Outside of work, most of what I do still comes back to building, fixing, and understanding how things connect — on the air, on the water, and in the field.
Licensed operator running an Icom IC-7300 transceiver, with an active interest in ham radio software and contesting. Hours on the air have earned confirmed contacts across every inhabited continent, all 50 U.S. states, and 81 European entities — full stats on the Awards page.
Full award stats and confirmed-contact counts →
Pulled live every 30 seconds from a small Flask dashboard running on its own LXC in the Rocknet Lab cluster — solar indices and HF propagation estimates from hamqsl.com, plus real-time DX cluster spots, republished here the same way the lab page republishes its cluster telemetry.
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Spend as much time as possible on Michigan's lakes, trails, and back roads — fishing for walleye, northern pike, and musky, camping across the state, and getting out on two wheels.
Currently restoring a 1970 StarCraft Super Star, a 14-foot aluminum boat — working through hull refinishing, paint selection, and interior rebuild from the ground up.
The same curiosity that drives the Rocknet Lab and the ham shack shows up at work, too — always looking for the next system worth understanding.