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Last updated:  06/18/2004

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    Thanks for stopping by! 

    My personal history:  

May 1999	I received my Novice license - KB3DVA - about 6 weeks after my 9th birthday.   I passed the code on "solid copy" with 44-45 characters in a row.  Four days after I got my license in the mail, I dropped off my application for my vanity call enroute to my first Dayton Hamvention as a ham.  I've gone every year since then.
June 1999	Received my new call - KE3RLR
August 1999	I upgraded to Tech Plus when I passed the Technician exam in Colorado while visiting my Grandma.  I made my first 2M contact  from the top of an extinct volcano (Mt Capulin) near Raton, NM using a Kenwood TH-28 with a rubber duckie.  It sure helps a lot when the antenna is about 8,000 feet high!  My first HF contact was with a station in Argentina on 10m.
April 2000	Upgraded to General
April 2001	Received a new call - K3RLR
May 2002	I was invited to speak at the Youth Forum at Dayton along with another AARC Jr club member.
April 2004	Upgraded to Amateur Extra
May 2004	Received a new call - AE3RR

          I'm a member of the Anne Arundel Radio Club in Davidsonville, MD.  I'm also a charter member in the Anne Arundel Radio club, Jr. which is an amateur radio club just for kids (Club call = KI3DS).  AARC Jr sponsors a radio contest just for kids during the first weekend in April.  Check out the info at the AARC Jr website for the rules, forms and a free logging program developed just for the contest.  The contest is called "Kids Roundup" and should be lots of fun.  Hope to hear you in April!

        My Mom (KB3ATI), Dad (AA3RR), and Uncle (AG4RR) are all Amateur Extra class hams.  My Aunt (KG4GGA ) has a General class license.  Although he made Extra class before I did, I got my license before my uncle Gary (AG4RR) got his ticket.

     I'm a Life Member of the 10-10 Club and I'm also a Life Member of the ARRL.  Shortly after I became a Life Member of the ARRL  I received a plaque from the ARRL in honor of my 60th anniversary of being a ham radio operator (Not too bad when you consider that I was only 11 yrs old at the time).  Obviously I was supposed to have received my Life Member plaque and eventually (about two weeks later) I did.  I still have the 60 Year plaque.  I wonder if I can use that as proof of age so I can join the Quarter Century Wireless Association?

    I enjoy contests, Field Day, and public service events.  During my first public service event (The Diabetes Walk in Annapolis, MD) I had donuts before we started, cookies during the event, pizza after the event and I even got a free massage!  A word of warning:  All public service events are not like my first experience!

    I'm also a fan of the University of Michigan Wolverine football team.  In Sep 03 my parents and I got to see them play at the "Big House" in Ann Arbor, MI along with 110,715 other fans.  It was awesome! Go Blue!  We plan to go back every year.

    Our station at home is not real fancy - A Kenwood TS-870 into a multi-band dipole up about 30 ft and a Cushcraft R-7 mounted on the roof - but one or all of us have managed to work Japan, Korea, Antarctica, Heard Island, all of South America, most of Africa, many countries in the South Pacific and nearly all of Europe.  Between the three of us we've probably worked 250 countries with 225 confirmed. 

    I am currently a First Class Boy Scout working on my upgrade to "Star".

    I hope to hear you on the air real soon!  If you have any comments or suggestions, please click on my call sign, below.  Thanks again for stopping by.

73

Ryan - AE3RR