My Amateur Radio Callsign is VA7GHA. The OCARC in Kelowna British Columbia has supplied the Sector Radios for the Vernon BC (NORAC) end of our functioning HamWan link (hamwan.ca), A wonderful development from the Puget Sound. Now all I have to do is get the hardware and point it in the right direction. (hamwan.org) Here is a Map of the Puget Sound Data which is the origial HamWan. Ring...

Overlaid on this image is a map of our Local HamWan with the Vernon tower connected at Turtle Mountian and if you look closely you can see someone in Pentiction has a good connection (green dot) to the Okanagan Mountain tower south of Kelowna.

According to the OCARC technical committee if we can get links to reach the US Canada border the Puget Sound Data Ring will hook our HamWan into theirs which has linked towers as far north as Bellingham Washington, USA and as Far South as Vancouver Washington which reach people in Portland Oregon. They also have a network link connecting a tower in Victoria BC Canada.

Below is a picture of me during an 'expedition' to recover equipment after the structural failure of a VHF/UHF repeater tower in 2017. I'm second from the left.

I have been known to tinker with Arduino or Raspberry Pi boards I should get some Arduino pro Micro boards so I can build simple USB keyboards for my Raspberry Pi boards. I have two Raspi B 1 Rev 2 boards, 2 Raspi B 4 boards, and a Raspi zero. I like the arduino Mini's and Micros because you can fit them more easily into an altoids tin.

I've been a proud Linux user since 1995, but realize that I could have started much sooner with some version of BSD. I'd heard about SDF.org for some time and now that I see it started in 1987 and wish I'd heard about it sooner.

Back in the '90s I had an idea to kind of better explain Linux to people. This picture of Obi Tux Kenobi was created by my Brother in Law, Mark Sprague. It was his idea to use a snippet of the multithreading code from the linux kernel (1.2.13) as the Star Wars style Scrolling text.