NT2W's Web Page

Welcome to the NT2W Website

With many apologies---- I've committed the worst sin of web authoring. I've allowed this site to get woefully out of date, with the last major update being 2002! I'm working on updating the page, so check back soon.

NT2W in the Shack

A little background on me:

I was licensed in late January 1993 as N2TNW, with a Technician Plus ticket. I immediately upgraded to General in February 1993, to Advanced in April and then the Amateur Extra class during the summer (I think it was August).

In May of 1997, I decided to spend some money and confuse everyone who knew me by getting the vanity call NT2W.

The rest is history...

My interest in Amateur Radio came from Shortwave Listening (SWL), which I began doing in the fall of 1990.

I enjoy operating CW most of all, although I have enjoyed experimenting with the digital modes including RTTY, PacTOR and PSK31. I was an active contester and member of the Northern New York Contest Club... which was active through about 2003. I'm currently Secretary of the North Country Amateur Radio Club, and trustee of its club call, W2LCA. I'm a member of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) and FISTS- the Morse Code Preservation Society.

I enjoy operating portable, often taking a radio when I'm on vacation. One of my favorite places to get on the air is as NT2W/VE2, portable in Quebec, where I spend a weekend annually cross-country skiing and a week in the summer relaxing at a cottage with my family. I like running low power and using homebrewed antenna systems, so CW is generally my mode of choice to get out the best signal with the compromise station.

I'm the contact/liaison Volunteer Examiner for the Clarkson University Electronics Society (K2CC) exam team, which hosts ham radio licensure exams four times a year on the Clarkson campus in Potsdam.

You can hear me most often on 70cm or 2m mobile FM as my job requires much time in the car. I hang out on the K2CC (at Clarkson University, my alma mater) 2m/70cm repeater in Potsdam, or the "workhorse" of St Lawrence County the KA2JXI 2m repeater. I'm a semi-regular checkin on the "Q-net" on the KA2JXI repeater nightly at 18:30 local, and occasionally make the "Rooster Roster" on the KA2QJO repeater in Watertown when passing through. Sunday mornings, I'm often net control station of the more than ten-year-old "North Country Group" which insists it's not a net but rather an informal HF ragchew starting at 08:30 local on 3958kHz plus or minus.

Outside amateur radio, my interests include motorcycling, cross country skiing, bicycling, golf and sailing. I'm a member of the Harley Owners Group, the American Motorcyclist Association and I'm a life member of the National Rifle Association.

More info will follow as I update the page.

Here's my station equipment.

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