Shawn Axelrod to join NRC BoD

[Paul Swearingen]

Some time ago, John Bowker announced his resignation from the Board of Directors of the National Radio Club. His resignation is effective January 1, 2010. It is with a touch of sadness that we bid John a farewell and thank him for his many contributions to the DX Audio Service and the National Radio Club.

The Board has chosen a successor for John to serve on the Board with us. From the Great frozen (at least this time of year) North the Board has unanimously chosen Shawn Axelrod to join us in directing the club and moving us forward.

A bit of history on Shawn comes from his bio at www.nrcdxas.org. Shawn is the editor for the “DX Tool Box Column.” Shawn was born in 1953 and has lived in Winnipeg MB all of his life. He has been married to his wife Helen since 1973. They have two grown children and a grand-daughter. Shawn is retired after 36 years with Manitoba Hydro.

On the DX side of life Shawn started in February of 1971. There was a high school Ham radio club VE4GY that he became associated with. He never did get his Ham radio license; however, he was bitten by the DX bug and has never recovered. When he first started in DX’ing he was a Ham band listener and has a QSL collection from over 330 ARRL Countries. Over his DX career Shawn has listened to all forms of radio from Longwave to Mediumwave to Shortwave to VHF and UHF. At the present time his DX’ing revolves around BCB, FM, as well as some Longwave and Tropical band DX’ing.

In addition to the DX Tool Box, he has in the past edited columns for CIDX and IRCA as well as having articles published in ODXA, NRC and Popular Communications. NRC published Shawn’s DX’Pedition Handbook in 1994. Shawn has been our resident Canadian editor for the NRC’s AM Radio Log as long as I have been the editor.
Shawn received a unanimous vote from the Board of Directors. We also want to thank the other members of the club who volunteered for this position.

You can contact Shawn via mail at: 30 Becontree Bay, Winnipeg MB R2N 2X9 Canada or email him at:amandx@mts.net.

Please joins us in welcoming Shawn to the Board.

73 - Wayne Heinen, Chairman of the Board of Directors, National Radio Club Inc.