Don Dickey

Hello! I’m Don, WV1W, author of Successful POTA, The POTA Antenna Book, and The POTA Operator Guide. I’ve been a ham since 1975, first as WN1VDD and then as WA1VDD. In my first career, I was a mechanical design engineer and worked on “macro” projects including large printing presses for Harris Corp and later “micro” projects including a pager watch for Timex when I was awarded a patent for the antenna. Later, I followed my passion for baking and cooking and became the culinary professor for a state community college. I taught exclusively low-income inner city kids professional skills so they could get jobs in the culinary field. I currently live in CT and am married to N1GDW. We have one daughter who is a successful fashion designer in NYC. For more information please visit WV1W dot US