Jarvis Island Operators
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Ned Stearns, AA7A
Ned was first licensed in August 1963 at age 12 as WN8JWY. Ned currently lives in Phoenix, AZ and is active on all amateur bands up to 23 cm.
He is active in DXing, contesting and VHF/UHF weak signal work. He has been on 30 DXpeditions on all continents including four to Top Ten Needed DX entities (Kingman Reef 2000, South Sandwich 2016, South Georgia 2016 and Baker Island in 2018). He was also the first ever to accomplish DXCC on 11 amateur bands.
He retired from General Dynamics where he was a Systems Engineer for 41 years. He is currently busy building several remote stations in AZ to expand his operating capability. He is also heavily involved in the development of remote systems for Island DXpeditions on the Radio In a Box (RIB) project.
He is a four-time past President of Central Arizona DX Association, a Director for the Northern California DX Foundation and has been the ARRL Southwestern Division Vice Director on and off since 2005. He was voted into the CQ Magazine DX Hall of Fame in 2020.