Brainerd Area Amateur Radio Club, Inc.

Al Doree  WØRC

Al is the President of BAARC for 2009.  Al also served as BAARC President from 2000 through 2004. 

Al Doree was First licensed in 1963 as WNØGMX (novice) and upgraded to general 6 months later as WAØGMX, upgrading to advanced in 1973, then to extra in 1998 and later changed his call to WØRC. 

Al is a charter member of the 3M Amateur Radio Club since it was started in 1969 and has held the offices of Secretary, Vice President, and President a couple times. Al served in the US Navy from July 1951 to April 1954 as electronic aviation radio/radar operator during the Korean war. Later he served in the US Naval Reserves as electronic aviation technician and retired in May of 1994. 

He worked for Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing for 32 years from 1962 to June of 1994 when he retired and moved to Lake Shamineau near Motley, Minnesota.  Al, a 1958 graduate of DeVry Institute in Chicago, earned a BS degree in electrical engineering through the ICS program at 3M in 1974.

Al Doree WØRC in his radio shack.  Al is also the club's digital repeater (packet node) coordinator.  He knows electronics and enjoys using it in his ham hobby.

E-mail: doreeaj at brainerd.net (replace the at with the familiar "@" sign.)  This is called "munging" the e-mail address in the posting so that "spam harvesters" can't recognize it as an e-mail address.

Their telephone number is 218-575-2404.  The mailing address is:  3876 East Shamineau Drive, Motley, MN 56466. 

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