Welcome to KU8E's Web site!
I was first licensed in 1976 as WN8ALG.
A year later my call changed to WD8ALG and then in 1980 to KU8E. I
became interested in amateur radio during high school when I joined the school radio club
during my freshman year. During the late 1970’s I started dabbling in radio
contesting and it just happened that a close neighbor of mine was Jim Stahl, K8MR, who is
an active contester. Jim introduced me to the guys in the Mad
River Radio Club and I have been an
active member and a contester since joining up. I am a past president and
newsletter editor for the club. I am also the contest director for the Ohio QSO Party
and help out some on the eHam.net
website which was designed by my friend W4AN.
In the early 1980’s I had my first chance to operate from the other end when I joined
some other members of Mad River on a trip the FG7AR/FS7 for the ARRL DX
CW contest. Since then I have operated as VP2E , VP2EEW,
VP9AD, J6DX,VP5FXB ,PJ2T and PJ2Z.
I love travelling to the Caribbean and try to make a trip down there whenever the time and
expenses allow it. Recently I have also been dabbling in doing some VHF operating on 6 ,
2, and 432 MHz. Check out my photo page for pictures of my station and of some of the
interesting places I have operated from.
I am an alumni of Ohio
State University and presently live in Columbus,
Ohio with my lovely wife, Jan, and our 2 sons Andrew and Randy. I work for a
major financial services company as a Lotus Notes/Domino developer.
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This page was last updated on 01/04/01.
