I was first licensed on June 15, 1993. My main pursuits in ham radio are home-brewing and working DX. 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. 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 Fedora Linux on all machines except for the servers which run Ubuntu. 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 C++. Lately, my focus has been on shell scripting, web programming, and databases; 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 Oracle. 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 or 40 meters. I also like digital modes like PSK31 and Hellschreiber. Hopefully, one of these decades we'll see another good sunspot cycle like we had in the early 90s. As for repeaters, I do more lurking than anything else but I do enjoy some of the local nets. I can be reached at .