K6DAJ David A. Jaffe is the control operator of the amateur radio station K6DAJ, and was first licensed by the FCC in 1967 as WN2BHJ at age 12, then as WA2BHJ until recently. From 1967-1970, he was active from New Jersey on the short wave (HF) bands in a variety of areas, including DXing, morse code (CW), single side-band radio-telephone (SSB), contests, and 3rd party traffic handling. He is currently active in Berkeley, California on all HF bands, plus MHF (160 meters), VHF (6 and 2 meters), and UHF (70 cm.) Modes include morse code, SSB, AM, FM, slow scan TV (SSTV) PSK31 and radio teletype (RTTY.) Interests cover pretty much the whole range of amateur radio activities, but DXing and contesting are high on the list. He is also enjoys mobile CW.

Jaffe's interest in amateur radio is evident in several of his musical compositions, including Silicon Valley Breakdown, where a morse code "CQ DE WA2BHJ" (which means "calling anyone, from WA2BHJ") can be heard about 2/3 of the way through the piece. Another example of the use of morse code is in the last movement of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, where the names of all of the Wonders are intoned in morse code.

Below is a slow scan TV picture copied from the MIR Space Station on February 21, 1999 on 145.985 Mhz. (Not sure quite what we're looking at here... the first looks like a view out of the window. You can see stars and such. The white portion is probably an overexposed reflection. The second one could be the earth or moon?)

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