Training, Export Services, Export Control, Corporate Customer Certification and Compliance, Pricing Administration and Logistics). Represented the company to various national trade organization committees, including SAMA, COMPACT, NDPA (formerly AOA), and EIA.

Volunteer from 1974 through 2010 for the Department of Defense, Under Secretary of Defense, Reserve Affairs, Oregon Committee of the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) organization. Served as a Unit Representative, Area Chair and Employer Outreach Chair.

Served as a Senior Advisor (appointed by the Secretary of Commerce) with the National Defense Executive Reserve (NDER), later assigned to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The NDER was disbanded recently.

Own Technovations, consulting to small businesses interested in marketing and selling to US and foreign governments.

Awarded US Patent 3,888,780 for Timelapse Photographic System.

Chairman, Board of Commissioners, SW Lincoln County Water District.

NOAA/NWS SKYWARN volunteer LC-3H.

Other hobbies - lighthouses, lighthouse books and lighthouse memorabilia (local pharologist), stamps and coins, matchbook covers and boxes (phillumenist), rock polishing and travel.