Biography

First licensed in 1953 as WN9VHL in southern Wisconsin and upgraded to General Class the same year as W9VHL (My ARRL 20 WPM Certificate is dated 18 Apr 1953). Moved to the St. Louis area in 1968 and became WB0KUU (back in the days when a call sign designated a specific call area), which call I kept for many years until W9VHL became available again.

After moving to Missouri I became an Advanced Class licensee and finally achieved Amateur Extra Class. I also hold a Commercial Ticket with Radar Endorsement.

Currently active in several clubs; QCWA Chapter 19 (61+ years and former President), Monsanto Amateur Radio Association (former Secretary-Treasurer), Mississippi Valley DX/Contest Club, Gateway Chapter of 10-10 International (42+ years and Webmaster of the www.angelfire.com/mo/gateway1010 site) and the A.R.R.L..

I have been married for 60+ years to my wonderful and understanding wife, Karen, and have two sons, Donald (Dr. Scott who is the Principal Investigator of a Molecular Biology Lab at Mt. Sinai Hospital in N.Y.C.) and David (Food Services at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis). I enjoy chasing DX (DXCC but no Honor Roll yet) and contests involving CW, Phone and Digital Modes. I also enjoy building and experimenting but old age is catching up with me and SMT is becoming more and more challenging. Thanks for reading my biography and Peace.....


I SUPPORT THE DX CODE OF CONDUCT - SHOULDN'T WE ALL?

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Rigs: Icom IC-7300, Icom IC-751A with ICOM AT-150 or MFJ-941D ATU, Yaesu FT-897D with CW Filter and LDG AT-897 ATU, SB-220 Amplifier, Icom IC-91AD for D-Star, ADI AR-146 2M FM XCVR with Yaesu AL-2050 Amp, ADI AT-600 HT for 2M/440, BaoFeng UV-5R TYT MD83 for DMR and Yaesu VX-2R HTs.

Antennas: Mosley TA-33Jr. up at 13M with Yaesu G-450A Rotator for 10, 15 and 20M plus G5RV and DX-40 OCF for Lower HF and WARC bands, 11 El. Yagi at 15M for 2M, and 2M/440 Collinear Vertical up at 8M.