I would like to announce our Guest Speaker for the August 6th, 2025, Zoom only club meeting will be Tom Harrell, N4XP. Tom will be presenting on the 2007 DXpedtiiton to Scarborough Reef, one of the rarest DX Entities in the world!
Below is Tom’s impressive biography.
Tom, born and raised in Norfolk, VA, was first licensed at age 15 as KN4TSJ. As he progressed through the amateur ranks he was active in all the usual ham activities such as AREC, traffic, etc.. At the same time he worked DX when he could with limited antennas and equipment. By the mid-60s he found more satisfaction in DXing and eventually put most of his time and effort into DX.
Tom pursued DX all during his early years and by the early 70s had obtained his General and Advanced level license thus giving him more privileges and at the same time increasing his country totals to over 200 worked. By now he was also gainfully employed and had a family.
In 1981, with a lifelong dream of living in Alaska, he was selected for a position in Alaska and the family moved North to the interior of Alaska and AL7EL was born! For two years he operated as AL7EL and experienced DX from the other side which provided experience only gained from “being DX”. At the conclusion of his tour, he returned to the lower 48 and continued his career in Maryland, Georgia and New York. In 1996 he retired and established his residence in Northeast Georgia and remains there to this day. When he retired he established a consulting firm providing services to the US Army worldwide.
Tom has visited 46 countries with radio operations from 24 of those. He currently holds ARRL DXCC Honor Roll No. 1 with a country count of 367/340; 9-band DXCC; 5-band Worked all Zones and numerous other DXCC achievements. In 2009 Tom was inducted into the CQ DX Hall of Fame.
Among the many countries visited and/or operated from, Tom has participated in DXpeditions to rare places such as Scarborough Reef, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Wake Island, East Malaysia and North Cook Island. Most recently operations were from Sao Tome and Principe, Mozambique and Svalbard. Most all operations were either as Team Leader/Operator and also usually as a member of management teams for virtually all locations traveled to..
Tom as with most DXpepedtions always has one thing on their mind….
”Where are we going next”!
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We look forward to “seeing” many of you there on Wednesday at 1900 local time.
