Amateur License Class: Extra. NR5Q

 

Previous calls: W5HTX, KA5QJO, N5GIY

 

Marital Status: Married Mary Frances Maestri, December 15, 1947

 

Children: Michael, Patrick, Sandy

 

Grandchildren: Five.  Great Grandchildren: One

 

Time at present address: 62 years

 

Hobbies other than amateur radio:  Photography, woodworking, collecting antiques

     

Military service: 3 years with the 440th TCC, 9th Air Force

 

Military duties: Radio Op and Radio Mechanic—Mostly keeping radios operating

 

Favorite movies: The Godfather, Lonesome Dove, Patton, The Longest Day, True Grit (first edition)

 

Most admired people: Carl Sagan, The Dalai Lama, Col. Frank Krebs, William Henry Fox-Talbot, Sir Isaac Newton, Mark Twain

 

Last book read: I am re-reading Sagan’s The Demon Haunted World

 

Most admired photographer: Ansel Adams

 

If you could own any automobile ever made, what would you be driving?  A 1932 Packard Convertible

 

Most beautiful airplane: The Stagger-Wing Beech, P-51 Mustang, and Spitfire

 

Best radios: The National HRO-5TA1 and the Hammarlund Super Pro

 

Favorite music: Chicago and KC Style Jazz

 

Favorite band today: The Eagles

    

Favorite bands of yesterday: Count Basie, Benny Goodman sextet, and Eddie Condon

    

Favorite vocalists of all time:  Billy Holiday and Joe Williams

 

Favorite vacation spot on earth: The South Window of Monument Valley, Utah.

 

Favorite place on earth: Home

 

Favorite room in your house: I love the entire house, but am probably most content in my messy backyard workshop. I am not completely happy unless I have some sort of a construction project underway.

 

Describe your self in one word: Curious