In the past, I've served in a variety of positions, including editor of the Golden Empire Amateur Radio Society (GEARS) newsletter, ARRL Emergency Coordinator (Fremont, CA), and evening net control on the Western Public Service System (3.952 Mhz).

I'm currently the Bulletin Manager for the Santa Clara Valley Section of the ARRL, which is essentially the same as webmaster these days. I'm also active in the CDF VIP program (see below).

I still like to do a bit of contesting from time to time, especially if it can be combined with some camping. Finding a site that requires 4WD to get in makes the outing that much more interesting. :-)

Field Day has been an annual outing for me since before I received my Novice license, and is still my biggest annual radio "event". The field day group that I'm associated with has been together since 1977. A few of us decided that, since Field Day was supposed to be a demonstration of operation without commercial power, why not operate in the forest? And so we turned Field Day into an annual camping trip.

A small number of us have been doing the "Field Day Camping Trip" since the beginning. Countless others have joined us for anywhere from one to 20+ years. We tend to average about 20 attendees per year.