Biography

First licensed in 1956 at age 11 as K8BQD in Michigan. Licensed as G5AIV in the UK in 1966. Relicensed as AB1JK and subsequently as W1LWH in Belmont, Massachusetts, located 5 km from Boston. Operate mostly CW on 80m, 40 m, 30m, 20m, 17m, 15m, 12m and 10m bands; interested in DX, contests and wire antennas. Emeritus Professor of Materials Science and Professor of Nuclear Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Also operate from alternative QTH in Warren, VT in the Mad River Valley of the beautiful Green Mountains of northern Vermont, where I do Alpine skiing.

Equipment

HF station in MA: Kenwood TS-830S, TS-930S, TS-940S, TS-950SDX, TS-850S, TS-870, TS-2000, Elecraft K-3 and Yaesu FT-2000 and FT-1000MP MkV transceivers, Kenwood TL-922 and ACOM 1000 linear amplifiers and single-band 2x813 linear amplifiers for 80m, 40m, 20m, 15m, 10m. Currently running 500W-1kW into two 7MHz open-wire-fed half-square antennas (2-element phased verticals) in phased array; also 4-element M2 KT34M2 and Hy-Gain 3-element 20-15-10m tribanders at 12m height; 6m: 1000W into a 4-element yagi; 2m: 100 W into 11-element log periodic array. Also, historic Collins S-line station: 32S-3, 75S-3B, 30L-1, KWM-2A, KWM-2. HF station in VT: Kenwood TS-940S, 100 W into a 7 MHz dipole sloping towards Europe.Member: MIT Radio Society (W1MX), founded 1909. Member: ARRL (since 1956). Member: CWOps No. 551. Member: Collins Collectors Association. Member: Yankee Clipper Contest Club (YCCC).