Maury, W3EF

Name: Maury Peiperl Call: W3EF Nationality: American 3B9 Responsibilities: Team Member

DXpedition Experience:
D68C (Comoros, 2001)
5B4/G0UHK (Cyprus, 2000)

Significant Operations:
Major contest operations on and off since 1977 as team member at D68C, G0KPW, GW8GT, G4BUO, K1AD, K1VR, KY1H, W1AF, W3IN

Other Calls:
G0UHK, GB7DXH
ex NZ1W, WA3ZTW, WN3ZTW

Club Memberships:
ARRL, RSGB, FOC, CDXC, Harvard Wireless Club, Potomac Valley Radio Club

Home Page:
http://www.ldltd.com/whomaury.htm

About Maury:
An American, Prof Maury Peiperl lived in the UK from 1986 to 1987 and from 1992 to 2001 and now divides his time between the UK and the USA, with frequent trips to teach or conduct research (including scouting DX!) in other countries.

Maury has been active in radio since high school, and has put a number of schools and universities on the air. He obtained a license for the Northwood HS Amateur Radio Club in 1977 in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he recently returned to live after 25 years away. He was treasurer and principal contest operator of the Brown University Amateur Radio Club, K1AD (Providence, Rhode Island) in 1978-79 and station manager of the Harvard Wireless Club, W1AF (Cambridge, Massachusetts) from 1991 to 1992, where he also ran Volunteer Examiner sessions and was a member of the local civil defense group.

Maury is an avid CW contester and has been successful both as a single op and in multi-operator entries from the East Coast of the USA and the UK, earning 7 top-ten finishes in CQWW CW and 6 in ARRL DX CW since 1992, including three first-place plaques. He was contest co-ordinator for the FSDXA D68C expedition in 2001 that set a new record in the Africa Multi-Two category in the ARRL DX CW contest.

More recently Maury has been building an SO2R contest station in Maryland (halfway between K3ZO and W3LPL!). In the early stages, with a tribander and wires, he managed to place number 2 in the USA in ARRL DX CW in 2003. (He avoids certain defeat by his famous neighbors by competing in the low-power category!)

Maury is a professor at the London Business School and the University of Maryland and a director of Learning Designs Limited, a management training and consultancy company. His wife, Dr Jennifer Georgia, a speechwriter and designer, is the daughter of KD3P (SK) and sister of N1DZT. It goes without saying that their son Evan (9) and daughter Julia (7) definitely carry the radio gene!