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<DIV>Good bio, we have much to talk about, maybe a QSO if sun spots ever come back.</DIV>
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<DIV>Jim, N1KWZ<BR><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 4/21/09, Richard Ames <I><richard@ames.id.au></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Richard Ames <richard@ames.id.au><BR>Subject: [hpsdr] Introducing myself<BR>To: "hpsdr" <hpsdr@lists.hpsdr.org><BR>Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 9:13 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****<BR><BR>A Not so short bio:<BR><BR>Born London, UK; late 1946; Australian mother, American (USA) father.<BR><BR>School years in Los Angeles, except for two years in England.<BR><BR>Joined US Navy in 1967, retired in 1987. Electronics Technician trained<BR>in Radar but spent entire career in the submarine service. Initial<BR>speciality was inertial navigation (first computer was a Verdan see:<BR><A href="http://www.tendertale.com/tttj/tttj2-5.html" target=_blank>http://www.tendertale.com/tttj/tttj2-5.html</A> and scan down to middle of<BR>page). Next did ocean floor searching. Lastly at a command running the<BR>Transit satellite system (precursor to GPS, see<BR><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_" target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_</A>(satellite) where I introduced the<BR>command to the DDN <A
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Data_Network" target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Data_Network</A><BR>Managed to advance from Seaman Recruit to Lieutenant (Limited Duty<BR>Officer, Electronics).<BR><BR>Along the way married a lovely young Australian lady - Susan. (1976)<BR><BR>My first Internet account was in about 1981 on a computer named trout at<BR>NOSC in San Diego. I still have found memories of using rtfm.mit.edu to<BR>look up all kinds for useful data: see <A href="http://rtfm.mit.edu/" target=_blank>http://rtfm.mit.edu/</A> . You might<BR>be amazed or annoyed the MIT allows this, [see<BR><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM" target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM</A> ] and has for almost 30 years to my<BR>knowledge.<BR><BR>Along the way did a CS in computer science and a MS in Management.<BR><BR>Migrated to Australia in 1987 (see mother and wife above), intend to die<BR>here.<BR><BR>Worked for
DEC<BR><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation" target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation</A> 1987 - 1992.<BR><BR>See the web for more recent stuff --- <BR><BR><A href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/linsup.com" target=_blank>http://web.archive.org/web/*/linsup.com</A><BR><A href="http://www.opensupport.com.au/" target=_blank>http://www.opensupport.com.au/</A><BR><A href="http://xr.com/t65" target=_blank>http://xr.com/t65</A> (PDF, page 3 upper right - resigned from Rotary in<BR>2008 after 14 years.)<BR><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ariconte" target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ariconte</A> (My edit<BR>history on Wikipedia)<BR><BR>Recently decided to take up 'amateur radio' as a hobby. Member of WIA,<BR>ARRL, RSGB, MWRS, HADARC.....<BR><BR>Cheers, Richard.<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>HPSDR Discussion
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