Home page of Jeffrey S. Grudin, DVM
I
was born in the Bronx. NY, but grew up in New Jersey. My family and
I moved to Southern California in 1967. I attended UCLA as an undergraduate,
then UC Davis for a year in a PhD program in zoology. I graduated in 1980
from the University of California at Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.
I have spent the last 20 years working as a veterinarian. I now own
and operate a small animal practice in Santa Cruz, CA. My hobbies are sailing,
playing music, and Amateur Radio.
My eldest daughter, Marissa, is 19. She is attending a private University in Northern California. She likes hiking, camping and reading. Here is a picture of her and I on a hike that we did in Big Basin State Park. We were on our way to do the 1999 QRP to the Field Ham Radio contest. You can see the whole story by following the link below to QRP Adventures.
My younger daughter, Rachael, is 16
years old. She is in the 11th grade. She and her mother play taiko drums
with Watsonville
Taiko, a group of 40 performers. She has done many performances
in the Northern California area with the group. She also plays the flute.
We are having fun working on some classical duets together. 
She is also an amateur radio operator, KF6KLI.
We live in Soquel, CA. Our home is in a rural area of the county on the side of a 600 foot ridge. I had always wanted to be able to live in the country and still be able to make a living. Santa Cruz has allowed me to do this. The weather is very nice here, with an average temperature around 67 degrees.
Veterinary Medicine
For
the past 16 years I have owned and operated the Ocean
Animal Clinic and The Cat Clinic of Santa Cruz. Located on the north
west shore of the Monterey Bay in the city of Santa Cruz. 
We
are a full service hospital offering medicine, surgery, and dentistry.
In addition to dogs and cats, our clinic also sees exotic pets. These range
from pocket pets (mice, rats, hamsters), to birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
I have been practicing veterinary medicine for 24 years. I have been working hard to make our practice a friendly
place to visit.
As many other veterinarians do, we have aquired many "hospital pets".
Here Alicia and I are seen with one of the hospital cats named Yagi. At the
hospital we have two other cats, Sam and Princess Barfy, and Max the sulfur
crested cockatoo.
NorCal
QRP Club http://www.fix.net/norcal.html
ARS Sojourner
QRP Club Magazine http://www.natworld.com/ars/
Montgomery Sailboat Owners Group http://www.msog.org
Electronic
mail address
Web address
Office phone
Our family loves to sail on our sloop, Solitude. She is a 23 foot Montgomery pocket cruiser, berthed in Bethel Island, CA. Bethel Island is located in the California Delta, a vast playground of some 1000 miles of waterway. The Delta offers warm winds and flat fresh water to sail on. The Delta opens into the San Francisco Bay and we frequently meet folks from all over Northern California there.
On a typical weekend we might enjoy a brisk sail to one of our many favorite anchorages. Then enjoy a nice swim, fish for striped bass, kayak, or play ham radio. In the evening, we make dinner and eat in the cockpit while watching the sunset over the water. After dinner, I usually enjoy the peace and quiet with a brandy and a fine cigar under the stars (everyone else is inside the boat holding their noses).
We have several other friends that also have sailboats. We frequently plan weekend excursions. One of our favorites is to the backside of Decker Island. This Island is located on the Sacramento River. The backside is out of the wind and traffic of the river and has nice beaches to barbeque on and set up a land based camp.
I started sailing about 18 years ago on windsurfers. As our family grew we moved on to larger keel boats so we all could play together.
I began my amateur radio career as
a means of communicating from my boat. I had just finished some navigation
and safety courses and felt that if I were to go cruising I should have
some means of communication. Well it didn't take long until I was hooked.
While in my beginning radio class, I was asked to send out my first "CQ"
in Morse code (that's ham radio for calling all stations). Immediately
a call came back from station VK4OD. VK4OD was Tom Dowling in Buderim,
Australia. My first call was half way around the world! It was magic, no
wires, light paths, satellites, or strings, just magic.
QRP
QRP means low power. To me it also means lots of fun. It is defined as using an output power of 5 watts or less. I have made contacts to Russia and Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina using just 2 watts. That is about a quarter of the power of a child's nightlight.
QRP also is a form of radio that gets back to the roots of Ham Radio. It is a form where a lot of homebrewing (making your own equipment and experimenting with it) exists. This is where the real fun comes in. I am a member of the Norcal QRP Club. I have made many friends that have helped teach me to build my own radios, antennas, and power supplies. These radios use very low power and run off small batteries, so they are perfect to use for boating and camping.
My Music Pages
My Boat Pages
Last Revised: 27 July 2003