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Chip Margelli, K7JA

Chip Margelli, K7JA, has been licensed since 1963, and an Extra Class licensee since 1968. Chip and his wife Janet, KL7MF live in Garden Grove, California. Chip is the Director of Advertising Sales and Marketing for CQ Communications, Inc., and is a Life Member of  ARRL, AMSAT, and Quarter Century Wireless Association.

For over forty-five years, Chip has been active in DXing and, especially, international radiosport competition. Among his accomplishments are thirteen First-Place finishes nationally in the ARRL November Sweepstakes, and a number of world-high or national wins in the CQ World-Wide DX Contest, ARRL DX Contest, and CQ WPX Contest.

Chip's DXpedition activities include operations from St. Lucia, Dominica, Antigua, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Saipan, Micronesia, Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Martinique, and Barbados. In 1984, Chip and Janet were invited by the Chinese Radio Sport Association to travel to Beijing for operation from BY1PK and help train the new Chinese operators during the early phases of the rebirth of Amateur Radio in China.

In 1989, Chip was honored by being selected to be the American representative in the first-ever Finnish-Soviet-American DXpedition to Malyj-Vysotskij Island as 4J1FS. The following year, Chip and his teammate Mike Wetzel, W9RE, won a Silver Medal at the World Radiosport Team Championship held in conjunction with the Goodwill Games in Seattle, an elite competition featuring twenty-three teams from fifteen countries around the world.

And in the Fall of 1991, Chip was a member of the Instructor/Operator team in the IARU Albania Project, led by Martti Laine, OH2BH, which brought about the rebirth of Amateur Radio in Albania after many decades of radio silence. The ZA1A Team's efforts stand as an example of the considerable goodwill that Amateur Radio's ambassadors can provide to the peoples of the world.

In 1994, Chip and Janet accepted commissions by two magazines to visit the Havana area to document the participation by members of the Federación de Radioaficionados de Cuba in the ARRL June VHF QSO Party, which included operation as COØFRC, CO2/K7JA, and CO2/WA7WMB. Theirs was the first group of American radio amateurs to be so honored. Feature articles by Chip and Janet appeared in The QCWA Journal and QST in late 1994. In 2003, Chip and Janet and four other members of the Piña Colada Contest Club (KP2AA) joined forces with the FRC in the first-ever joint Cuba-U.S. Field Day operation as COØUS. This operation marks the first occasion where a Treasury Department Specific License was granted for a public Amateur Radio demonstration involving U.S. Amateurs.

In May of 2005, Chip and partner Ken Miller, K6CTW, made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on NBC, competing with (and defeating) the U.S. champion cell-phone text messenger in a message-completion speed contest.

Articles by Chip have been published in i>CQ, CQ VHF, Popular Communications,  and CQ magazines, and in several books. Outside of Amateur Radio, Chip enjoys photography, astronomy, and is a marathon runner.

In May of 2008, Chip was inducted into CQ Magazine’s b>Amateur Radio Hall of Fame.

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EMCOMMWEST 2011 Banquet Menu, Saturday Evening, May 7, 2011

Caesar Salad with Herb Croutons & Shredded Parmesan Cheese Served with a Traditional Caesar Dressing

Choice of

• Char-Broiled Rib Eye Steak with a Hunter Sauce Served with Stuffed Baked Potato or
• Grilled Boneless Breast of Chicken with a Shallot Chardonnay Sauce Served with Parsley Potatoes or
• Grilled Filet of Salmon with a Basil Butter Sauce Served with Saffron Rice

Chocolate Raspberry Marquise. 
Rich Layers of Chocolate Cake, Raspberry Marmalade & Chocolate Marquise.

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