Elect Tom Schaefer NY4I as ARRL Southeastern Division Director
- Holder of DXCC on 9 bands (160m-10m) with 305 entities confirmed, 8B WAS, 5B WAC, VUCC (200) on 6m and DXCC Challenge with 1631 band-modes.
- Life member of the ARRL, AMSAT and QRZ.
- Member of the St. Petersburg Amateur Radio Club; Upper Pinellas Amateur Radio Club; Clearwater Amateur Radio Society; Utah Amateur Radio Club and the Florida Contest Group.
- Proven leader in multiple clubs in the Tampa Bay area including president of the St. Petersburg Amateur Radio Club (SPARC) and founder, past-president and secretary of the Upper Pinellas Amateur Radio Club (UPARC).
- Pragmatic leader–able to lead when needed but also collaborate with others to accomplish what needs to be done. I have worked on many boards and to be effective, one has to build consensus to guide the discussions to issues that are near and dear to my fellow members.
- Works with a local scout troop in Lutz, Florida at the annual Jamboree-on-the-Air (JOTA) event. This is a great experience introducing scouts to ham radio, getting them on the air to make HF contacts and helping them build simple antennas to make contacts.
- Active in Parks-on-the-Air (POTA) both activating the occasional park in Florida or Georgia as well as hunting POTA activators.
- Strong financial supporter of the ARRL including the Diamond Club, the ARRL Maxim Society and the Teachers Institute.
- Member of the ARRL A-1 Operator Club.
- Professional software developer specializing in web infrastructure architecture, in application development and web security. I have a detailed understanding of how infrastructure works from an operational standpoint (backups, data integrity, system resilience) as well as software development in more languages than I can count for both systems programming and application programming.
- Actively develops the TR4W Contest Logger as well as other open-source ham radio software (always free to all).
- Owner of a software consulting company dealing with contracts, service to clients, budgets, payroll and all aspects of running a business.
- Proud husband to Beth; a father of two grown children and our beloved pets, Murphy–a very stubborn goldendoodle and Ruth the cat.
- Loves technology but also the people in ham radio. Most of my friends are hams and I thoroughly enjoy the people I have met through this wonderful hobby.
- Skilled presenter (thanks to Toastmasters) on a wide range of topics of interest to ham radio clubs
I hope in this list you find a shared interest and we can talk about that aspect of ham radio as I never get tired of talking about the great things we can do in this passion we call amateur radio