Collecting hobbies

The things that keep me busy when I'm not writing code. Some of them go back to the early 1990s; a couple started in the last two years.

Amateur Radio

Licensed since the late 1990s, from scanner listening and mobile VHF to HF, APRS, repeaters, SDRs, and digital-mode experiments.

Writing code since 1988, starting with BASIC on a VIC-20 and a TI CC-40.

Capturing nebulae and the changing night sky from a backyard observatory, with dedicated cameras, tracking mounts, and a great deal of weather.

More than half a million frames of events, candid moments, landscapes, flights, and projects, kept and catalogued since 1997.

Taking things apart, designing circuits, building radios, programming tiny controllers, and connecting physical systems.

RC helicopters, airplanes, gliders, and quadcopters, from repeated rebuilds to modern FPV flight.

Nearly 29,000 games of online chess, almost all of them at bullet and blitz speeds.

Learning guitar, bass, banjo, drums, synthesis, MIDI, and performance by steadily adding instruments to the problem.

Designing and printing functional parts, teaching aids, instruments, and enclosures, plus the occasional object that works better than it should.

Training for a Canadian private pilot licence, and flying around Alberta and the Rockies.

Singing bass in Edmonton pop a cappella choirs, starting with a first performance less than a day after I started.

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Hobbies listed

Years since first code

~1993

First SLR

~1997

First callsign