Daniel Brown, W1DAN
Dan Brown W1DAN has been licensed since 1978 and is a past president of the Wellesley Amateur Radio Society.

Rob Macedo, KD1CY
Rob Macedo, KD1CY, was born and raised in Saratoga Springs, NY, and moved to New Bedford, MA, for college in 1991, where he attended UMass-Dartmouth and graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree. He works at Dell Technologies where he has been for over 30 years. Rob is a senior principal hardware engineer on Technical Staff and former Director of System Integration in the Device Engineering (DE) department where he previously managed a global team of engineers working on disk drive and Solid State Drive evaluation in Dell-EMC products and now is a technical lead in this area working with the same global team of system integration engineers. Rob has always had a very strong interest in technology, meteorology, emergency management, emergency and public service event communications. Rob has been the Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES) SKYWARN Coordinator for NWS Boston/Norton (previously Taunton) for 30 years and is the Eastern Massachusetts ARES Section Emergency Coordinator. When he is not at work or doing Amateur Radio public service, emergency communications and weather spotting volunteer work, Rob enjoys movies, shows, time with family and friends, as well as sporting events.

Jimmy Suprenant AB1DQ
Andy (KB1OIQ) Stewart holds an Amateur Extra license and has enjoyed the hobby for more than 15 years. Andy has an MSEE degree from WPI with a focus on computer engineering. He retired in August 2024. Andy participates in many facets of our wide ranging hobby including POTA, kit building, fox hunting, and chasing DX stations. Andy's workbench is covered with projects ranging from Arduino and Raspberry Pi circuits to old tube radios.

Jimmy Suprenant AB1DQ
Biographies from the various volunteers will go here.

Terry Stader, KA8SCP
D-STAR system owner/admin for several MA/NH D-STAR repeaters. Administer several REFxxx and XLXxxx multimode/multiprotocol reflectors.

Bradshaw Lupton, K1TE
Dhiru Kholia was first licensed as VU3CER in 2019. He received a BE degree in Electronics & Telecommunication from Pune University in 2006. He then pursued a career in software security engineering with various MNC firms. He became interested in electronics again after a long gap due to his growing passion for hardware security. Besides amateur radio, he enjoys table tennis, chess, releasing miscellaneous projects on GitHub, and reverse-engineering software and hardware stuff.Bradshaw Lupton, K1TE, was licensed as WA2IVF in 1968. He was an engineer at Honeywell and Polaroid for 33 years, and a physics and chemistry teacher in the Boston area for 11 years. Bradshaw advises the Sandwich STEM Academy and has developed WSPR/FT8 STEM classes for the Chatham Marconi RCA museum. His STEM students are learning the power of WSJTX digital with 3.3v and 1/100 watt making it, occasionally, from Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts to Melbourne, Australia.

Bradshaw Lupton, K1TE
Dhiru Kholia was first licensed as VU3CER in 2019. He received a BE degree in Electronics & Telecommunication from Pune University in 2006. He then pursued a career in software security engineering with various MNC firms. He became interested in electronics again after a long gap due to his growing passion for hardware security. Besides amateur radio, he enjoys table tennis, chess, releasing miscellaneous projects on GitHub, and reverse-engineering software and hardware stuff.Bradshaw Lupton, K1TE, was licensed as WA2IVF in 1968. He was an engineer at Honeywell and Polaroid for 33 years, and a physics and chemistry teacher in the Boston area for 11 years. Bradshaw advises the Sandwich STEM Academy and has developed WSPR/FT8 STEM classes for the Chatham Marconi RCA museum. His STEM students are learning the power of WSJTX digital with 3.3v and 1/100 watt making it, occasionally, from Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts to Melbourne, Australia.

Don Rolph, AB1PH
Don Rolph was first licensed in 1961 as WH6EHQ. He was relicenced in the 1970s as WA2CNM. He was licensed as AB1PH in 2012.

bradshaw lupton, K1TE
Automated Astronomy; Android & iOS apps with ChatGPT as intern; WSPR/FT8/JS8Call extensions; Gas Chromatography; Algae; Small Solar projects. WB2TEV Radio Club Shrewsbury & Buzzards Bay, MA piRshared.

(Registration at 0830)
A locally-generated "Contest University" based on, and approved by the originators of Dayton's CTU.

Jimmy Surprenant AB1DQ, Mark Noe, KE1IU, Rob Jackson N1RWJ
First licensed 24 years ago at the age of 36, Jimmy fulfilled a lifelong dream of becoming an amateur radio operator; something that should have happened earlier in life given his childhood obsession with radio and electronics. Better late than never! As a licensed ham, Jimmy enjoys melting solder, operating QRP, CW & POTA. He is a former officer and currently an active member of the Meriden (CT) Amateur Radio Club where he publishes the monthly newsletter, KeyKlix, and also coordinates the club's annual license review class.

Bruce Blain, K1BG
K1BG has been a ham for over 50 years. He's past president of the Nashoba Valley ARC and the Norwood ARC, and is the ARRL Affiliated Club Coordinator for Eastern Massachusetts.

Bob Phinney, K5TEC
Bob retired from 38 years of teaching at a private school in Brookline, MA. He taught after-school STEM classes, radio and electronics courses, classical LATIN, math, photography, and science. In 2014 he founded New England Amateur Radio, Inc. (NE1AR), a non-profit to develop wireless educational curricula, as well as provide regular or on-call VE sessions. In 2018 he founded New England Sci-Tech, a non-profit STEM education center that teaches electronics and wireless communications with an emphasis on getting youth into the amateur radio hobby.

Greg Algieri, WA1JXR
WA1JXR, began his Amateur Radio journey by asking his Dad for a Blue 'Gillette Razor Blade' to make his first diode receiver, which lead him to get his Amateur Radio license, higher electronics education, and an entire career with Raytheon, where he worked in radio and antenna design. Greg is active in the Amateur Radio community as a teacher for new and existing hams, restoring vintage radios, and getting on-the-air. He's been a member of NEQRP since its beginnings. Teacher for Long Island CW Club, ARRL WMA Assistant Section Manager and Technical Coordinator.

Fred Hopengarten, Esq., K1VR and W. Dale Clift, Esq., NA1L
Atty. Clift is a graduate of Penn State and UConn Law. He is Corporation Counsel for the City of Bristol, CT, so he has an excellent understanding of zoning from the city's perspective. He also maintains a private practice. In his youth, he worked at ARRL HQ.

Jay Taft, K1EHZ
First licensed in 1958 as KN1EHZ. Currently I am involved with the Merrimack Valley Amateur Radio Association, Inc., a 501(c)3 charitable corporation. Our main project is building a microwave network in New Hampshire and adjacent states to support amateur radio activities such as DMR, Winlink, emergency communications, spectrum defense and community events.

Max Kendall, W0MXX
Max is a rising 10th grader at Medway High School. He is the vice-president of STARS radio club at New England Sci-Tech, the president of the 4-H Science Explorers, a mentor at the Medway Library Arduino club and STEAM classes, and founder of the New England Weather Balloon Society. He earned his Extra license in 2021. He enjoys working with robotics and electronics, and has been tinkering since he was a toddler. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge with other kids and adults alike. He teaches many classes and workshops at New England Sci-Tech, an educational non-profit. He also enjoys eating sushi, reading classics, math, and climbing.

Greg Algieri, WA1JXR
WA1JXR, began his Amateur Radio journey by asking his Dad for a Blue 'Gillette Razor Blade' to make his first diode receiver, which lead him to get his Amateur Radio license, higher electronics education, and an entire career with Raytheon, where he worked in radio and antenna design. Greg is active in the Amateur Radio community as a teacher for new and existing hams, restoring vintage radios, and getting on-the-air. He's been a member of NEQRP since its beginnings. Teacher for Long Island CW Club, ARRL WMA Assistant Section Manager and Technical Coordinator.

Corey Ruth, KD3CR
Corey Ruth, KD3CR, is the past president (2020-2025) of the Queen Annes Amateur Radio Club in Centreville, MD. Hes also a member of Queen Annes County RACES and Potomac Valley Radio Club. Living in an HOA-restricted townhouse, he has a keen interest in stealth antennas, believing that every ham, regardless of location, should be able to experience the joy of working the HF bands.

Rob Macedo, KD1CY
Rob Macedo, KD1CY, was born and raised in Saratoga Springs, NY, and moved to New Bedford, MA, for college in 1991, where he attended UMass-Dartmouth and graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree. He works at Dell Technologies where he has been for over 30 years. Rob is a senior principal hardware engineer on Technical Staff and former Director of System Integration in the Device Engineering (DE) department where he previously managed a global team of engineers working on disk drive and Solid State Drive evaluation in Dell-EMC products and now is a technical lead in this area working with the same global team of system integration engineers. Rob has always had a very strong interest in technology, meteorology, emergency management, emergency and public service event communications. Rob has been the Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES) SKYWARN Coordinator for NWS Boston/Norton (previously Taunton) for 30 years and is the Eastern Massachusetts ARES Section Emergency Coordinator. When he is not at work or doing Amateur Radio public service, emergency communications and weather spotting volunteer work, Rob enjoys movies, shows, time with family and friends, as well as sporting events.

Anne Manna, WB1ARU
Speakers will be Barb Irby, KC1KGS and Diane Ortiz, K2DO.

Max Freedman, N4ML
Max Freedman, N4ML, is one of the next generation of Amateur Radio operators. Licensed in 2016, at age 12, he has become an active contester and DXer, a 2026 WRTC competitor, Caribbean Contesting Consortium Member, and has activated rare DXCC countries like Bouvet Island as part of the 3YØK team. Max is active member in the YCCC, NCDXF, INDEXA, SEDXC, and the local Newington Amateur Radio League. He has made a vocation out of his avocation, working full time at the ARRL’s Education and Learning Department. Max is involved in the Teacher’s Institute and other programs.

Bob Phinney, K5TEC
Bob retired from 38 years of teaching at a private school in Brookline, MA. He taught after-school STEM classes, radio and electronics courses, classical LATIN, math, photography, and science. In 2014 he founded New England Amateur Radio, Inc. (NE1AR), a non-profit to develop wireless educational curricula, as well as provide regular or on-call VE sessions. In 2018 he founded New England Sci-Tech, a non-profit STEM education center that teaches electronics and wireless communications with an emphasis on getting youth into the amateur radio hobby.

Mindy Hull, KM1NDY
Licensed in 2019, KM1NDY was inspired to get involved in Summits-On-The-Air by Steve WG0AT's fascinating goat-packing videos and incredible CW hilltopping.  KM1NDY currently sits in 12th place in the New England division of the SOTA program with over

Tim Duffy, K3LR
K3LR, Tim has been an active amateur radio operator for over 53 years starting as WN3SZX in 1972. He has hosted over 200 different ham radio operators from around the world as part of the K3LR Multi operator Multi transmitter radio sport contest efforts since 1992.K3LR has built a 14 tower station with 11 operating positions. He was the ARRL Atlantic Division Technical Achievement award winner in 1998. K3LR serves as chairman of Contest University (19 years), the Dayton Contest Dinner (32 years), chairman of the Top Band Dinner as well as co-coordinator of the Contest Super Suite (39 years) in Dayton during the yearly Dayton Hamvention. K3LR is in the Amateur Radio Hall of Fame and the Contest Hall of Fame. Tim is the Chief Executive Officer of DX Engineering. He is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University.

Terry Stader, KA8SCP
D-STAR system owner/admin for several MA/NH D-STAR repeaters. Administer several REFxxx and XLXxxx multimode/multiprotocol reflectors.

Andy Stewart, KB1OIQ
Andy (KB1OIQ) Stewart holds an Amateur Extra license and has enjoyed the hobby for more than 15 years. Andy has an MSEE degree from WPI with a focus on computer engineering. He retired in August 2024. Andy participates in many facets of our wide ranging hobby including POTA, kit building, fox hunting, and chasing DX stations. Andy's workbench is covered with projects ranging from Arduino and Raspberry Pi circuits to old tube radios.

Zachary Sherman, KC1NXK
Long before he heard of amateur radio, Zachary enjoyed playing with FRS walkie-talkies with friends. Sent home from Olin College due to Covid, he became a Technician licensee in September 2020. Zachary soon became a co-leader of the Olin Collegiate Amateur Radio Club, helping students earn their radio licenses then volunteer for public service events. Zachary graduated in 2023 and now works as a biomedical engineer. Zachary enjoys community amateur radio events at New England Sci-Tech in Natick, MA, making contacts via the ISS repeater, studying for his General license test, and working on his mobile radio installation. He is currently president of the Sci-Tech Amateur Radio Society (STARS).

Douglas Sharafanowich, WA1SFH
Current CT Section Manager. First Licensed as a Novice in 1971 and then a General in 1972. Douglas has held leadership positions as Section Youth Coordinator and CT ARES District Emergency Coordinator (DEC) in Region 2 (South-Central CT). He has also been active with the National Traffic System (NTS) in local VHF/HF nets. Douglas has also supported many Public Service Events over the years, and enjoys POTA activations.

Mike Corey, KI1U
Mike Corey is an Emergency Management Specialist with FEMA Region 1 and works in the Mission Support Division with the Disaster Emergency Communications Team. His primary areas of responsibility include emergency alerts and warnings, IPAWS/NAWAS, communications planning, and auxiliary communications. He is an ICS instructor, an Operations Branch Director with Region 1 collateral Incident Management Assistance Team (IMAT), and qualified Continuous Improvement Advisor Lead. He has been with FEMA since 2021. Prior to FEMA he served as Emergency Preparedness Coordinator at ARRL and as a Communications Officer at the University of Mississippi Police Department and Howard County Indiana Sheriffs Office. He is an active amateur radio operator, callsign KI1U.

Ronald Evett, N1QY
Ron is a retired radar engineer. He is active in DX, contests, and county hunting. He has managed to fit 3 dipoles and 2 verticals on his 100 by 100 foot lot.

Bob Josuweit, WA3PZO
Bob Josuweit, WA3PZO, has been licensed since 1970. He coordinates WM3PEN activities during the 13 Colonies Special Event and the 2026 World Soccer Tournament. He served as the Public Service Columnist for CQ Amateur Radio from 2000 - 2009. Previously he wrote the public service column for CQ VHF. He also has had articles appear in Popular Communications, Conformity, and 9-1-1 to name a few. He served on the ARRL Public Relations Committee, and was past chairman of the ARRL Emergency Communications Advisory Committee. He is a past Eastern Pennsylvania Section Emergency Coordinator, Assistant Section Manager and Affiliated Club Coordinator. Bob was a member of the 1980 Winter Olympic Torch Relay Team (Olympia, Greece to Lake Placid, NY). He is trustee of WM3PEN and treasurer of the Holmesburg Amateur Radio Club in Philadelphia.

Bob Phinney, K5TEC
Bob retired from 38 years of teaching at a private school in Brookline, MA. He taught after-school STEM classes, radio and electronics courses, classical LATIN, math, photography, and science. In 2014 he founded New England Amateur Radio, Inc. (NE1AR), a non-profit to develop wireless educational curricula, as well as provide regular or on-call VE sessions. In 2018 he founded New England Sci-Tech, a non-profit STEM education center that teaches electronics and wireless communications with an emphasis on getting youth into the amateur radio hobby.

Andy Stewart, KB1OIQ
Andy (KB1OIQ) Stewart holds an Amateur Extra license and has enjoyed the hobby for more than 15 years. Andy has an MSEE degree from WPI with a focus on computer engineering. He retired in August 2024. Andy participates in many facets of our wide ranging hobby including POTA, kit building, fox hunting, and chasing DX stations. Andy's workbench is covered with projects ranging from Arduino and Raspberry Pi circuits to old tube radios.

Eric Swartz, WA6HHQ
Eric Swartz, WA6HHQ, is Elecraft's CEO, a co-designer of Elecraft's K4, K3S, K2 and other Elecraft products. He co-founded Elecraft in 1998 with Wayne Burdick, N6KR. Licensed for over 54 years, his early interest in Amateur Radio led him to a career in electronic design and management. He received his B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science (Electronics) from Yale University in 1979 and has been involved in a number of successful Silicon Valley startups. Prior to Elecraft, Eric was co-founder and President of Verisys, a test equipment manufacturer of high-performance protocol analyzers for the computer and mass storage market.Wayne and Eric also jointly received the ARRL's Technical Excellence Award for their Elecraft radio designs.

Jonathan Slawsby, W5GI
Jonathan Slawsby was born and raised in the Boston area. In January of 2024 he received his Technician"s Class license following on with his General and Extra licenses over the course of the next month. In his 2 plus years of being an operator Jonathan has owned over 40 different radios, from very basic HT's to some of the highest end SDR's. His interests include DX chasing, FT8 as well as POTA operations. He operates both in the US and in the British Virgin Islands under VP2V/W5GI call. He completed a kilo at park VG-0021 before any other operator had avtivated the park.

Terry Stader, KA8SCP
D-STAR system owner/admin for several MA/NH D-STAR repeaters. Administer several REFxxx and XLXxxx multimode/multiprotocol reflectors.

Michael Thompson, K1PDP
Michael Thompson is a longtime volunteer and board member at the New England Wireless & Steam Museum in East Greenwich, RI. He is a semi-retired electrical engineer who also vlunteers at the Rhode Island Computer Museum.

Alan Kline, KB1DJ
I converted an Antique Jeep Wrangler to a ECOMM Vehicle. Articlee was in both QST and on the Long Island CW Club Zooms.

Dennis Markell, N1IMW
Licensed since 1991, N1imw has been SM since Oct 2026. Vintage rigs and qrp operating are key points of interest.

Rob Macedo, KD1CY
Rob Macedo, KD1CY, was born and raised in Saratoga Springs, NY, and moved to New Bedford, MA, for college in 1991, where he attended UMass-Dartmouth and graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree. He works at Dell Technologies where he has been for over 30 years. Rob is a senior principal hardware engineer on Technical Staff and former Director of System Integration in the Device Engineering (DE) department where he previously managed a global team of engineers working on disk drive and Solid State Drive evaluation in Dell-EMC products and now is a technical lead in this area working with the same global team of system integration engineers. Rob has always had a very strong interest in technology, meteorology, emergency management, emergency and public service event communications. Rob has been the Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES) SKYWARN Coordinator for NWS Boston/Norton (previously Taunton) for 30 years and is the Eastern Massachusetts ARES Section Emergency Coordinator. When he is not at work or doing Amateur Radio public service, emergency communications and weather spotting volunteer work, Rob enjoys movies, shows, time with family and friends, as well as sporting events.

Burns Fisher, WB1FJ
W. Burns Fisher Jr (WB1FJ) has had a lifelong interest in radio and electronics, including giving himself a pretend call sign as a young boy (WBFJ), and being a DJ and the chief engineer of a college FM radio station. He has also had a lifelong interest in satellites and outer space. After retiring from his job as a software engineer developing operating systems, he got a REAL amateur call sign and started volunteering for AMSAT, the Radio Amateur Satellite Corp, where he finally is fulfilling a lifelong dream to work on orbital satellites. He was the lead flight software developer for the Fox series of satellites, and is currently developing software for the Golf and FoxPlus series.

Tom Frenaye, K1KI
ARRL New England Division Director

Bob Hassett, KB1IVG
Mr. Hassett is a native of Springfield, MA. He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Environmental Engineering from Norwich University, a Master of Public Health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a Graduate Certificate in Disaster Management from Georgia State University. He is a retired U.S. Army Medical Serevice Corps Officer. During his military career he served in a wide variety of operational and technical assignments. Following retirement, he was the Director of the Office of Emergency Prepared ness for Springfield, MA, Project Officer for the Metropolitan Medical Response System and is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Public Health & Health Professions at Springfield College. Mr. Hassett was awarded the Emergency Manager of The Year for 2012 by the Northeast States Emergency Consortium.

Robert Nazro, W1RPQ
Robert Nazro W1RPQ. Member ARRL, Amateur Extra. Retired Systems Engineer US Navy.

Michael Walker, VA3MW
Mike, a seasoned technophile, obtained his amateur radio license in 1974 and has been enamored with technology ever since. His journey into the world of technology began with his first "real" job at IBM, where he worked on an impressive Tube computer. Thi

William Cook Jr, W1FMX
First licensed with a Novice Class license in 1969 as Wn2FMX, I became a General in 1970 with the call, WA2FMX. After moving to Connecticut in 1991,I was issued the N1LJQ call sign, but after finally taking the Extra Exam in 2021 (after over 50 years as a Ham!), requested W1FMX as a call to "close the circle." I am a retired professor who taught at a State University for more than 27 years, but also worked in construction (electrical work) and had a business installing telephone, intercom, CCTV, and fire/security alarm systems in NYC before that. I built my first Heathkit in 1968 and have restored a variety of Heathkit Ham equipment over the past 7 years.

Steven Chapman, KB1RLF
Steven Chapman, KB1RLF, is the Chief Park Ranger for the Town of Trumbull, Connecticut, and a former police officer and natural resources officer with over 20 years of experience in the states of Massachusetts and Ohio. He holds a 4th degree Black Belt in Taekwondo, national and State of Connecticut-issued EMT licenses, and Red Cross Certified Instructor status. He volunteers his time as a 2nd LT in the 143rd Composite Squadron of the Connecticut Civil Air Patrol with a focus on emergency services and aerospace education, and as a 2nd LT with the Second Company Governors Horse Guard in Connecticut.

Max Kendall, W0MXX
Max is a rising 10th grader at Medway High School. He is the vice-president of STARS radio club at New England Sci-Tech, the president of the 4-H Science Explorers, a mentor at the Medway Library Arduino club and STEAM classes, and founder of the New England Weather Balloon Society. He earned his Extra license in 2021. He enjoys working with robotics and electronics, and has been tinkering since he was a toddler. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge with other kids and adults alike. He teaches many classes and workshops at New England Sci-Tech, an educational non-profit. He also enjoys eating sushi, reading classics, math, and climbing.

Marcia Forde, KW1U
Marcia Forde KW1U, Section Traffic Manager for Eastern and Western Mass and Rhode Island, having held various leadership positions in NTS over the past 45 years, including section CW net manager, Eastern Area net manager, TCC Director and Eastern Area Staff Chair.

Howard Chain, K9NPD
With over 40 years of experience as a licensed amateur radio operator, I have served as Net Control for hundreds of HAM and ARES events, including ​planned ARES Public Service Events,​Communications emergencies, the annual Simulated Emergency Tests, and the Boston Marathon​ as a Ham and with public safety agencies. In addition to my volunteer work, I consult on communication pre-planning for the Boston Marathon​, and have worked directly with government agencies as a Communications Specialist, Group Leader, Communication​ Supervisor, and ​currently as a radio communications consultant.Complementing my technical background, I am ​was a call firefighter and I am a retired police officer with 25 years of experience training urban law enforcement and public safety agencies. I also hold degrees in Electrical Engineering and Business Marketing, allowing me to bring both technical expertise and strategic planning to public safety communications.

Bob Phinney, K5TEC
Bob retired from 38 years of teaching at a private school in Brookline, MA. He taught after-school STEM classes, radio and electronics courses, classical LATIN, math, photography, and science. In 2014 he founded New England Amateur Radio, Inc. (NE1AR), a non-profit to develop wireless educational curricula, as well as provide regular or on-call VE sessions. In 2018 he founded New England Sci-Tech, a non-profit STEM education center that teaches electronics and wireless communications with an emphasis on getting youth into the amateur radio hobby.

Ken Caruso, WO1N
The Yankee Clipper Contest Club is a special-purpose amateur radio club devoted to the pursuit of operating and technical excellence. Our goals are simple:- To promote the fun, satisfaction, and competitive thrill of radio contesting- To assist our members in the development of their operating and technical skills- To win the club competition of the major amateur radio contests

Brian Horne, N1BAM
An Extra class Ham Operator board member of the CT POTA club WB1CT and POTA addict. There are so many ways to get out and enjoy the parks everywhere that there is always something to learn.

Alan Kafka, ALKAFKA
Alan Kafkas research and teaching integrates geophysics, earthquake science, applied mathematics, environmental systems, and community science for the greater good. He studies earthquakes in many regions of planet Earth and has long been obsessed with the enigma of why earthquakes occur in the Eastern US, deep within the interior of the North American plate. Dr. Kafka is also active in the global community of seismologists maintaining networks of seismographs for monitoring earthquakes and other seismic events around the world. After 42 years of teaching at Boston College and conducting research at BCs Weston Observatory (a geophysical research and science education center), he retired from his faculty position at BC at the end of 2025 to pursue his lifelong dream of being an independent scientist.

Charles Nelson, NC7RCHUCK
I have been a licensed operator since 1976. Over those years, I've taken radio with me hiking, kayaking, on the road and sitting in my shack and enjoyed many different aspects of this great hobby. There's always something new from learning how to tune a tube transmitter to how to reload the latest firmware on my mesh node. RDF/fox hunting is one aspect I've enjoyed and I hope you can as well.

Fred Hopengarten, Esq., K1VR and W. Dale Clift, Esq., NA1L
Atty. Clift is a graduate of Penn State and UConn Law. He is Corporation Counsel for the City of Bristol, CT, so he has an excellent understanding of zoning from the city's perspective. He also maintains a private practice. In his youth, he worked at ARRL HQ.

William Keicher, KC1HTT
Dr. William E. Keicher, KC1HTT, is a retired research electrical engineer. He worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory as a Member of the Technical Staff, Assistant Group Leader, Associate Group Leader, Group Leader, and Senior Member of the Technical Staff from 1975 to 2012 and CBS Laboratories as a Senior EE from 1973 to 1975. He served as a reserve officer in the US Army Signal Corps from 1969 to 1977. His research specialties include laser and millimeter wave communications, laser, microwave and millimeter wave radar systems, and infrared and visible imaging systems. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon Universitys Electrical Engineering Department BSEE (1969), MSEE (1970), Ph.D. EE (1974). Dr. Keichers amateur radio interests include HF DX chasing, VHF/UHF satellite communications, and VHF Earth-Moon-Earth communications.

Robert DeMattia, K1IW
Bob DeMattia was first licensed in 1979 as N1AMF. With one year, he had upgraded to Extra and callsign AK1J. Bob's primary involvement in ham radio hasbeen on FM repeaters. His first project was building a home brew repeater controller for the first i

Benjamin Jackson, N1WBV
Ben Jackson, N1WBV, is just another geek from Massachusetts. First licensed in 1995, he spends his days doing being a Cyber Defense Manager, generally breaking things, and being relentlessly yet constructively paranoid for a Fortune 500 company headquartered in New England. In his spare time, he enjoys being a husband and dad, messing around with computers, VoIP, analog telephones, amateur radio, and generally pressing anything with a button on it. Ben was the lead author for Asterisk Hacking from Syngress Publishing, has spoken at various cyber security conferences, and has been featured on the BBC, New York Times, and CNET. Ben also strongly dislikes writing about himself in the third person.

Bob Phinney, K5TEC
Bob retired from 38 years of teaching at a private school in Brookline, MA. He taught after-school STEM classes, radio and electronics courses, classical LATIN, math, photography, and science. In 2014 he founded New England Amateur Radio, Inc. (NE1AR), a non-profit to develop wireless educational curricula, as well as provide regular or on-call VE sessions. In 2018 he founded New England Sci-Tech, a non-profit STEM education center that teaches electronics and wireless communications with an emphasis on getting youth into the amateur radio hobby.

Marcia Forde, KW1U
Marcia Forde KW1U, Section Traffic Manager for Eastern and Western Mass and Rhode Island, having held various leadership positions in NTS over the past 45 years, including section CW net manager, Eastern Area net manager, TCC Director and Eastern Area Staff Chair.

Sebastian Delmont, KI2D
Sebastian lives in the Southern Catskills in NY. He is a full time Software Developer at a startup, part of the organizing committee for the DX Marathon, the Hudson Division representative to the ARRL Advisory Contesting Committee, an active member of the Sullivan County ARES Group, an avid contester, DXer and Parks activator. And in his spare time, he writes open-source apps for amateur radio under the umbrella of Ham2K Technologies.

Bob Phinney, K5TEC
Bob retired from 38 years of teaching at a private school in Brookline, MA. He taught after-school STEM classes, radio and electronics courses, classical LATIN, math, photography, and science. In 2014 he founded New England Amateur Radio, Inc. (NE1AR), a non-profit to develop wireless educational curricula, as well as provide regular or on-call VE sessions. In 2018 he founded New England Sci-Tech, a non-profit STEM education center that teaches electronics and wireless communications with an emphasis on getting youth into the amateur radio hobby.

James Jones, KC1YGY
I got into radio in high school when I met an Elmer through my church (N1AXS). I found it fascinating to listen to radio stations from around the world. Even though it took me many years to get my license after that. I didn't get my first license until I was in the Navy and helped with MARS. I used to be KG4UOF. In 2005, I moved to New Zealand, where I got the call ZL2USA. I was in AREC, the NZ version of ARES, and helped with many successful search-and-rescue operations. I also served as secretary of my local club for 2 years. I returned to the States in 2010 and had to put the hobby aside for a bit. In 2025, I received my general class license and writing software for ham radio operators.

Tony Brock-Fisher, K1KP
Tony was first licensed as WA1IKP in 1967. In 1976 he upgraded to Extra and changed his call sign to K1KP. Tony is retired from Philips Medical where his professional accomplishments are too numerous to mention. Tony has turned his engineering talents to Amateur radio where he is the principal designer behind the new Flex Aurora product.

Brian Bodiya, KC1WIH
Brian is a software engineer and a relatively new ham. He is interested in nearly every aspect of the hobby he's heard about so far. His initial focus has been primarily in digital modes. In addition to his own projects, he has also made minor contributions to WSJT-X Improved.

Gregory Lapin, N9GL
Gregory Lapin, PhD, PE has been a radio amateur for 56 years. He trained in Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University and stayed as a research professor studying brain tumors. The development of cell phones led to a natural transition to study if there was a relationship between RF exposure and brain cancer. He has chaired the ARRL RF Safety Committee since 1998 and represented ARRL on the FCC Technological Advisory Council since 2001. He is a Life Senior Member of IEEE and co-chair of IEEE ICES TC95-SC4, responsible for developing the C95.1 standard. He is currently the executive editor of the ARRL Handbook.

David Henry, KC1PEN
David is a member of the W1NRG Meriden Amateur Radio Club and the K2BSA Radio Club and is avid ARDF enthusiast. In addition to foxhunting, he enjoys bringing ham radio to scouts as a merit badge counselor and facilitator of JOTA activity.

Bob Meneguzzo, K1YO
Biography Bob Meneguzzo K1YO (Southwick, MA)Bob started in Amateur Radio in Pennsylvania as a Novice back in 1966. Prior to that he fiddled with old shortwave radios, fascinated by the world that could be heard through that medium. A general class license, VFOs and more frequencies followed shortly after that.Engineering school (Biomedical) came some years later and in 1980 Bob was hired by Hewlett-Packard (Medical Products Group) where he spent six years as a Field Service Engineer in the Washington DC area (primarily at Walter Reed Army Medical Center) and later as Regional Service Manager for HP covering the Northeast for 20 years. Following that, HP spun off the high-tech groups into Agilent Technologies; the Medical Group was then finally purchased by Philips Medical Systems where Bob spent the rest of his 36-year career as Field Readiness Program manager for North America until retirement in 2016. Somewhere in the interim he found time to acquire his Extra license with the current callsign K1YO.Bob served as Trustee and Tech Committee Chair for MTARA (Mt Tom Amateur Repeater Assn), maintaining their repeater equipment for several years. Hes an ARRL Technical Specialist for the WMA Section, WMA team lead for Rob Leidens RFI Investigations group, and currently serves as Tech Director for the Hampden County Radio Association (HCRA).Bob enjoys helping others with RF Interference issues, matching antenna choices to desired operating parameters, teaching classes as an Instructor for Ray Lajoies WMA Section licensing team, and general technical problem solving as the needs arise.

David Olean, K1WHS
I spent my career in radio communications, being a radio amateur since 1962. I was an officer in the US Army Signal Corps, and then worked for several antenna companies. I started my own antenna company in 1993, Directive Systems, manufacturing a line of VHF and UHF yagis, microwave dishes, and loop yagis My interest in Auroral communications was kindled while working in a sounding rocket lab at the Univ. of New Hampshire in 1967. We fired off sounding rockets into the auroral curtains to measure magnetic fields and energetic particles. I have been happily scattering amateur VHF signals off the Aurora ever since.

Mike Corey, KI1U
Mike Corey, KI1U, was appointed ARRL Rhode Island Section Manager since January 2026. Previously he served as Assistant Section Manager.

Robert DeMattia, K1IW
Bob, K1IW, is the president of NESMC and will emcee the meeting.

Max Kendall, W0MXX
Max is a rising 10th grader at Medway High School. He is the vice-president of STARS radio club at New England Sci-Tech, the president of the 4-H Science Explorers, a mentor at the Medway Library Arduino club and STEAM classes, and founder of the New England Weather Balloon Society. He earned his Extra license in 2021. He enjoys working with robotics and electronics, and has been tinkering since he was a toddler. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge with other kids and adults alike. He teaches many classes and workshops at New England Sci-Tech, an educational non-profit. He also enjoys eating sushi, reading classics, math, and climbing.

Charles Chandler, WS1L
Charles is the Section Emergency Coordinator for Western Massachusetts.

Dave Bernstein, AA6YQ
Dave AA6YQ first became interested in radio at age six, when his father gave him a galena crystal receiver kit. That interest led him to physics and electronics, a computer science degree from MIT, and a career in computer hardware and software design engineering. It wasn't until his older son participated in JOTA that Dave first set foot in an operating amateur radio station. After earning his novice ticket in 1990 while assisting a radio merit badge class, Dave was hooked by DXing, and began developing software to automate the record-keeping and paperwork, and to aid in finding and working needed DX stations. DXLab is the still-ongoing product of that effort. His other interests include digital photography, electronic voting, neuroscience, personalized education, and playing classical piano (Chopin, Rachmaninoff). His QTH is just west of Boston Massachusetts.Dave has reached top of the mixed and phone DXCC Honor Rolls, and is on the CW (339) and RTTY (338) Honor Rolls. His current DXCC Challenge total is 3036; he has 306 DXCC entities confirmed in FT8.Besides DXing awards, Dave received the ARRLs Technical Innovation Award in 2008 (for DXLab), and the ARRLs Presidents Award in 2020 (for helping to resuscitate LoTW).

Bob Phinney, K5TEC
Bob retired from 38 years of teaching at a private school in Brookline, MA. He taught after-school STEM classes, radio and electronics courses, classical LATIN, math, photography, and science. In 2014 he founded New England Amateur Radio, Inc. (NE1AR), a non-profit to develop wireless educational curricula, as well as provide regular or on-call VE sessions. In 2018 he founded New England Sci-Tech, a non-profit STEM education center that teaches electronics and wireless communications with an emphasis on getting youth into the amateur radio hobby.

Michael Walker, VA3MW
Michael Walker (VA3MW / KE2EAF) is a marketing and developer relations professional at FlexRadio Systems with deep hands-on experience in SDR technology, HF propagation, antenna systems, and digital modes. He co-hosts the Ham Radio Workbench Podcast and presents regularly at amateur radio events on the intersection of modern software, hardware platforms, and real-world operating. When he's not in the shack, he's helping operators understand how today's tools connect to the fundamentals that have always made HF work.

Paul Young, K1XM
K1XM is the amateur radio callsign of Paul Young, an elite radio contester, radio engineer, and software developer based in Hudson, Massachusetts. He has spent over 50 years in the ham radio hobby and is widely known for building major station automation and contest hardware tools.

Zachary Sherman, KC1NXK
Long before he heard of amateur radio, Zachary enjoyed playing with FRS walkie-talkies with friends. Sent home from Olin College due to Covid, he became a Technician licensee in September 2020. Zachary soon became a co-leader of the Olin Collegiate Amateur Radio Club, helping students earn their radio licenses then volunteer for public service events. Zachary graduated in 2023 and now works as a biomedical engineer. Zachary enjoys community amateur radio events at New England Sci-Tech in Natick, MA, making contacts via the ISS repeater, studying for his General license test, and working on his mobile radio installation. He is currently president of the Sci-Tech Amateur Radio Society (STARS).

Eliot Mayer, W1MJ
Semi-retired electrical engineer. First licensed as WN1MYK in 1970. Active in the Waltham ARA and a few other clubs. Enjoys HF CW, FM repeaters, Field Day, Contesting, and fox hunting. Designed a fox using a Raspberry Pi Pico and Baofeng walkie-talkie (w1mj.com/fox).

Rob Leiden, K1UI
Rob, K1UI, is Assistant New England Director and an Assistant Section Manager in EMA. His interests also include promoting MESH networking to achieve a New England-wide network. Rob has been licensed for over 60 years and has held many club and ARRL section leadership positions. His on-the-air activities have included DX'ing, traffic handling and digital communications. Rob leads a team of about 50 hams in the New England Division working to help hams with their RFI problems. He also manages a groups,io reflector that brings hams from all over the country together to promote RFI problem solving and RFI team activities.

Corey Ruth, KD3CR
Corey Ruth, KD3CR, is the past president (2020-2025) of the Queen Annes Amateur Radio Club in Centreville, MD. Hes also a member of Queen Annes County RACES and Potomac Valley Radio Club. Living in an HOA-restricted townhouse, he has a keen interest in stealth antennas, believing that every ham, regardless of location, should be able to experience the joy of working the HF bands.

Edwin Moxon, K1GGI
Researcher and exhibit developer at the Marconi/RCA Wireless Museum in Chatham MA, on Cape Cod. Commercial Radiotelegraph and Amateur Extra licensee. Trustee of Radiomarine Commemorative Association amateur station WA1WCC.

Jehan Azad, JAZAD
Jehan leads Retina (retina.fm), an open-source passive radar network that turns software-defined radios and crowdsourced nodes into a distributed sensor system, detecting aircraft, meteors, and other reflections from broadcast signals already in the air. He's a mechanical engineer who has worked in fusion energy and manufacturing, and his writing has appeared in WIRED magazine.

Barb Irby, KC1KGS and Diane Ortiz, K2DO
Barb Irby, KC1KGS is an active member of the HamXposition planning team and the District 1 Chair for Young Ladies Radio League. Diane Ortiz, K2DO is the current President of Young Ladies Radio League

John Rokicki, KC1VMZ
John Rokicki, KC1VMZ, is a relatively new HAM with a passion for APRS! Getting his licenses as a response to viewing the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, he focused his attention on EmComm and gravitated towards APRS. With APRS as a potent technology, he realized that EmComm-focused solutions could be built leveraging it. Net Central became a passion project, melding his software engineering background and growing love of APRS.

Bob Phinney, K5TEC
Bob retired from 38 years of teaching at a private school in Brookline, MA. He taught after-school STEM classes, radio and electronics courses, classical LATIN, math, photography, and science. In 2014 he founded New England Amateur Radio, Inc. (NE1AR), a non-profit to develop wireless educational curricula, as well as provide regular or on-call VE sessions. In 2018 he founded New England Sci-Tech, a non-profit STEM education center that teaches electronics and wireless communications with an emphasis on getting youth into the amateur radio hobby.

Kaushik Satheesh Kumar, KC1WNO
I am a high school amateur radio operator and one of the youngest members actively engaged in regional ham radio communities, holding a General class license. My interest in wireless communications began in middle school and was shaped early through Arduino and Raspberry Pi projects, where I first explored embedded systems and wireless experimentation. I have since developed hands-on experience in RF systems through antenna setup, station configuration, and continued amateur radio operations. I currently serve as the Youth Outreach Lead for the Patriot Radio Club (Arizona), where I lead technical outreach efforts, support club activities, and mentor new and aspiring ham operators. I am also an active member of W1OP (Rhode Island), participating in disaster recovery events, winter field operations, and competitive RF communication exercises focused on real-world emergency communications. Beyond amateur radio, I have conducted independent research in AI-based assistive technology systems and developed a generalized zero-shot machine learning model for detecting zero-day attacks in low-power wireless networks, which was presented at IEEE conferences and the Massachusetts State Science & Engineering Fair. I continue to pursue amateur radio as a platform for technical outreach, integrating AI, embedded systems, and wireless communications while mentoring and inspiring new hams across New England and Arizona communities.

Larry Banks, W1DYJ
Licensed in 1961 as novice KN1VFX, Larry became W1DYJ in 1966. After acquiring three degrees in EE from MIT, Larry was hired in 1969 by Hewlett-Packard Medical's Cardiac R&D Lab in Waltham MA (later in Andover MA) first developing a modem for Computerized Electrocardiography. He then was on the original team that developed the first successful Cardiac Ultrasound system. He moved to HP Medical Education in 1993, responsible for technical and project management training. When HP split apart, he became Agilent Technologys global program manager for their Learning Management System.

Scott Halligan, KC1UA
Scott began working for Scanner Master in April of 2023. Prior to that he was the communications supervisor for a Cape Cod police department for close to 34 years. Scott is also the founder of the Scan New England website and remains there in an active administrator capacity to this day. He has been an avid monitoring enthusiast since a lady that took care of him as a child shoved an old shortwave radio into his hands to keep him occupied. It was at the tender age of 7 when that moment occurred and he has not looked back since. He has been incredibly fortunate to combine a lifelong hobby into a career, starting as a Radioman in the US Coast Guard, installing C-Band satellite systems after his honorable discharge in 1985, and then the aforementioned police employment, starting as a dispatcher in 1988 and remaining one in addition to becoming the supervisor in 1996 up to his retirement in July of 2022. Scott enjoys a wide scope of the radio hobby to include searching for new frequencies and radio systems, DX'ing low band and tropospheric ducting band openings, listening to local public safety activity, and amateur radio (callsign KC1UA, licensed since 1990). He also enjoys traveling with his wife Linda, hiking, gardening, computing, billiards, and his sports teams to include the New England Patriots and Boston Bruins.

Ted Robinson, K1QAR
Teds wide ranging design experience started in the 9th grade with a plug in Nuvistor pre-amp. Later projects included aircraft and ocean yacht performance enhancements. Operating K1QAR from noisy, congested urban QTHs on the lower HF bands, he has optimized the magnetic loop.

Bob Glorioso, W1IS, and Bob Rose, KC1DSQ
Co-Authors Bob Glorioso, W1IS, and Bob Rose, KC1DSQ, have written three QST Cover Plaque articles since June 2021 and the 2024 Antenna Design Competition for their All Band 160m OCF in Auguet 2025. They wrote several articles for CQ including as Guest Antenna Editors. They just released the Second Edition of their book on wire antennas available at OCFmasters.com. W1IS and KC1DSQ are retired engineers who have been working for the last 7 years on antennas of all sizes and shapes, single band beams including phased dipoles and multi-band configurations, with a goal of delivering less than 3:1 SWR across a wide range of frequencies.

Tom Perera - W1TP and Mr. Mike - W1RC
Tom Perera - W1TP has been hunting for Enigma machines and history for over 40 years and his online museum: EnigmaMuseum.com shows much of his work. Michael Crestohl, W1RC has been collecting and studying covert radio equipment for many years and is well-known as the Founder and Benevolent Dictator of NEAR-Fest

Greg Algieri, WA1JXR
WA1JXR, began his Amateur Radio journey by asking his Dad for a Blue 'Gillette Razor Blade' to make his first diode receiver, which lead him to get his Amateur Radio license, higher electronics education, and an entire career with Raytheon, where he worked in radio and antenna design. Greg is active in the Amateur Radio community as a teacher for new and existing hams, restoring vintage radios, and getting on-the-air. He's been a member of NEQRP since its beginnings. Teacher for Long Island CW Club, ARRL WMA Assistant Section Manager and Technical Coordinator.

Aaron Addison, KF1G
Aaron Addison, is a long time digital mode instructor, and teacher for ham radio classes.

Katherine Campbell, KE8LQR
Katie Campbell, KE8LQR, epitomizes the very best of our next generation of radio amateurs. Katie was licensed in 2019 at ten years old in early middle school. Her predominant interests in amateur radio at the moment are CW and contesting. She’s an active member of the North Coast Contesters and the Bavarian Contest Club. KE8LQR currently serves on the working group of Youth on the Air for the Americas as their public relations manager. Katie formerly taught classes for the Long Island CW Club kids program. She’s also served on the board of the Young Ladies Radio League as their youth representative. Katie has lived and attended school in Germany on a scholarship facilitated by the US Department of State. She is looking forward to starting college in the fall.

Phil Temples, K9HI
Phil Temples, K9HI, was first licensed over fifty years ago as WN9EAY in Bloomington, Indiana. He holds an Amateur Extra class license. Phil is a QST author and an ARRL Diamond Club Life Member. He also serves ARRL Vice Director for the New England Division. When he's not focused on ham radio activities, Phil writes fiction. He has published five mystery-thriller novels, a novella, and four story anthologies in addition to over 350 online short stories and visual art. You could say that storytelling is in his blood.

Tom Kinahan, N1CPE
Tom Kinahan has been a ham for over 40 years, and has been involved with ARMY MARS for over 10 years. Tom has has previously held volunteer leadership positions in the Red Cross, as well as State RACES officer. Tom is currently employed by a medical systems company as a Product Manager of wired and wireless network infrastructure and cybersecurity products used in patient monitoring.

Eliot Mayer, W1MJ
Semi-retired electrical engineer. First licensed as WN1MYK in 1970. Active in the Waltham ARA and a few other clubs. Enjoys HF CW, FM repeaters, Field Day, Contesting, and fox hunting. Designed a fox using a Raspberry Pi Pico and Baofeng walkie-talkie (w1mj.com/fox).

Jimmy Surprenant AB1DQ, Rob Jackson N1RWJ, Mark Noe KE1IU
First licensed 24 years ago at the age of 36, Jimmy fulfilled a lifelong dream of becoming an amateur radio operator; something that should have happened earlier in life given his childhood obsession with radio and electronics. Better late than never! As a licensed ham, Jimmy enjoys melting solder, operating QRP, CW & POTA. He is a former officer and currently an active member of the Meriden (CT) Amateur Radio Club where he publishes the monthly newsletter, KeyKlix, and also coordinates the club's annual license review class.

Larry Banks, W1DYJ
Licensed in 1961 as novice KN1VFX, Larry became W1DYJ in 1966. After acquiring three degrees in EE from MIT, Larry was hired in 1969 by Hewlett-Packard Medical's Cardiac R&D Lab in Waltham MA (later in Andover MA) first developing a modem for Computerized Electrocardiography. He then was on the original team that developed the first successful Cardiac Ultrasound system. He moved to HP Medical Education in 1993, responsible for technical and project management training. When HP split apart, he became Agilent Technologys global program manager for their Learning Management System.

John Rokicki, KC1VMZ
John Rokicki, KC1VMZ, is a relatively new HAM with a passion for APRS! Getting his licenses as a response to viewing the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, he focused his attention on EmComm and gravitated towards APRS. With APRS as a potent technology, he realized that EmComm-focused solutions could be built leveraging it. Net Central became a passion project, melding his software engineering background and growing love of APRS.

Tom Kinahan, N1CPE
Tom Kinahan has been a ham for over 40 years, and has been involved with ARMY MARS for over 10 years. Tom has has previously held volunteer leadership positions in the Red Cross, as well as State RACES officer. Tom is currently employed by a medical systems company as a Product Manager of wired and wireless network infrastructure and cybersecurity products used in patient monitoring.

Brian Horne, N1BAM
An Extra class Ham Operator board member of the CT POTA club WB1CT and POTA addict. There are so many ways to get out and enjoy the parks everywhere that there is always something to learn.

Dave Hornbaker, N1DCH
David C. Hornbaker N1DCH, is the president of the Minuteman Repeater Association. He has been a member of MMRA since December 2017. He holds an Amateur Extra license and is a Volunteer Examiner with the MMRA Amateur Radio Exam Team.Davids interest in radio began when he was a pre-teen hanging around the shack of his uncle Myron Hornbaker, W0/GFU (SK), Fowler, Kansas. He got his First-Class Radiotelephone License in 1975 (now, General Radiotelephone Operator License). David was employed by a local telephone company as an installer of IMTS telephones in automobiles. Later, he went to work for Wichita, Kansas television station KAKE-TV as a master control operator. David was recruited to join Pr1me Computer, Inc. headquarters in Natick, MA, where he was a senior software engineer for eight years in its Research and Development Division. He worked on compilers and the Primos Operating System. Following Pr1me, he was employed by Pacer Software, Westborough, MA, which sold a portable AppleTalk stack. David ported the AppleTalk stack to OS/2 Lan Manager for 3-Com and Microsoft. Eventually, he was employed by the Microsoft Corporation for 23 years as an Infrastructure Senior Consultant. Today, David owns and is President of DCH Consulting Services. He is a graduate of University Massachusetts Lowell, BS, MS Information Technology .

Jack Miller
Once described as “Gomez Addams meets Wile E. Coyote,” Jack Miller is a Boston-based professional magician whose close-up and parlour magic brings smiles, laughs, and gasps to any event. In his storied travels, Jack has done command performances for: the British nobility, the British government, and an ACTUAL PIRATE!