The Northern California DX Foundation Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Ed Muns, W0YK, as an Advisor to the NCDXF Board of Directors. 

Ed's primary duty, along with Doug Bender, WW6D, will be working with the NCDXF website: http://www.ncdxf.org

Ed became interested in ham radio in high school, working 40 meter CW into Asia in the early morning hours before school.  During college, his license expired and he rejoined DXing ten years later in the early part of his 32-year career at Hewlett-Packard.  Ed's interest in DXing quickly morphed into contesting where a lot of DX participates.  All of his ham radio time today is spent contesting, chasing DX and joining DXpeditions occasionally.  Favoring CW, Ed can sometimes be found on SSB as well.

Thanks to his contest club's (NCCC) campaign to win the club competition gavel in the 2004 ARRL RTTY Round-Up, Ed got started in that mode.  He holds the SOHP world record in the contest, operating with his P49X callsign, having broken the world record in 2006, 2007 and 2009.  In CQ WPX RTTY, Ed also holds the SOHP world record, having broken it in 2007, 2008 and 2009.  In 2008, he operated the CQWW RTTY contest, winning SOHP.

Ed was on the YK0A team in 1994 and has operated as 6Y0A and 6Y4A as well as holding the 7J1ACJ call sign.  From Aruba, where he holds a permanent visitor license as P49X, he has operated nearly a dozen times, primarily CW and RTTY contests.  He has operated from the HC8N mega-station in a M2 operation in the CQWW RTTY, winning the world.  He recently joined the Radio Expeditions team, of VP6DX fame, on the management team with specific focus on funding.

Ed has taught the RTTY curriculum at Contest University at Dayton in 2008 and 2009 as well as at Contest Academy at Visalia in 2009.  He is the contest manager and log checker for the NCJ NA RTTY Sprint and both CQ RTTY contests: CQWW and CQ WPX.  He serves on the CQ Contest Advisory Board.  For the NCCC, Ed manages the NCCC, CQP and NCCC Sprint web sites as well as the club's various email reflectors.  He has published several articles in the NCJ.

We think Ed will have a lot of insight for what will be needed to keep the NCDXF website a dynamic and useful website for DXers.

The NCDXF Board of Directors wants to thank the many individuals who have contributed support to NCDXF.   We realize that these financial times have put a strain on many of us, but think about the thrill of working a "new one" or band counter and its impact on your country totals - priceless, right?  If you are currently not a member, please consider contributing to support future DXpeditions.

Since May 2008, NCDXF has provided financial help to the following DXpeditions:

4W6R Timor Lorosa'e
VK9XWW Christmas Island
VK9CJW Cocos-Keeling
OJ0B Market Reef
VK9DWX Willis Island
A5100A Bhutan
E44M Palestine (Bethlehem)
FW5RE Wallis & Fortuna
K5D Desecheo Island
VK9LA Lord Howe Island
S04R Western Sahara

Hopefully you worked one or more of these DXpeditions!

Contributions can now easily be made on-line using our SSL secured web
server:  https://www.ncdxf.org/donate

Glenn Johnson, W0GJ
Vice President, NCDXF

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