Dedications and My Current and Previously
Held
Amateur call signs / QTHs:
Held Amateur call signs / QTHs:
This web page is dedicated
to the memories of my dear friends
and especially
to my Uncle Ron (W6ZF)
KA5NAL called himself the "Naturalized American Limey" (SK-1985) Ainsley, breaking into my very first ham radio QSO to pass along your phone number and to ask me to call you led to a great friendship, one that I will remember for the rest of my life. We helped one other learn everything we could about ham radio and it was so much fun; you made it even more so. Those trips to New Orleans to take our amateur exams and those to Kenner, Louisiana to to visit W5QJP were a blast. Sorry about placing the wires for the secondary battery so close to the exhaust on your truck. I'm glad the resulting problem wasn't too serious. It was an honor to have known you and especially to have worked emergency services with you those many times and most notably in Slidell, Louisiana in 1983 when we worked alongside St. Tammany Parish officials. No doubt you have your wings by now Ainsley...enjoy DX'ing and touring the entire universe.
Clyde Hurlbert Gulfport, Mississippi W5CH (SK-1984) Former ARRL Delta Division Director Clyde we sure had a blast staying on the air while you were watching your house. We were each others' first contact on the WARC bands when each became available at midnight :01 on their respective dates.
Charlie Kelly Song Tan, Republic of South Korea
HL9CK (SK-1995?) Charlie, thanks for taking a stubborn young man aside to explain to him the importance and the integrity of the amateur radio volunteer examination program. It was because of you that I became a VE and eventually ran two teams simultaneously and helped many people more obtain their tickets. Thank you Charlie.
Walter and Bea Daniels
Orange
City, Mississippi
W5SGL
WD5JXT
Walt and Miss Bea thank you for the many chats, letters and long distance
QSO's.
I miss you both and you two are at the top of my list of the nicest hams I've ever met.
KA5MWD
[1981]
Biloxi, Mississippi
[Keesler
Air Force Base]
I obtained my
Novice Class amateur radio license after taking classes given by Paul Goble -
WA2VMS (now ND2X) at the Keesler Amateur
Radio Club - K5TYP. Just a note: Paul's
daughter Jennifer was a Novice licensee during the time I was taking the class.
She was 9 years old
at the time.
When Jennifer was 11 she obtained the
call sign NE0M. I call that very impressive.
N1CLS
[1982]
Biloxi
In August of
1982 I passed my General Class exam at the FCC Field Examination Office in New
Orleans, Louisiana.
I had to sign "KA5MWD Interim O-R" until my new
license arrived in the mail. Using my home address of Lowell, Massachusetts
I
obtained a first area call sign and was later elected President of K5TYP.
I wasn't the best radio club president in the world but was able to
keep the
radio club from being disbanded by the base MWR (Morale Recreation and Welfare)
and I ran many amateur radio classes during
my term in office. I also joined the
Mississippi Gulf Coast Amateur Radio Association.
KB1LW
[1983]
Biloxi
I upgraded to
Advanced Class in August of 1983, exactly 30 days after my first attempt at the
New Orleans testing office.
My heaviest involvement in amateur radio emergency
services occurred on the Mississippi Gulf Coast during this time.
I served as an
AEC (Assistant Emergency Coordinator), under EC W5WLF, for Harrison County,
during some of the worst
weather conditions
I had ever experienced. For the
first time in my life I saw water so deep that two story homes were
completely submerged. Ainsley Phillips, KA5NAL, and I drove to Slidell, Louisiana in
his Jeep CJ-7 to assist St. Tammany
Parish officials when the Pearl River
flooded
the area. Two years later, on Labor Day of 1985, as I was getting ready
to
transfer out of Mississippi, Hurricane Elena decided to make landfall over
Biloxi and with 135 MPH winds. I had the
privilege of working with the
American Red Cross in Pascagoula, Mississippi providing communications between
there and
the Red Cross operations in Mobile, Alabama .
KB1LW
Within a
week of my arrival to New England, Hurricane Gloria breezed through. She was
more an annoyance than anything
else by the
time she reached Massachusetts. Guess who was blamed, by the local ham community, for bringing her up here
with
me from the Gulf Coast? All I can say is, " I didn't do it!" - an O.J.
and Bart Simpson Quote.
HL9ZF
[Jun89 - Jun 90]
I received
my HL9 ticket within 24 hours of arriving in country. Talk about
expediency. The only time, in my
little over 20 years of military service, that
I ever saw anything move that fast, other than some of the air
traffic I worked
from the control tower, was my squad in basic training heading for the chow
hall. I joined the
AARCK, American Amateur Radio Club of Korea shortly
thereafter. Charley Kelly, HL9CK convinced me of the
integrity of the amateur
radio Volunteer Examination program and because of him I decided to become a VE
myself.
Before leaving Korea I made a half-hearted attempt to obtain my Amateur
Extra Class ticket. My plan was to do just
that when the first call area got
into the "W" 2x1 call signs. I did manage to pass the 20 wpm code test
so walked out
with a CSCE, certificate of successful completion, for that.
Photo
of me taken while on the VIP tour of the DMZ in
May of 1990 standing less than
50 yards from the North Korean Border. You will NOT notice me standing there
with my
hand in my
pocket. That is an order!! My headquarters
squadron section commander and good friend, Stan Spillers,
arranged it so
that those of us who went on this DMZ tour received the same tour as did
President Reagan on his visit.
It was an experience I'll never forget.
KB1LW
[1990]
Alamogordo , New Mexico
[Holloman
Air Force Base]
My orders
said, "Report to White Sands Missile Range." I did that and nothing
happened. So, I thought I'd better report
to a human body. The unit
I was to be assigned to had a classified mission and everything was stamped,
"DATA MASKED."
I wasn't quite sure to whom I was to report to but they
sure put me to work. I ended up with the 4th Space Warning Squadron,
of Air
Force Space Command. My job there was so secret even I never really knew what it
was. It didn't take long for me to find
out how come even though I was sporting
an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University decal on the rear window of my vehicle,
why most
of the younger officers had Starfleet Academy decals on the rear
windows of their own vehicles.
WK1V [1990] Alamogordo
Shortly
after my family and I arrived in Alamogordo I joined the Alamogordo Amateur
Radio Club. At the Alamogordo Hamfest, in
September, I made an attempt at
the Extra Class written exam - my first attempt since Korea. I had to bone up on
my math a bit and ended
up going back the next day -- and finally passed. Before
my new license arrived the Air Force sent me to Omaha, Nebraska to attend a
Frequency Management Seminar. I was on a layover at the airport in Phoenix,
Arizona talking to Michelle, my XYL (wife for non-hams) on
the telephone when
she opened the mail and told me I had a new call sign. Having my Icom 2/AT with
me I promptly got on the air
(after finishing the phone call of course) to show
off my new call sign. Later, in 1991, I took over the ARRL and W5YI VE team
operations in
Alamogordo. Michelle obtained her ticket in April of 1992, and
received her call sign -- N1MBV. (Of course the rules did not allow me to
participate in her testing process...but she aced her exams nonetheless) She was
later elected Secretary of the AARC don't ya know. You'll
never guess who
actually recorded the club meeting minutes. And, it was from Alamogordo that I
ended my 20+ year career with the Air Force
on September 1st of 1993, what a
trip!
WK1V [1993
- 2001]
Well, we're
here! And this is where we are! For five and a half years we lived with my
father-in-law in Lowell, MA. During that time
I attended school at U/Mass Lowell
and at Boston University's Corporate Education Center. I worked at
Ham Radio Outlet in Salem, New
Hampshire with some of the best people I've ever
had the pleasure to work with and for. Most of them anyway.... I want to
thank Bob
Ferrero for letting be a part of his fine organization. I
now work in the security access control industry. I was hired as a
technical support
specialist in May of '97 and in February of '98 I was invited
to join the Y2K team. We made our security systems Y2K compliant for
our
customers who include over half of the Fortune 500 companies. In July of
2000 I was promoted to Sr. Specialist, Customer Technical Support.
My wife and I purchased our own home located in Dracut, MA in February of 1999.
W6ZF [2001
- 2002]
To
keep Uncle Ron’s call sign in the family, I applied for it on March 16,
sign was now assigned to me and
that my old call WK1V had been canceled.
WK1V
[2002 - 2004]
On the 28th of May 2002
after missing my former call sign so much I applied to re-obtain it. On
the 15th of June 2002 my application was granted by the FCC
and I once again
held the call WK1V.
W6ZF [2004
- 2007]
I now hold the call sign W6ZF once and for all. After two
years I decided it's best to keep this call in the family and it's what I really
wanted to do. I took a little bit
of grief from the self-appointed
"call sign cops" but who are they anyhow? It's the FCC that I
have to deal with. I explained my situation to them and that's all there
is to it. The license was re-granted on the 6th of June 2004.
W1KQ [2007
- Present]
More cw contesting and so many question marks
in response to my call sign created the need for me to mention something in
the Yankee Clipper Contesting Club
reflector that I needed a cw friendly
call. I received an email from a fellow club member who was keeping
track of SK calls. Looking myself I wasn't aware of this
call, W1KQ. Checking the SSDI database at Rootsweb.com I was able to get the data I
needed to send to the FCC to request cancellation of the call. The
call
was granted in February and I've been happy with it since.
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