W9DYV Amateur Radio Symposiums

Sally and Rob Rains are well known around the St. Louis sports scene and were inducted into the St. Louis Media Hall of Fame in 2018. Together they wrote “The Mighty MOX” on the 75th anniversary of KMOX, a midwestern radio giant.

Barry Buelow is a retired engineer from Collins Aerospace, who with his associates brings a combined 100+ years of experience in HF radios and avionics systems to solving problems for ham radio operators.

Joe Eisenberg got his start in ham radio with mentoring from Leo Meyerson, founder of WRL, and is currently the Kit Building Editor for CQ Magazine.

Robert Nickels is a retired technologist and strategic marketing director for Honeywell. He enjoys combining vintage and modern technologies and is the coordinator for this year’s W9DYV Technical Symposium.

David Cripe is an engineer at Collins Aerospace with an extensive background in the electronics industry and holds leadership positions with the QRPARCI and 4State QRP Group in addition to being the designer of many kits and ham radio projects.

John Townsend is a retired mechanical engineer who spent most of his career at GM, primarily in Powertrain development. A relative latecomer to the radio hobby, he was first licensed in 2009 and is moving backwards in time with Boatanchor, especially Central Electronics.

Ron Rausch is retired from GE and is a CW operator.  From his first 6L6 rig built from parts scavenged from junk TV sets, he's never stopped building his own receivers, transmitters, amplifiers, and more over his 60 years ham radio.

The 2024 W9DYV Technical Symposium is sponsored by Dr. Bob Heil K9EID.