In 1960, at the age of thirteen, I passed the Novice Class Amateur Radio license exam and,
shortly thereafter, was issued the call sign of KN8WHB by the Federal Communications
Commission. I spent a fun year on the Novice bands from my basement shack in our Grand
Rapids, Michigan home.
In 1984, after returning from a few years of missionary work
in Costa Rica and Honduras, our family moved back to Michigan and I did some quick upgrading.
The day after we returned, I went to the FCC office in Detroit and passed the Advanced
Class exam, and the next month drove to Cleveland and passed the Amateur Extra Class exam.
This was either the last or next to last exam session given by the Detroit FCC office
before the volunteer examiner program began.
Awards
ARRL National Certificate of Merit (1978)
ARRL Emergency Service Award
ARRL Public Service Award
DXCC (Mixed, Phone, CW #6,312)
QRP DXCC
WAS
WAZ - CW #292
DXCC Totals (worked / confirmed) as of 17 July 2007
Mixed - 293 / 292
CW - 278 / 278
Phone - 187 / 170
Contest Achievement Highlights
1st Place, Delta Division, QRP, CW, 2001 ARRL 10-Meter Contest (Division record)
1st Place, Tennessee, 1999 QRPARCI Holiday Spirits Sprint
1st Place, World, 80m CW, 1984 ARRL International DX Contest
1st Place, North America, Mixed Mode, 1984 ARRL 10-Meter Contest
6th Place, World, Mixed Mode, 1984 ARRL 10-Meter Contest
1st Place, Honduras, All-Band CW, 1975 CQ World-Wide DX Contest
1st Place, Honduras, All-Band CW, 1983 CQ World-Wide WPX Contest
1st Place, Honduras, Mixed Mode 1983 ARRL 10-Meter Contest
1st Place, Honduras, 80m CW, 1983 ARRL International DX Contest
1st Place, Honduras, 80m, 1983 ARRL International DX Contest
Primary Station Equipment
(see picture)
Icom IC-706MKIIG Transceiver
Icom IC-703 QRP Transceiver
LDG Z-11 Pro QRP Auto Tuner
Diamond SX-200 SWR/Watt Meter
Saratoga EZ-PSK interface for digital modes
Icom IC-2100 2-Meter-FM Transceiver
Idiom Press Logikey K-3 Keyer
Bencher Hex Key Magnetic Paddles (Elecraft Edition)
K8RA P2jr CW Paddles
Cobra UltraLite Dipole Antenna fed with ladder line
Several homebrew QRP rigs
Current Memberships
Adventure Radio Society (#880)
Amateur Radio Emergency Service
Amateur Radio Missionary Service (ARMS)
American QRP Club
American Radio Relay League
Cedar Valley Amateur Radio Club
FISTS (#3597)
Iowa QRP Club (#162)
Michigan QRP Club (M-109)
North American QRP CW Club (#0439)
Old Old Timer's Club (#4003)
QRP ARCI (#10034)
QRP-L.org (#530)
Quarter Century Wireless Association (#19,129)
SKCC #2238
Past Memberships
Central Michigan Amateur Radio Club
Grand Rapids Amateur Radio Association
Grant County Amateur Radio Club (past president)
Iowa Army MARS
Johnson City Amateur Radio Association
Lansing Civil Defense Repeater Association
RACES
Radio Club de Honduras
Radio Club de Tegucigalpa
Roanoke Valley Amateur Radio Club
Tennessee Army MARS
WGM Amateur Radio Fellowship (founder)
Previous Call Signs
KN8WHB, K8WHB, W9NXD, NJ8X, K4EQ (since 1996)
Also operated from these countries:
Honduras (HR1DH, K8WHB/HR1, W9NXD/HR2, NJ8X/HR1, HR9/K4EQ)
Costa Rica (W9NXD/TI2)
Russia (NJ8X/UA3)
Canada (W9NXD/VE3, NJ8X/VE3, K4EQ/VE3)
Miscellaneous
Passed Amateur Extra Class exam in September 1984
Accredited ARRL Volunteer Examiner (since 1985)
K4EQ formally held by William Kargoll, Jr., Jupiter, Florida, 1963-1977
NJ8X reissued to Ainahou Contest Club in Michigan (12/27/02)
Father, Max Holloway (SK), was N8CVH
Brother, Mel Holloway, is KD8LL
Sister-in-law, Kim Holloway, is N8HOD
Uncle, Don Holloway (SK), was WB8EYM
|
I was born in Lansing, Michigan and graduated from South High School in Grand
Rapids. I hold B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. Having been raised next to and
graduating from Michigan State University, I confess my blood bleeds green and
white and I have considerable MSU and Big Ten bias when it comes to sports.
Jan and I met during high school and were married a little over a year after graduation.
We have three grown children and six grandchildren. You can visit our Holloway
family web site at www.HollowayWeb.com.
Professionally, I am an ordained minister in The Wesleyan Church and, starting with a
student pastorate in 1967 and including ministerial training, have been in the ministry ever
since. Nearly nine years of that time have been spent in missionary work,
including three years in Honduras, one year in Costa Rica, where my wife and I studied
Spanish at the
Spanish Language Institute (El Instituto de Lengua Española)
in San José, and five years in homeland administration with an interdenominational
mission agency. While pastoring for five years in Marion, Indiana, I was an adjunct professor at
Indiana Wesleyan University. While
pastoring in Roanoke, Virginia, I was the coordinator for our new denominational ministry in Guatemala.
In 1998, I shifted gears somewhat and began a wonderful four-plus-year ministry with the
Christian Medical & Dental
Associations in Bristol, Tennessee, where I served on the senior staff as Director
of Community Based Ministries. In this role I gave oversight to CMDA's area and regional
directors around the country, spoke to doctors and students on medical campuses and in
regional and national conferences, led short-term medical/dental teams to Latin America,
and was a frequent Spanish-speaking plenary speaker and workshop leader at Latin American
Christian medical conferences.
In September 2002 I returned to the pastorate and became pastor of
Living Hope Wesleyan Church
in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
|
