Hello and welcome to my web site!

My name is Bob Lang and I live in Jarrettsville, Maryland.  I was introduced to the ham radio hobby in 1963 by Warren Oliver, W3HPV at the age of 12 receiving my Novice Class License WN3DUR.  The Novice class at that time was good for one year and you upgraded or lost your license.  The following year I achieved the highest class license at that time, the General Class, and had full spectrum privileges with the associated call change to WA3DUR.  Later, thanks to the ARRL and their incentive licensing programming,  I had to upgrade to the Advanced to regain most of the phone privileges that the ARRL and FCC took away from the General class. 

With the FCC allowing us to pick a vanity call sign I decided to upgrade to extra and shorten my call sign to N3UR.  Boy, what a difference it has made in contesting and just QSOing in general !