ND2T, Tom

Tom was first licensed at age 11 in The Bronx, New York, which explains the 2 in his call sign. He operated as WV2ASJ, WA2ASJ, and K1EQT, but eventually let all amateur radio licenses lapse.

After a forty-year hiatus from amateur radio, during which time he always had an HF receiver close to hand, Tom jumped back into the hobby as ND2T in 2001. He loves the challenges of tight integration among antenna systems, radios, computers, and networked information, especially for the high-rate contesting such integration allows. Tom is a member of the competitive multi-op team at W6YX, He has contested from K6IDX (W6OAT), W7RN and KH6LC.

Tom is a member and Past-President of Northern California Contest Club, a charter member of CWops, a member of the Stanford Amateur Radio Club, CDXC, and of PL-259 CC. Tom is Treasurer of the International DX Convention (“Visalia”) in odd-numbered years. He is also President of NCDXF.

Tom is making up for those lost solar cycles by working all the DX he can (325 confirmed). Tom was a team member at BS7H (Scarborough Reef), K4M (Midway), VP8ORK (South Orkney) and NH8S (Swains). He did the antenna preparation work for K9W (Wake). He is looking forward to QSOs with you from Archipel Chesterfield.

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W1SRD, Steve

w1srd 450x450 Steve, W1SRD, is from northern California and was first licensed in 1974. He is past president of NCCC and an active contester and DX'er. Prior operations include KH6/W1SRD, PJ4/W1SRD, PJ4D and several CQP county expeditions. He enjoys station building, contesting in all modes and working towards Honor Roll (316 confirmed).
He was recently the coordinator for W1AW/6 #2 which produced 48K QSO's from 45 stations statewide.
Sometimes in WPX he can be heard signing AG1RL, borrowing his very supportive XYL's call.
Steve works for Hewlett-Packard as a software architect and is an HP Distinguished Technologist.

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N6XG, Walt

Walt was licensed as a Novice in 1959 as WV6HUR. His introduction to radio was a 40M dipole, single tube oscillator/transmitter and an entry level Heath receiver. He subsequently upgraded to WA6HUR and in the 80s to the call of N6XG. He is a member of the Northern California Contest Club.

He has degrees in Engineering, Mathematics and Business Management.

Walt in his 24 year at IBM he had the good fortune of living and operating in Germany and Japan. In Japan he was licensed as 7J1AAM. Subsequent to IBM he was the head of a large electronic contract manufacturing company.

Upon his retirement in 2000 he has travelled and operated extensively throughout the world on vacation style DXpeditions. In 2001 he joined “Team Vertical” and has been on five Dxpeditions to 6Y and 2 DXpeditions to C6.

Walt’s current interests are contesting, physical fitness, travel, and business consulting. He lives in Los Altos Hills, CA with his wife.

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N6HD, David

David Greenhut, N6HD was first licensed in 1974. He holds an Amateur Extra Class license. David was a member of the KH8S (Swains Island) and T33A (Banaba Island) DXpedtions and several other of his own operation including TG7/N6HD, KH6/N6HD and others. He works all modes including CW. David is the ARRL Los Angeles Section Manager. His other amateur radio interests include contesting and disaster communications. David lives in Los Angeles, California.

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WA6O, Mike

Mike, originally from Moscow, Russia, has lived in the USA for the past 22 years. First licensed as UA3AIW, he operated mostly from UK3ABF, UK3ACL, and other club stations in Moscow. In 1998 he received AD6GY and WA6O in 1999. He's a member of Northern California Contest Club, and 40m captain in N6RO contest team.

Over the years he participated in many CW contests from DX locations - with "Team Vertical" from Jamaica, Fiji, Bahamas as 6Y2A, 6Y8A, 6Y9A, 3D2XA, 3D2OK, C6AAW. He also operated from HC8N, Galapagos. Since 2003 he held a CQWW CW NA record in Single Op/Single Band (15)/Low power category. His non-contesting DX-trips include: CE0Y/WA6O, FO0SHA, ZK1WAL. Most recently he was part of the Clipperton 2013 and VK9MT Mellish Reef 1014 DX-pedition team.

In his professional life, he is a software engineer with Ph.D. degree in computer science. He works for HP Labs in Palo Alto, CA, Mike is married and has two sons.

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K6TD, Kevin

Kevin was first licensed in 1970. Work, kids and family life took Kevin away from radio, returning in 1988. After having worked as an EE for several Silicon Valley high tech companies, he now finds HF contesting and DXing a pleasant diversion. He has operated mostly in W6 land, but, has been heard from KH6 and BV1. DXpeditions include Midway and Mozambique. He helped with antennas for Wake.
Kevin has served as the chairman of the California QSO Party and as a director of the NCCC. He has co-chaired IDXC for 2011, 2013, and will for 2015.He's also a member of NCDXF, MLDXCC, and PAARA, and a life member of ARRL, charter member of CWOPS, and lastly SOC.