Biography

Note: JT-X Alert shows me as being Guam. All my documentation has been submitted to show that I have moved from Maryland to Alabama. I have requested the JT-X Alert database be corrected. Waiting on that to happen... 73's de Rod, KH2GM

I was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico in September of 1955. After graduating from high school and doing a couple of years of college, I joined the US Navy in 1975 as an enlisted sailor in the Nuclear Power Program. After completing basic training, and the two year Nuclear Power training pipeline, I was assigned to the USS George Washington (SSBN 598). On board the George Wasshington I qualified in Submarines. After the Washington, I served as an Instructor at Nuclear Power Training Unit (NPTU), Ballston Spa, NY, and from there went to the USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN-709). I was onboard Rickover when I was commissioned as a Limited Duty Officer (LDO) in July of 1985.

From 1985 on I served in Submarine Squadron's/Group staff's and as part of Ship Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facilities in New London, CT; Kings Bay, GA and; Apra Harbor, Guam managing. At those facilitis I planned and executed repair work on nuclear submarines and surface ships until my retirement in 1999 as a Lieutenant Commander from Submarine Squadron 20 in Kings Bay, GA.

Since my retirement I have worked in the IT field doing implementation of SAP and IFS Software products first as a consultant, then as a Project and Program manager, and finally at the Executive level.

Both my military career and my post retirement have involved a lot of traveling so I have been lucky to have visited most of the United States and quite a few countries around the world. Definitely not in depth, but enough exposure to get to understand how different things can be in other parts of the world.

Call progresion: WP4BXP > N1DRS > KH2GM > KC3MEK > KH2GM

I got my first license, as a novice, in 1982 as WP4BXP from my native Puerto Rico, which I changed to N1DRS when I upgraded to General class status while living in Connecticut from 1983-1988. I kept the same callsign/license when I moved to the state of Georgia in 1989, where I stayed until 1992. From Georgia I moved to Guam in 1992 and changed my license to KH2GM. I did very little operating from Guam due to my work commitments, and ultimately went QRT in 1998. I did renew my license in 2003 but let it expire in 2013. I got back into the hobby in October of 2018 and had to get a new license, so I got KC3MEK, then found my old call was available as a vanity callsign, so requested it and got it from the FCC in November 3rd of 2018.

I am married with no children living in Athens, AL with my beautiful wife Yoko.

Thanks for visiting and 73's to you and yours!



Rod/KH2GM

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

My Station: TS480HX feeding a Super Antenna MP1DXTR80 HF Superwhip. Using HRD, WSJT-X and JT-X Alert as software. Audio Interface is an Signalink USB and the computer is an HPEnvy with 8GB RAM and 2.6MHZ clock speed. Have a VHF/UHF/6M TS720 Rig, but don't use it much... Spend the majority of my operating time on FT-8. Able to operate rig from anywhere using "GoToMyPC" as my remote link software.