About the author
Gregory Smith is a retired electronic technologist who worked in new product design, electronic test fixture design, and new product compliance to federal, military, and international standards for the Ohaus Corp. and ASCO Power Technologies/Emerson Network Power. At Gow-Mac Instrument Company, he wrote instruction manuals for all their products.
He attended both County College of Morris and National Radio Institute in Washington, D.C. His interest in radio communication began in seventh grade when he became a radio amateur, and then near retirement achieved his Advanced Class FCC License of W2GLS.
In 2006, he began writing for Monitoring Times Magazine with "Tales of a Teenage Radio Amateur," then became a regular writer for the magazine. Three of his stories were chosen as cover stories. "Who Really Invented Morse Code" unveiled the truth that Alfred Vail was the real inventor of Morse code. "How to Catch a Spy," kept readers on the edge of their seats as the author and three other radio amateurs triangulated a spy's location in PA, reporting it to the FBI. Years later, CBS broadcasted on "60 Minutes" "The Spy Among Us", believed to be the same spy.
In 2018 he published his first book—Mischievous in Mendham, a Collection of Childhood Memories.
He is a member of Tom Cantillon's Creative Writers' Group in Chatham.