Tree's Home Page

Welcome to my home page.

This is the official home page for Larry "Tree" Tyree - N6TR.

I grew up in the San Fernando Valley and moved to Oregon in 1984. I currently live in Boring, Oregon, on 14 acres with my wife Nancy and daughters three: Theresa (age 8), Rebecca (age 7) and Sarah (age 4). We also have three horses (Shiller, P.C. and Candy the pony), two cats (Eclipse and Happy Cat), a new puppy Silky, along with three un-named deer, and a raccoon who helps Happy Cat eat the cat food in the barn.

I have worked in the electronics industry since 1974 and am very active in Amateur Radio. My amateur radio callsign is N6TR, which I have held since 1976. Before that, I was licensed as WB6ZVC. I am also active as K7RAT, the callsign of the Boring Amateur Radio Club. I was also active in Europe during my 14 month stay there from May 1990 until June 1991. Along with making about 20,000 QSOs from 4U1ITU, I drove down to EA9IE for the 1990 CQ WW CW contest. More recently, I have traveled down to Costa Rica and operated from TI4CF's fine station in several contests (1991 CQ WW CW, 1993 CQ WW CW and 1996 ARRL DX CW). QSLs for these operations are still available in case you didn't get one via the bureau.

I am mostly found listening to noise on 160 or 6 meters and working the occasional contest. My favorites are the NCJ Sprint, ARRL Sweepstakes and most any 160 meter contest. I spend a lot of my ham radio time in front of the computer processing e-mail, updating my logging software or involved in log checking for both the ARRL and CQ.

Here are some links I may have sent you here to find:

Amateur Radio Related

Non-Amateur Radio Related

Here are some pictures you might find interesting to look at:

Here are some home pages of places I have worked:

The ITC Network Section

Back in the 1970's there was a group of engineers who at one time worked with or for Instrumentation Technology Corporation (now Instrumentation Technology Systems). This company was a custom systems house that specialized in high technology, quick turnaround, solutions back before the world knew what a microprocessor was. An example of the culture is the year 38 out of 45 people in the company signed up for a bowling league!

Another interesting statistic is that EVERY job I have ever had in Southern California was a direct result of a relationship I had developed at ITC. These were the days when head hunters would call you up every week and most people changed jobs every couple of years. It is nice that with all the changes, the people stayed in touch. This list tries to recapture some of that.

Thanks to the new search engines, I have been able to dig up some of the people who I enjoyed working with, but have lost track of. This list is the fruit of my efforts and hopefully will continue to grow. If you know of someone who should be on this list and isn't, please E-mail me.

If there is anyone you know of who should be on this list and isn't, please drop me a note.

Comments, hate mail, or whatever to tree@contesting.com.