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No, not a programmer. Did a little year ago before PC’s developed (in Basic). Built my first PC in 1982 from junk.

Have been Ham Operator since 1976. Did a lot of home brew construction in the beginning. Ran around with several engineers who worked at the Labs (when I was living in NM).

Miss that a bit.

When I moved back to TX in 1986 there were not that many technical Hams.

I ran a Navy MARS station out of my home for over 19 years. love the Military personnel.

In 1988 I moved to near Oklahoma City and there were some good tech’s there, but I was gone a lot. We had a very active group though.

Moved back to TX about 12-13 years ago, and am away from the good techs again.

Have taught electronics (RF) at an AFB near here a couple of times. Summer short courses for GROL license exam. I have a Commercial license also.

But I spend most of my time Entering or Extracting Data from our AS400 IBM and composing it on my PC. Have several Linux boxes I use at times also, when I find something I need done that is not possible on the PC. Less of that now, some of the good Open Source Apps have been ported for Windows now.

If I could find an Open Source replacement for my CAD program and a scriptable Publishing Program I would not use Windows at all. Really like Linux. Have run it for over 10 years. Very fast and Stable OS.

Enough of that rambling, we have a political battle to fight, am sure my war stories are boring.

Have a good evening.