Skip Arey N2EI
Skip Arey, N2EI, began his radio monitoring career in the fourth grade by connecting a fifty foot longwire to a five tube "superhet" AM radio. His lifelong love of radio, coupled with his ability to spin a yarn and teach people a thing or two, led to his becoming a radio hobby journalist.
He is the author of the book Radio Monitoring - The How To Guide. He has been a Contributing Editor for Monitoring Times Magazine since 1989, writing the Beginner's Corner & Amateur Radio columns. His articles on the radio hobby have appeared in American Scannergram, DX News, The Journal of the North American Shortwave Association, QRP Quarterly and North East Scanning News. Reprints of some of his articles have become standard tools for teaching people about the radio hobby. He has also written about radio and electronics topics for Make Magazine.
He is a Life Member of The American Radio Relay League. He holds an Extra Class Amateur Radio License and a commercial General Radio Operators License. He has lead lectures and workshops for radio enthusiasts throughout the United States, most recently HOPE #6 in New York City. He has served on the Executive Board of the Association of North American Radio Clubs (ANARC).
Skip has shown up on the other side of many monitor's receivers, at various times, as an officer in the United States Army (including service during Operation Desert Storm), as a member of the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES), the Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES), and as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT).
When he is not playing radio or writing about playing radio, Skip enjoys bicycling, kayaking, geocaching, playing acoustic finger style guitar, and reading science fiction.
Skip's Articles: Waking
the Dead, Unruding the Rude, Are
We Having Fun Yet?, The
MFJ-1788 Super High Q-Loop Antenna,
Famous Radio Amateurs
Skip's Obsessions: Skip's Love of Radio is More Than Skin Deep , Skip's Radio Shack
Skip's Personal Web Site: http://www.tjarey.com