| First licensed in 1965 as WN9SZN. Upgraded and became WA9WYB in 1967. Resided in the Chicago area until 1984 when my XYL, Robin, and I moved to the San Francisco bay area, finally settling in Alameda, CA. In July 2011, Robin retired from a nursing career at the University of California San Francisco and I retired from the City of San Francisco Radio Engineering Department and we moved to Hansville Washington. We began building our dream home on a one acre parcel over-looking Puget Sound. Kept the WA9 call until 1998 when I got tired of signing portable 6 and requested W6WYB. Then decided to get "vain" and applied for and received W6RS in August 2007.
UPDATE I: July 2, 2011 - Moved into a rental house in Hansville, WA while building our new home on the other side of town. Sadly, Off The Air!
UPDATE II: March 16th - 2012: We moved into our now completed, beautiful new cedar home in Hansville, WA.
UPDATE III: July 31, 2012 - Finally installed a SteppIR - Big IR vertical and got some LMR-600 run out to it so we have a "modest" station setup and I am FINALLY back on the air! Now the tower and beam project begins!:
UPDATE IV: June 14, 2013 - Erected an "AN Wireless" 80 HHD, 80 FootTower, Orion OR-2800 rotator and a SteppIR DB-18E 10-40 Meter Dream Beam.
View down the boom of the antenna is facing Europe. Body of water is Puget Sound.
Current equipment is a Icom IC-7700 and IC-4KL Amp or Ameritron AL-1500 Amp.
I have always been fascinated by DXing and still find it the most enjoyable and chalanging part of the hobby.
Nothing gets the juices flowing like an "all time new one"
Current DXCC standing is 351/339 Mixed
 DXCC MIXED - # 1 Honor Roll
DXCC PHONE - Honor Roll
DXCC CW - 329
DXCC RTTY 206
8 Band DXCC
Hope to see you in the pileups from the new QTH.
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