Former Call Signs are K3SWL, KC3QS, W2VHF and K3BN.

AF MARS Calls held were AFA3SWL (Dayton, Ohio) and AK1EV (Fairbanks, Alaska).

Former Member of the Arctic Amateur Radio CLub, KL7KC. Show QSL Card


Current Member of the Reading Radio Club, W3BN, of Reading, PA.



Former Member of the WeLaurel Pilot's Club.

Current Member of the Mid Atlantic Air Museum. Click here

Member of the Hallicrafters Collectors Association.

Member of the USAF Museum

Member of the Air Force Association.

Lifetime Member of the Air Force Communicators and Air Traffic Controllers Association.

Served in the US Air Force from April 1961 to April 1965. Signed up in the 'buddy program' where you and a friend would go through Basic Training together. It didn't work out that way for me. I was told that 'the needs of the military' determined that my friend went in March and I went in April. Bummer.

A few weeks later during a rainy Sunday afternoon, we were given base liberty and we headed for the base theater. I stopped at my friends squadron and asked the clerk in the orderly room about my friend. I was told that he was in the base hospital suffering from a nervous breakdown.

At the end of Basic Training, I received orders for Airborne Electronic Countermeasures Technician.

And sent to Keesler AFB in Biloxi, MS for Electronics school and then school for the specific equipment that I would be expected to maintain.

My school was starting in two weeks so I was givien make work details in the meantime. Shortly before my school was to start, I received a new set of orders assigning me to Radio and Radar School for GCA ATC Ground Radar.

I had to wait for another two weeks for my school to start. During that time, I was working in the chow hall checking chow hall passes so that only airmen assigned to that chow hall could eat there.

At graduation time, I was commended for having the highest cum average in my class of 40 guys. As a result, I was assigned to Keesler AFB for the rest of my enlistment as an electronics instructor. Fortunately, the guy with the second highest average asked if we could switch since he had a girlfriend in Biloxi and didn't want to leave her.

The First Sergeant agreed and I soon received new orders assigning me to Eielson AFB near Fairbanks, Alaska.