On the Air: You may work me from my mobile(706MkIIG)barefoot with hamsticks during the commute or from home on the Kenwood TS940S + TL922A, Kenwood TS-2000, or my newly refurbished SWAN 350. (Yes, I finally got my original novice rig back on the air!) The antenna is a Carolina Windom 160, but I have grand plans for a serious antenna. So far I have collected a STEPPIR 3ele, Ham IV, and a 70 foot Hygain crank up tower.(all used) Non of it is up yet, but if I can manage to sell some more stuff, maybe I can raise the funds to dig the hole and poor the concrete and buy all of that cable!?!?

My favorite things: I mostly love to DX and ragchew, but due to family commitments, I usually find myself making the short DX QSO these days.

As an ex-recording engineer, I'm particularly interested in all thing audio.

I've also brewed a couple of batches of home brew beer in the basement in honor of our fine hobby. I posted the label that my brother designed for all to see (he is talented isn't he!) This label even won honorable mention in a beer label contest.

History and work: Bio I've been a ham since I was 16 years old... long before the internet,and cell phones. I was styling with the phone patch as a 16 year old. First to have a "phone" in my car, so to speak. I have a bachelors degree in electronics, but it feels like I've forgotten just about everything electronics wise I ever learned. Now my life is all about the application side of computers. I work as a product manager for Russound. We do high end distributed audio/video systems for the custom residential installer market. Lately, I'm designing touch screen interfaces and distributed HDMI systems.

I "was" DX once:

I lived overseas a number of years... First in the UK, where I had a reciprocal call, and then in South Africa where my call was ZS6BNR.

Thanks for looking! 73, Doug