Club Officers
President
KI5UTQ
Stephen Shahan
Steven has been a Ham since April of 2022. He passed his Technician and General license tests in one attempt and earned his Amateur Extra license just two weeks later in May. Steven is a member of the Mississippi National Guard since 2014 and brings significant leadership and experience to his position there. Steven enjoys spending time with his family and friends. He was recently married to his beautiful wife. He enjoyus tower climbing and rigging and is very interested in Skywarn and HF modes.
Vice President & VE Liasion
WA4CB
Doug Kave
Doug was born and raised in Maryland and moved to northwest MS in 1997 with his new bride. His background is mechanical engineering and has 9 patents issued to him with his work in the biomedical industry. He has many hobbies including woodworking, blacksmithing, and of course amateur radio. He has two YouTube channels, one that documents his homestead living (His Way Homestead) and the other to highlight blacksmithing and amateur radio (CommanderBacon64) He earned his technician license January 2023 and Amateur Extra April 2023. He really enjoys hunting POTA and is working on being able to activate parks soon along with learning CW.
Secretary
KI5TKL
Don Murphy
Don worked for FedEx which moved him and his wife to Southaven, MS from Pittsburgh, PA in 2021. He got his Tech license and joined OBARC in January 2022 and received his General license a year later. His interest in Ham radio was kindled by a friend of his in Pittsburgh, W3BMW (now a Silent Key). Don served 16 years in the US Army and then worked 26 years in IT for Supply Chain companies. He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi and a master’s in systems management from the University of Southern California.
Treasurer
KF5OIM
Richard Shaw
Richard Shaw was born and raised in the Memphis / Bartlett area but has called Southaven home for more than 18 years now along with his YL Melissa KK5MEL, two sons and one daughter. Richard developed the love for computer technology from his father, also a ham, NF4H (SK) and became interested in emergency preparedness and Amateur Radio several years ago. He obtained his General License in 2012 and upgraded to Extra in 2018. An advocate of Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS), Richard is not only and advocate but an avid user of Fedora Linux as his primary operating system for both work and for fun. Richard has been a Fedora Packager for over 10 years, maintaining most of the major Ham Radio packages including Fldigi and all its sub-packages, WSJTX, FreeDV, QSSTV and theAX.25 stack used in many of the amateur radio TNC packages today. Richard is also one of the developers for FreeDV/Codec2, mainly rewriting the build system from scratch and packaging it for Windows. He is also an avid Solar enthusiast building both a Solar capability for Ham Radio but also for his entire home.
Webmaster
KD5BS
Robert Stroud
Retired from ATT, Bobby is a native of Grenada, MS but has lived in Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota Tennessee and in Olive Branch, MS. Bobby has an MBA in Information Systems with undergraduate degrees in both Finance and Accounting. His professional working career was spent in Systems, Engineering, Software Development and IT Management related disciplines serving as Vice President of several large corporations and Chief Information Office in an Atlanta company and has 2 technology patents in his name. He has been in Olive Branch for 20 years. Bobby got into Amateur Radio license in 2019 by getting his Technician License in April, his General in December of that same year and his Extra in January of the following year. His interests are in linking repeaters and digital modes especially as it relates to bridging digital to analog or other digital modes. He also enjoys providing services to Ham operators and hosts several email Gateways and Wires-X Rooms.