Biography:
Max McCoy KCŘMAX is a recent contributor to QST, the monthly publication of the Amateur Radio Relay League.
He holds a General Class license and has been a member of the Four State QRP Group—and an attendee at most Ozarkcons—for the past ten years. He is an avid kit builder, a tinkerer with vintage tube guitar amplifiers, and a dabbler with assorted microcontrollers and Raspberry Pi.
A native Kansan, he lives in Emporia, where he’s an associate professor of journalism and the director of the Tallgrass Writing Workshop at Emporia State University.
In June 2013, he began a personal exploration—mostly by kayak—of the Arkansas River, from the headwaters to the plains, and he took amateur radio along for the journey. He wrote about the river adventure in three issues of QST, and was painfully honest about being cold and wet.
He has absolutely no qualifications to talk about the technical aspects of amateur radio, and it should also be noted that he’s been trying to learn code since before the turn of this century.
Max has also written more than twenty novels, including four original Indiana Jones adventures for Lucasfilm, including one which featured radio. His most recent novel is "Of Grave Concern", the first book in a paranormal mystery series set in 1877 at Dodge City. Radio does not make an appearance.