I am the current secretary and former president of my radio club in Kingwood, Texas, the Texas Emergency Amateur Communicators (TEAC).
I am also a member of the Eastside Amateur Radio Service (EARS) the Oak Forest Amateur Radio Club (OFARC), the Radio Society of Great
Britain (RSGB), and a lifetime member of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL).
Operating Interests
- DX, Awards (DXCC, WAC, etc.), and QSL Cards
- Contesting, usually High Power Unlimited
- Portable Operations, POTA and SOTA
- Antenna Theory and Building
- Electronics and Kit Building
- Club Activities
- Emergency Communications and Preparedness
Hamfests & Events
Time permitting, I try to go to every local hamfest that I can but they often conflct with contests.
I have been waging a campaign to get the ARRL to STOP endorsing hamfests that occur on the same dates
as major ARRL sponsored contests.
I went to Dayton Hamvention in 2019 and have been going every year since. I complete Contest University
every year (the day before Hamvention). I went to Orlando Hamcation in 2022 and I want to go to Huntsville
Hamfest. If you've never been to a MAJOR hamfest, you should try to go.
Classic Radios
- E. F. Johnson Viking Valiant AM-CW Transmitter
- E. F. Johnson Viking II AM-CW Tranmitter
- Motorola R-390A Military Shortwave Receiver
- Heathkit SB-401 Transmitter
- Heathkit SB-300 Receiver
- Heathkit HW-8 CW Transmitter
- Drake 4 Lines (2)
Workbench
- Kit Building
- Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and other Microprocessor Projects
- Antenna Design and Building
Education
- BS in Biological Science, Minor in Geology, Sam Houston State University, 1999
- AA, Lone Star College, 2013
- AAS in Computer Programming, Lone Star College, 2013
- AAS in Electrical Engineering, Lone Star College, In Progress
Professional
I started out in Horticulture but that ambition fell away in college and I switched to Botany
and Geology. While at university, I learned Geographic Information Systems (G. I. S.) as a student
assistant in the Environmental Lab. I also worked as a research asistant in the Pteridphyte lab, and
a teaching assistant for several biology and one geography professors. After college, I started programming,
database design and development, and website development.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Intern
- National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian) Intern
- Harvard Papers in Botany: Published new species and generic reallignments in Pitcairnia
- Harvard Papers in Botany: Publishe a new tribe, and tribal reallignments in Pitcairnioideae