The
2017 Team
Co-Founders
 Don DuBon N6JRL Don was first licensed as WN6LQM in 1963. He has
been to J6, VP2, TI5N and most notably
3Y0X in 2006. A DX’er and
contester Don is a retired Marine
and enjoys aeronautical mobile when he is flying
as a private pilot.
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 Jim Storms AB8YK Jim
is a retired IT professional and is a member of
Dayton Amateur Radio Association, the Huber Height
Amateur Radio Club VE team and 2014-2016
President of Southwest Ohio DX Association (SWODXA).
Jim is a frequent member of the TI5N CQWW contest
team and supports the YXDA website.
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 Dave Kalter KB8OCP (sk) Dave Kalter KB8OCP is a long time friend
of Don DuBon N6JRL and fellow contester and DX’er.
Dave has been on the CQWW SSB contest team at TI5N
since 2008. Dave is the past vice president of the
Southwest Ohio DX Association (SWODXA) and was an
active member in DARA and Hamvention. Dave likes RTTY
and PSK and CW we have seen him maintain a rate of 275
Q’s per hour in the CQWW SSB contest. An inspiration
to all hams of all ages. Dave became a silent key on
November 18th 2013 at his home with his family at his
side.
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 Todd DuBon KD4YHY Todd DuBon KD4YHYwas licensed
when he was 11 years old at Camp Lejuene NC. He was
very active in the Onslow Amateur Radio Club (OARC)
doing net control, disaster communications, and
activated the JOTA every year for the Boy Scouts.
Todd is a Marine Corps veteran and has been on
the TI5N CQWW team many times and was one of the
founding members of the YDXA in 2008. Todd and his
wife Krissy live near Baton Rouge , La. and have two
harmonics Penelope 1 1/2, and Liam 3 1/2 |
 Keko Diez TI5KD (TI5N) First licensed as TI2KD in 1979. Soon
after, I became active in DXing,Contesting and
DXpeditioning. Today, I am still amazed and excited
that signals from my station radiated through antennas
and towers, most of which are homebrew, can span the
globe and let me communicate with other amateurs in
distant places with relatively simple systems. Even
with present day internet and cell phones, which I am
grateful for, my excitement while on the air, is
always there.
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Southern Board Members
 George Nicholson N4GRN |
 Wes Lamboley W3WL |
| George has been a team member on four DXpeditions to highly sensitive areas. George’s first DXpedition was to Peter I Antarctica where George handled fuel, food, waste, and communications as well as operated radio. After Peter I George was logistics and communications officer for Desecheo Island DXpedition and, once on the island, a Fish and Wildlife agent requested that George assume safety duties while on the island. The next project was The Orkney Islands Antarctica where once again George handled communications, logistics, and power generation and was acting safety officer. On Malpelo Island, another highly sensitive location off the coast of Colombia and a World Heritage site, George carried out the same duties as before. All of these DXpeditions were awarded DXpedition of the year. Due to health reasons George was unable to participate in the recent Amsterdam Island DXpedition which also was awarded DXpedition of the year. George handled all logistics for the project. |
Wes got into
ham radio in high school, and it lead to a career in
electronics and aerospace. He retired from
Boeing after 37 years. Wes was a team member
of 5 DXpeditions of the Year ( XR0Y, VK0IR, A52A,
FT5XO and VP8ORK) and also was a member of the
VP8THU, VP8GEO VP8ORK and D68C teams.
Wes is now very active in encouraging youth to
consider STEM via ham radio as a hobby, and
chairs the North Fulton Amateur Radio League's
"HamJam" gathering (see www.hamjam.info
for more information), where all the proceeds go for
youth education, scholarships, and activities.
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2017 Host
 Byron Swainey - TI5-WA8NJR (and Rose) |
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2017 Team
Clicking on picture brings up their QRZ page.
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Jim is a
retired IT professional and is a member of
Dayton Amateur Radio Association, the Huber
Height Amateur Radio Club VE team lead and
2014-2016 President of Southwest
Ohio DX Association (SWODXA). Jim is a frequent
member of the TI5N CQWW contest team
and supports the YXDA website. He has been
a YDXA team leader for several trips.
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 Ron Doyle N8VAR - Co-Team Lead Ron is a retired Database Guru and a
member of Dayton Amateur Radio Association and the
Huber Heights Amateur Radio Club VE team. He has
served for many years as the Committee Chair of BSA
Troop 390 in Huber Heights. During his BSA time
Ron has been a radio merit badge counselor. This
year he is on the K2BSA staff for the National
Jamboree.
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 Bryant Rascoll KG5HVO Bryant, age
13, earned his ham license in May 2015. He
enjoys contesting, DXing, CW, and antenna
building. As a Boy Scout, Bryant is an avid
camper, and was introduced to amateur radio at a Boy
Scout Merit Badge course. Bryant can also be
found on the ball field playing baseball for the
NOLA Predators, a travel baseball team out of the
Westbank of New Orleans and one of his teammates has
now joined Bryant in pursuing his ham license.
Bryant also operates his own lawn mowing
business. Bryant, a military brat, is the only
ham in his family. Bryant was the winner of the Dave
Kalter Memorial Youth DX Adventure. See him
being presented with an HF station as the winner by
clicking here.
Also Bryant was interviewed by Don Wilbanks of
Hamnation show (Copyright Twit.tv). See the
entire episode which contains his interview at 16:45
and questions at 1:07:30 by clicking here. |
 Tim Rascoll Tim is the father of Bryant and follows
his son's amateur adventures as best he can-Tim is not
licensed
himself. Bryant's hobby and success has given a
lot of excitement for the entire family. Even though Tim
is not licensed, as a Navy Pilot who flies
all over the world, he has had many experiences
in global and international radio
operation. He is now also excited to see
the team in action and get experience under
control operators. We
are encouraging Tim to get his license before the
trip.
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 Austin Harris WA8CCS Austin WA8CCS has been licensed since 2015
originally as KE8BXH. He's involved with
scouting and currently is the Senior Patrol Leader of
his troop. He enjoys mentoring leadership skills
through the National Youth Leadership Training
Program. He loves the outdoors, especially
camping and hiking. Currently is a member of the
W8PR Contesting Group and has been around amateur
radio his entire life. Currently he holds his
grandfather's former callsign of WA8CCS.
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 Chris Harris N8OXC Chris is been a member of DARA and MWA. He
has served several times as a volunteer for
Hamvention. He has enjoyed contesting for years and
has been on one DXpedition. He enjoys the building
aspects of the hobby. Originally licensed when Hamvention did
testing at Meadowdale high school in the late
80's /early 90's. He also serves as an Venturing
crew leader and assistant Scoutmaster for
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 Chris Brault KD8YVJ Chris is a 14 year old general class operator. In 2016 he was the recipient of the 2015 ARRL Hiram Piercy Maxim Memorial Award. As a member of the West Chester Ohio club he has operated several times at the old Voice of America site and was part of the William Howard Taft Historic site activation. At Boy Scout summer camp he has demonstrated satellite communications and ham radio. Other activities include support for marathons and races. |
 Jocelyn Brault KD8VRX |
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The 2017 trip to Costa Rica Aug 3-8 is now complete!We visited the contest
site of Byron
Swainey TI5/WA8NJR in San Ramon, Alajuela Costa
Rica. The team consisted of 3 kids, 3 parents
and 2 leaders. Conditions were bad as
everyone knows. However at this site high in the
mountains weather prevented operations for almost one
entire day. Lightening and radios do not
mix! The kids decided among themselves to skip
their tourism day and operate. This was the best
day of operations and 20M held until late in the
night. Total Qs were over 3,100
even with the bad conditions. Further statistics
are coming soon. Thanks to all who made
contact with one or more of the kids. The adults
were almost completely shut out, Ron and Jim were, as
the kids kept on the radios which is our goal. Remember to QSL to each
ones home call per QRZ. Most will load to LOTW,
Clublog, QRZ, etc and is their responsibility.
Not all will set them up.
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