I was first licensed on June 15, 1993. My main pursuits in ham radio are home-brewing, working DX, hunting Parks on the Air stations, etc. Ever since I was a kid, I've been fascinated with electronics. I loved to take apart devices, especially radios, just to see how they were built (my 5-year-old is starting to do this). I seldom could put them back together. I built my first AM transmitter when I was about 8 years old and learned how to program computers in BASIC 2 years later. Nowadays, I pretty much do the same thing but on a more advanced level. I'm not an expert in anything but I'm always reading and learning something new.

I graduated from Regis University with a BS in computer information systems. I'm a Linux guy so I use Kubuntu Linux on all machines except for the servers which run vanilla Ubuntu Server. A small army of virtual machines do number crunching for the Folding@Home project at Stanford University. I enjoy studying programming languages like java, C, and python. Lately, my focus has been on shell scripting and python, some for work but mostly as a hobby. I've also been having some fun with the Raspberry Pi miniature computers.

I'm located in Kansas City, MO and I work from home as a System Engineer at a large US-based tech company. It's said that if you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life and that describes me well. I'm very blessed.

I like to work all the bands I can, given my current real estate. I'm usually on 20, 40, or 17 meters. As for repeaters, I do more lurking than anything else but I do enjoy some of the local nets. 900 MHz is my favorite band so I can pretty much always be reached on 927.5875 or 972.5 if you're close!

I recently decided to try out DMR so I bought some Motorola Mototrbo MTX-4350s for VHF and UHF. It's not as busy as I had hoped but it's OK. My radio ID is 3213607. I'm also in the process of adding a digital packet node on a Raspberry Pi to put the old dual-band Icom back to work.

I can be reached by email at .