I’ve always enjoyed working with technology (unless it’s actively trying to fight me), and my many side projects are a testament to that.
There’s probably a lot more that I’ve worked with over the years than I have here, but I’m always trying out new things and writing up my experience (when I remember…)
Just like all things space and aviation, I’ve also always been fascinated with everything weather-related. I also like collecting data - so put those two things together and having a personal weather station (PWS) at my house seemed like an obvious answer, right? I’ve had one off and on at 3 different houses now. The “off” period was when a tornado destroyed the last one in 2020 and I finally bought a new one at the beginning of 2022.
I’ve always been interested in learning about radio frequencies and amateur radio topics. But until recently, that’s all I was really doing - just learning about them and not doing anything hands on. In the past year I’ve been working on changing that a little bit. I’ve finally gotten my amateur radio license, and I’ve purchased a couple of SDR (software defined radio) units to tinker with as well.