Paul Swearingen, publisher of the NRC's DX News magazine since 1988, has been an active DX'er since the middle '50's, when he started listening with a 5-tube Radiola table-top radio (which he still has!). Paul has been a secondary school teacher (English, journalism, Spanish, etc.) off and on since the late '60's and was involved in radio during his college years and into the early '70's, doing everything for several stations in eastern Kansas but engineering - or making enough money to stay in broadcasting!

His involvement with the NRC started in 1975, and in the late '70's he volunteered to edit "International DX Achievements" and the yearly DX News index. He took over Musings of the Members from the legendary Ernie Cooper in 1982 while living in California, and eventually became editor and publisher of DX News (and still compiles the annual index, plus IDXA, DDXA, and even fills in occasionally when columns are "between" editors).

Other radio-related hobbies for Paul include collecting radio station mugs (at NRC conventions, which he's attended regularly since the '80's, he's known as "Mr. Coffee"), radio refrigerator magnets, selected air checks, and multi-band portables. In his spare time, he likes to garden, read and collect books, try to keep his two Barracudas, an ugly Dodge A-100 pickup, and other MoPar products running, and collect and work on Macintoshes and other computers.

Paul has also belonged to various community, service, and professional organizations like 4-H (county photography leader, re-established a local chapter), Jaycees (state officer), a Bi-Centennial committee (county chairman), and the Topeka chapter of the Kansas-National Educational Association (board member and secretary-treasurer).

Paul has lived in Topeka, KS since 1987. You may contact him via or USPS mail at P. O. Box 5711 - Topeka, KS 66605-1427.