Biography

George earned his technician class license while attending (1965-1969) Chaminade High School in Mineola, NY. George upgraded to Extra Class in 2008.
He started his career at WLIR-FM and worked his way up to Chief Engineer. He subsequently went to Fairchild Space & Defense Systems where he worked on radio direction finding systems, high performance receivers, and tactical jammers.
George then became the Chief Engineer of Telecare, an educational TV station; simultaneously he worked as prime-time master control engineer for WLIW-TV21; he left Telecare for a career at Grumman, eventually becoming the lead network architect for Northrop Grumman Corp (NGC). He was selected as a NGC Technical Fellow in 2002 and retired in 2015.
George earned his bachelor’s degree from Hofstra University, and his master’s degree from Polytechnic University. He was (1993-2016) an adjunct professor at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering (formerly Polytechnic University). He is a Life Senior IEEE member and an occasional lecturer at IEEE LI Section meetings.
He serves as a LIMARC (Long Island Mobile Amateur Radio Club) vice-president, is a certified ARRL and W5YI volunteer examiner, and an ARRL registered amateur radio licensing instructor. He serves as a judge for Long Island Science and Engineering Fair (LISEF). He is a registered Merit Badge Counselor in electricity, electronics, and radio for the Theodore Roosevelt Council Scouting America (formerly BSA). He is the trustee for the Grumman Amateur Radio Club (GARC) station WA2LQO and its two repeaters, one in Hempstead (146.745) and the other in Hauppauge NY. (145.33)
George is married to Carolyn; they have 3 children and 4 grandchildren, and live in Hicksville, NY. His other interests include audio engineering, classical and choral music, pipe organs, electronics, scouting, computing, travel, and bicycling.

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

His station consists of an:

ICOM 7300 transceiver
MFJ993B, antenna tuner
AnyTone 578, tri-band analog/DMR mobile radio
BTech 5x3 triband HT.

The antennas are a 10 foot high fan dipole and
a 25 foot high VHF/UHF vertical collinear.