[Alexandria Radio Club Reflector] ARC Tonight's Meeting Featured Speaker, John Portune, W6NBC

[Don (KI4D)]

As a prelude to our monthly club meeting tonight, this note is to provide
background on our featured speaker, John Portune, W6NBC.  As you will note
tonight, John is a "natural" when it comes to technical presentations with a
total mastery of his subject matter.  

John has been a ham since 1965.  His  professional career was in the
technical side of broadcast television, principally for KNBC channel 4 Los
Angeles, Ampex Corporation, Redwood City CA, Sony Electronics, San Jose, CA
as a technical instructor/writer.  He retired in 2002.   With call signs
WB6ZCT, G5AJH (while living 7 years in the UK), AA6NG, and M0GCK (still has
a British call sign), and now W6NBC, John has been active on all bands 160
Meters to 2.4 GHz and will be on 470 KHz. His current interests are
assisting new licensees, local 2M mobile, and 40M Mobile as a part of RVing,
which he does a lot of. He does rag chewing from his home station,
preferring regular nets and manages a remote HF/VHF base station on
Vandenberg AFB.  John is also  active in digital photography, Web Site
design, cribbage, pipe organs, Elks, and steam railroading, and  LOVEs
sushi.

John is married to KF6OEB, has three married children, and has 12
grandchildren.

John has been a regular lecturer at local radio clubs in his area, and has
become a guest lecturer to many clubs across the country in recent years.
He has also been a frequent writer for QST and other ham publications.

His publications may be viewed on his website at
https://w6nbc.com/indexpublished.html.

73

Don, KI4D