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WD9ERI |
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Autopatch, sure, right, not in my lifetime. |
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aka BarbJackson |
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JimWilson and DaveAzpell and EricSmitt, I think, put together the first two meter repeater to serve the Lafayette community. At that time it took a rather lengthy application to the FCC to get a repeater call. Ours was WR9ACZ as I recall. |
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Ariel's done well; after years in acedemia, she now heads up R&D at a small biotech company in the Boston area. Still WD9ERI, too. -- PhilTemples |
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SteveBelter, DaveAzpell, JimWilson and BillThomas used a stove to SolderTheCavities. WardCunningham wrote the control program for the autopatch in 6800 assembler as five parallel tasks... TASKS FDB COR CARRIER OPERATION FDB CONTRL CONTROL FUNCTION PROCESSER FDB DIAL DIAL PULSE GENERATOR FDB RINGER INCOMMING CALL DETECTOR FDB IDENT IDENTIFIER The original source was recently located ... * http://c2.com/~ward/morse/RepeaterControl After a while the sensitivity of the repeater began to degrade badly. I recall how you could barely key it up, even standing in front of the equipment cabinet in the attic of Grad House! -- TomDoligalski |
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W2RQ |
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* WB9KPT * mailto:wthomas@prevuenet.com * mailto:wb9kpt@arrl.net |
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Bill was our favorite high-speed CW operator. He would sit and talk to those guys on 40M that I could only occasionally make out the word "the" every now and then. -- JimWilson |
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Web searching found ... |
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I am currently VP of Product Development for TV Guide On Screen in Denver, CO (we do exactly what it sounds like, electronic versions of TV Guide for cable and satellite systems). Previously I worked at Nielsen (TV ratings), Time Warner Cable, and Zenith Electronics ... Bill helped SolderTheCavities and run the OscarStation. Google searching reveals that Bill collects antique radios... * http://members.cox.net/okvrc/ * http://members.cox.net/okvrc/pictures/william_thomas/gallery1.htm |
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* http://www.k3lr.net/2000/lr0018.htm * http://www.k3lr.net/2000/lr0002a.htm |
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We'd like to assemble a term by term list of club presidents. Right now we have a few holes. |
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WB9CZC (mailto:azpell@ecn.purdue.edu) |
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* 82-83 KeithBrandt * 86-87 MikeRosenberg * 92-93 RobOstapink * 95-96 NickMiller * 01-02 JoshKittle Other presidents of unknown periods ... * TomDoligalski * WardCunningham * EricSmitt |
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Dave is a staff member of the Purdue School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. |
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WB9CZC (mailto:azpell@ecn.purdue.edu) |
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K9FN |
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Dave is a staff member of the Purdue School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. |
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Dave has been a long time faculty sponsor and station trustee. He is also program coordinator at WBAA-AM, 920 kHz. 1740 Elliott Hall Of Music Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907-1740 PHONE: 317-494-3961 FAX: 317-496-1542 Email Dave at either ... mailto:dpbunte@purdue.edu mailto:dpbunte@wbaa.org |
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* http://www.hamvention.org -- main site * http://www.hamvention.org/2001/2001.htm -- photos |
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W9GPP mailto:rd.evans@verizon.net I am located in Valparaiso, Indiana where I have worked in the steel industry for about 32 years now. I am not currently real active in Ham Radio but I still have the equipment and plans to get back on someday when I have time. My oldest daughter graduated from Purdue about four years ago. I was at the DaytonHamfest a few weekends ago with GregWestrup. We manage to make it to the Dayton Hamfest almost every year. I think we have missed only a few over the last 30 years. In 2000 & 2001 we got Dr. VicOhm out from California to join us at Dayton. |
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WB4RVA |
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K9ES (mailto:k9es@bellsouth.net) |
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I have been licensed since 1958, and have held the calls - KN3YWJ, K3YWJ, W9NQW, KA7YW, and K9ES |
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A W9YB ClubPresident. |
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QUALCOMM Incorporated 619-658-4438 mailto:etiedemann@qualcomm.com Yup, I'm with that crazy company called QUALCOMM. I am responsible for standards and the system engineering related to such. Since we invented CDMA technology for cellular and PCS that is a large order. |
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http://www.qsl.net/k9es/ -- lots of pictures |
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K9ES (mailto:k9es@bellsouth.net) |
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The club brought students together, sometimes just hanging around the station, other times working on projects. Here are some of the club's finer projects along with the people who worked on them... |
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I have been licensed since 1958, and have held the calls - KN3YWJ, K3YWJ, W9NQW, KA7YW, and K9ES A W9YB ClubPresident. http://www.qsl.net/k9es/ -- lots of pictures |
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* ThreeOneThousandLinear * OscarStation * AutopatchRepeater * MorseCodeTeachingMachine * MontecelloTornado * FieldDay * ShuttleContact |
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The club brought students together, sometimes just hanging around the station, other times working on projects. Here are some of the club's finer projects along with the people who worked on them... |
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Field day was a treat for those hams that stuck around all summer and even a few who made the trek back to West Lafayette just to participate. |
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* ThreeOneThousandLinear * OscarStation * AutopatchRepeater * MorseCodeTeachingMachine * MontecelloTornado * FieldDay * ShuttleContact |
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http:files/WardCunningham/fd68.jpg VicOhm, JanDitzian and MikeVoyles diagnose a sudden power failure during the 1968 field day operations at the Purdue dairy farm. http:files/WardCunningham/fd69.jpg MelCreighton diagnoses a sudden transmitter failure during the 1969 field day operations at (some camp's?) archery range east of town. That's a tube he is looking at. http:files/WardCunningham/fd75.jpg JimWilson diagnoses a sudden generator failure during the 1975 FieldDayAtHarrisonHigh. More of WardCunningham's field day photographs are avilable at http://bk.home.c2.com/~ward/pix/?./w9yb/FieldDay. |
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KX2A, Previously WA2LXK * mailto:KX2A@ARRL.NET * mailto:ditzian@alltel.net * mailto:ditzian@greenepa.net * http://www.greenepa.net/~ditzian/ from his website ... I have been licensed since 1960. My interests center around dx-chasing. The station is located in Mt. Morris, PA, just north of Morgantown, WV, on an 83-acre farm. I am a Ph.D. Certified Ergonomist with ten years of experience in industry. I have worked on military, government, and commercial projects. Send me e-mail with your name and telephone number or e-mail address if you want to discuss professional activity. Results from a web search for Jan ... * http://mbln.lib.ma.us/MARION/AIP-9333 * http://www.storm.ca/~vlyon/reunion2001/classmates2.html |
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WB9QLR mailto:msjohnso@ppdpost.ks.symbios.com I'm in Wichita, Kansas, where I've been since about 1978. My wife dragged me out here, and I ended up, after a slight redirect, getting an MS in Math from Wichita State (which is kind of like Purdue but about 1/3 the size, and much more commuter oriented). (Bonnie was an Aero Engineer and worked at Beech - now Raytheon - from 1978 to 1986. Never have gotten her to get her ham ticket, although prospects for it are better given the no-code Tech license. I just don't do much hamming these days - got 5 acres out in the country and still no antenna!) Yep...I'm the tall guy you probably remember (6' 4"). I well remember using your MorseCodeTeachingMachine at YB back in the days when we had to manually dial up your account at the compute center after every powerfail, to reload it. Boy, have things ever changed since then! In 1981 I started with NCR...at the time, the Wichita plant made minicomputer systems and OS. After a stint in software test & QA, then some time in PCB CAD support (library maintenance and release package automation), I ended up as a host-software developer...in the meantime, the name on the building changed from NCR to AT&T to Symbios Logic (when AT&T sold our division off to Hyundai of Korea). The plant now designs and manufactures RAID products - chips, boards, and subsystems up to 240 GB. We sell to OEMs, VARs, and AT&T (now renamed NCR, as you may have heard). [Wanna buy some terabytes?] After a bunch o' reorg, I'm still concerned with test & QA, which is how I found the C&C webpage. We've not done a lot of OO stuff here, after a rather disastrous digression into object-oriented C on a couple of projects. It works well enough, but those of us who had to maintain it got frustrated with all the levels of indirection. We couldn't do C++ at the time because there was no tool set for the processor platform of the time (68020 on the controller, and a whole bag full of different OS on the host side.) Our biggest challenge today is producing portable configuration and maintenance tools for our RAID products across all the OS flavors that our customers want. In effect, the GUI toolset we use now imposes a kind of OOPness on us (Neuron Data) but it doesn't port to every platform we need. That's a problem. Have run onto several other of our contemporaries from late 1970's @ Purdue lately...PhilTemples (K9HI, ex WB9EAY) is in Boston, now working as a sysadmin for a nonprofit org., and has his own website at http://www.temples.com. RichSaik (WB9UCA, and my old roommate) is in Huntsville AL at AZ Technologies, under contract to NASA. I have his email address but it's at home. There are a few others I've looked up in the callsign database but haven't been able to hook up with on-line. Was stomping around on campus in late Dec. while passing thru WL (my sister lives there) and came about 30 feet from stopping at the WBAA offices to see if DaveBunte was in that day. Didn't take the time, and I wish I had. There wasn't anybody up at 'YB that particular day either, although I went and shook the doorknob. |
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Could Mel be KC6QJT, now in Irvine, California? The birthday would be about right. |
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Mike Born (Jake the Butcher) W9JXT is still in the Chicago area working for the local power company, Commonwealth Edison. -- DickEvans |
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N9FIK (mailto:mrosenberg@pirod.com) |
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* mailto:born@ceco.ceco.com |
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Jake's son is currently at Purdue. |
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Mike Rosenberg...currently Amateur Advanced class with the sign N9FIK, formerly KA9SJY. First licensed in 1985. President of the YB for the 86-87 school year. I was the one who first organized ALL of the QSL cards in the summer of '85. Spent way too much time in the tower on 40m cw... Currently I am living 1/2 of a amateur radio buff's dream. I work for the largest antenna tower manufacturer in the world but my wife won't let me put up one in the back yard. Such is life... If you ever need a seriously heavy duty tower... http://www.pirod.com Incidently, DaveBunte uses Pi-Rod towers at both work and home. Here is a quote I found in google groups. -- WardCunningham In the broadcast biz (my field), I have seen lots of guyed towers...we have four of them here and all have single point bases that can pivot. By allowing the tower to swivel a bit in extreme condx, you allow the force to be shared by all the guys, rather than being concentrated at the point the base would otherwise enter the concrete. Our towers are Pi-Rod...a company that uses solid steel for the legs, rather than hollow tube...(I have one of their freestanding towers at 100') and they also recommend against securing the base in concrete, even though their style of construction might be able to take it. By the way, another strong reason to not bury a section in the concrete is that it is then much more difficult to control moisture in a hollow-leg tower. I have seen them rusted through so badly you would not dare climb 20' up. See http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=n4zrCvnpDH.BA1%40netcom.com for complete tower-base survey. |
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During the Spring or Summer of 1972 or 1973 (I can't remember exactly when) a tornado swept over West Lafayette and touched down in Monticello, IN pretty much tearing up the town. All sorts of hams from Purdue headed over to help with the relief effort, including Mel Peterson (WA9???, what WAS his call!?), Ray Hibnick (WA9YYY) and Tom Doligalski (WB9DXK). We set up a headquarters operation in what was left of the firehouse. Someone (Jim Wilson?) climbed the roof to set up antennas. -- TomDoligalski |
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HalCommunications donated an 8080 based single board computer (actually it was two boards, and not much more) to run a morse tutor program in the shack. The trouble was, our students were associate members, meaning they weren't licenced, so they had to leave whenever the last full member left the room.
WardCunningham wrote the program in 8080, 6800, 6502 and Pascal. JimWilson translated the Pascal to C for the PC. This last version will run under windows and can be downloaded from the net at http://c2.com/~ward/morse. A number of folks got their first tickets using this machine, including SueDoligalski (WB9TLY) |
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During the Spring or Summer of 1972 or 1973 (I can't remember exactly when) a tornado swept over West Lafayette and touched down in Monticello, IN pretty much tearing up the town. All sorts of hams from Purdue headed over to help with the relief effort, including MelPeterson (WA9???, what WAS his call!?), RayHibnick (WA9YYY) and TomDoligalski (WB9DXK). We set up a headquarters operation in what was left of the firehouse. JimWilson climbed the roof to set up antennas. -- TomDoligalski |
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HalCommunications donated an 8080 based single board computer (actually it was two boards, and not much more) to run a morse tutor program in the shack. The trouble was, our students were associate members, meaning they weren't licenced, so they had to leave whenever the last full member left the room. WardCunningham wrote the program in 8080, 6800, 6502 and Pascal. JimWilson translated the Pascal to C for the PC. This last version will run under windows and can be downloaded from the net at http://c2.com/~ward/morse/morse.html. A number of folks got their first tickets using this machine, including SueDoligalski (WB9TLY) |
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The student union use to be open 24 hours a day. That was great for the radio club because, as you know, hams like to operate all night. Then, about 1969, the students staged a Sleep-In in protest of increased housing fees. After about five days of students living in the union, sleeping on sleeping bags on the sofas, the management decided to shut it down. The union has been closing every night ever since. |
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aka Sue Correll |
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* http://www.union.purdue.edu/ -- student union * http://www.purdue.edu/odos/sao/ -- student activities * http://www.ssinfo.purdue.edu -- student services |
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Sue married TomDoligalski, WB9DXK (now N9CGD) in 1976. She and Tom now live in Cary, NC. Sue is active somewhat on 2 (147.15 repeater) and packet. |
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aka Sue Correll |
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N9NB |
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WB9TLY Sue married TomDoligalski, WB9DXK (now N9CGD) in 1976. She and Tom now live in Cary, NC. Sue is active somewhat on 2 (147.15 repeater) and packet. |
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One of the two of the faster cw operators in existence -- MikeRosenberg |
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N9NB |
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Tell your old yb friends about this site. Send them an email today. Ask them what's been happening in their life. Have them update this site, update it your self, or send me information and I'll do it for you (mailto:ward@c2.com). -- WardCunningham |
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One of the two of the faster cw operators in existence -- MikeRosenberg |
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Here are TipsForFindingFriends. |
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* W4KX * previously WB9DXK, N9CGD * mailto:tom@aro-emh1.army.mil * mailto:w4kx@nc.rr.com SueDoligalski (WB9TLY) and I live in Cary, NC. I work for the Army Research Office, and administer the Army's basic-research program in fluid dynamics. I'm still active in CW traffic handling, operating mostly on Saturday night CN (Carolina's net), 4RN and EAN. I also find time to operate a little Pactor on 20, lots of 2 meters (try 147.15 when in the area) and 440 FM. Also am active in the Cary Amateur Radio Club (past VP and Pres, and now roped into a second term as VP) and the Wake Digital Communications Group (WDCG). My oldest son Michael is busy trying for his ticket. I swiped a copy of the PC version of Ward's MorseCodeTeachingMachine, and he is busy typing away...maybe by the end of the summer he will have it (not enough time now with soccer, cub scouts, homework, etc.). |
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N9NC |
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One of the two of the faster cw operators in existence -- MikeRosenberg |
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N9NC |
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WB9VXS (mailto:teto@mbari.org) aka Meathead I had a chance to spend a day with Tom a few years back. He was piloting the deep submersable Alvin for Wood's Hole. It and its mother ship, Atlantas II, were in Newport, Oregon for a few days. Tom gave me a tour of his shop. He was chief information officer for the operation. He also gave me a tour of the Alvin. Tom had figured out that piloting the submersible was where its at and had done all of the study and boards and stuff to serve that duty as well. All I can say is that that machine was as complex and unusual as the lunar excursion module. The only difference is that the Alvin, unlike the LEM, found new lifeforms. -- WardCunningham |
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One of the two of the faster cw operators in existence -- MikeRosenberg |
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WB9VXS (mailto:teto@mbari.org) |
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6896 SW 67th Ave Portland, Oregon 97219 503-246-3563 mailto:ward@c2.com http://c2.com/~ward |
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aka Meathead |
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Purdue. I spent a decade at Purdue. I got my licence as a freshman and did my first operating from the club. I remember the club leaders of the era, guys like... |
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I had a chance to spend a day with Tom a few years back. He was piloting the deep submersable Alvin for Wood's Hole. It and its mother ship, Atlantas II, were in Newport, Oregon for a few days. |
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* JohnSolman * VicOhm * JanDitzian * DickEvans * DaveBunte |
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Tom gave me a tour of his shop. He was chief information officer for the operation. He also gave me a tour of the Alvin. Tom had figured out that piloting the submersible was where its at and had done all of the study and boards and stuff to serve that duty as well. All I can say is that that machine was as complex and unusual as the lunar excursion module. The only difference is that the Alvin, unlike the LEM, found new lifeforms. -- WardCunningham |
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Years later I felt the club had languished and it was now my turn to make things happen... * ClubPresident * NewsletterNightAtArnies * SundayPizzaBowling * MorseCodeTeachingMachine * SuperDuper Operating. I dropped out of ham radio when I took a job in the research labs a Tektronix. It was really the club that had held my interest, not ham radio. I've kept my ticket renewed all these years, and my life membership keeps the QST comming every month. So the last few years finds me operating a 50 watt Ten Tec Scout on 40 cw now and then, talking to nobody in particular. Morse Code. I finally learned the code well enough to copy in my head. That makes it a lot more fun. To hone my skill I set the rig up by my bed so I could work a few qsos in the dark when I woke up in the middle of the night. I had to quit though. I fell asleep in the middle of a qso a couple times. I also got too much flack from my wife, Karen. (That's above and beyond the call...my radio room is just off the master bedroom! -- TomDoligalski) Working. I spent 10 yrs at Tektronix. I started doing uP based prototypes, got into IC cad, did some chip design, then got hooked on object-oriented programming. I've been working with Smalltalk (developed at Xerox Parc in the '70s) ever since. I worked for a small company for almost four years where I developed a bond trading application in Smalltalk. Since then I've been consulting to big companies (often banks or insurance companies, some more interesting) that are using Smalltalk. I work a week or two a month which is enough to keep me going. The rest of the time I just putter in my office. I consider myself a self-funded academic. My specialty is objects. I've also helped create a movement that goes by the unusual name Pattern Languages of Programs. We hold conferences and have several books out. (See http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/patterns/patterns.html) An Odd Thing. I had a car wreck a few years ago. I was knocked out but managed to shoot a few photos anyway. I scanned them recently and put together one of my better pages: http://c2.com/~ward/wreck/. Family. I have two boys, age 8 and 11. The older, Patrick, has the engineering mind. I remember when he was four I found him with the toilet cover off, explaining how it worked to his one year old brother. The younger, Christopher, is the artist. He has always had an ear for music and responds to it. I come from a family of two brother who never got along so getting along is something my boys work on a lot. For example, I often ask one to do the other's chore, like running a left-out item of clothing to the hamper. Scouting. The boys are both into scouts. Karen is the scout mom, I just tag along. The scouts have some great facilities out here, beach property, mountain property, sea scouts with big ships, lots of cool stuff that the scouts use. For example, they maintain a ranch with about fifty horses. They summer high on Mount Hood and winter in a sheltered valley fifty miles away. Well, each spring and fall they get fifty volunteer scouts to ride the horses between the ranches. It takes a week going up, a few days less comming down. It's on our list of must-dos. Adventure. I'm much less of a plan ahead parent. My idea of fun is what we've come to call "adventure". On a moments notice we'll head into the city (for example) just to see what's happening. Adventure means that we don't know what we'll be doing, or even if it will be fun. Our adventures have turned into fountain walks, park concerts, indian rights protests (we just watched) and light-rail tours. We had one adventure where my car was towed. It seems that I had parked in a place reserved for squad cars. We got to meet the nice lady in the police station (which whas right there -- how convenient) who sent us by bus to the impound lot on the other side of town, where we met a german traveler trying to figure out the bus schedule, who was still waiting for the bus after we got our car back, so we drove her to her destination, which was youth hostel and we got to hear a lot of travel stories on the way. Yea, that was a good adventure. You know, If I hadn't been a dad, and hadn't had my kids along for company, I probably wouldn't have liked having my car towed at all. That's why I like being a dad. |
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6896 SW 67th Ave Portland, Oregon 97219 503-246-3563 mailto:ward@c2.com http://c2.com/~ward |
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These pages are for alumni of the PurdueAmateurRadioClub, W9YB. You can find, add to, or correct pages using the Edit button at the bottom of every page. Try the button on some existing pages to get an idea how this works. |
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Purdue. I spent a decade at Purdue. I got my licence as a freshman and did my first operating from the club. I remember the club leaders of the era, guys like... |
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* PastMembers that we know about. * FamousProjects and the people who worked on them. * TellYourFriends to participate by email. |
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* JohnSolman * VicOhm * JanDitzian * DickEvans * DaveBunte |
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We have pictures from FieldDay. We're looking for more old W9YB photos. Please send us links, scans or even prints with self-addressed stamped envelopes. -- WardCunningham I have several W9YB license plates that I am planning on unloading. I was intending to go to e-bay and see if there is any market for the W9YB plates... but have not yet done so. If interested in a W9YB plate, let me know. -- DaveBunte |
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Years later I felt the club had languished and it was now my turn to make things happen... |
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* ClubPresident * NewsletterNightAtArnies * SundayPizzaBowling * MorseCodeTeachingMachine * SuperDuper |
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Search this site: [Search] |
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Operating. I dropped out of ham radio when I took a job in the research labs a Tektronix. It was really the club that had held my interest, not ham radio. I've kept my ticket renewed all these years, and my life membership keeps the QST comming every month. So the last few years finds me operating a 50 watt Ten Tec Scout on 40 cw now and then, talking to nobody in particular. |
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About this site: * GoodStyle * YogiKudos * http:changes.cgi |
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Morse Code. I finally learned the code well enough to copy in my head. That makes it a lot more fun. To hone my skill I set the rig up by my bed so I could work a few qsos in the dark when I woke up in the middle of the night. I had to quit though. I fell asleep in the middle of a qso a couple times. I also got too much flack from my wife, Karen. (That's above and beyond the call...my radio room is just off the master bedroom! -- TomDoligalski) |
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Working. I spent 10 yrs at Tektronix. I started doing uP based prototypes, got into IC cad, did some chip design, then got hooked on object-oriented programming. I've been working with Smalltalk (developed at Xerox Parc in the '70s) ever since. I worked for a small company for almost four years where I developed a bond trading application in Smalltalk. Since then I've been consulting to big companies (often banks or insurance companies, some more interesting) that are using Smalltalk. |
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These pages are hosted by WardCunningham. YogiBear's image is copyright (c) Hanna-Barbarra and used with permission. |
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I work a week or two a month which is enough to keep me going. The rest of the time I just putter in my office. I consider myself a self-funded academic. My specialty is objects. I've also helped create a movement that goes by the unusual name Pattern Languages of Programs. We hold conferences and have several books out. (See http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/patterns/patterns.html) |
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An Odd Thing. I had a car wreck a few years ago. I was knocked out but managed to shoot a few photos anyway. I scanned them recently and put together one of my better pages: http://c2.com/~ward/wreck/. Family. I have two boys, age 8 and 11. The older, Patrick, has the engineering mind. I remember when he was four I found him with the toilet cover off, explaining how it worked to his one year old brother. The younger, Christopher, is the artist. He has always had an ear for music and responds to it. I come from a family of two brother who never got along so getting along is something my boys work on a lot. For example, I often ask one to do the other's chore, like running a left-out item of clothing to the hamper. Scouting. The boys are both into scouts. Karen is the scout mom, I just tag along. The scouts have some great facilities out here, beach property, mountain property, sea scouts with big ships, lots of cool stuff that the scouts use. For example, they maintain a ranch with about fifty horses. They summer high on Mount Hood and winter in a sheltered valley fifty miles away. Well, each spring and fall they get fifty volunteer scouts to ride the horses between the ranches. It takes a week going up, a few days less comming down. It's on our list of must-dos. Adventure. I'm much less of a plan ahead parent. My idea of fun is what we've come to call "adventure". On a moments notice we'll head into the city (for example) just to see what's happening. Adventure means that we don't know what we'll be doing, or even if it will be fun. Our adventures have turned into fountain walks, park concerts, indian rights protests (we just watched) and light-rail tours. We had one adventure where my car was towed. It seems that I had parked in a place reserved for squad cars. We got to meet the nice lady in the police station (which whas right there -- how convenient) who sent us by bus to the impound lot on the other side of town, where we met a german traveler trying to figure out the bus schedule, who was still waiting for the bus after we got our car back, so we drove her to her destination, which was youth hostel and we got to hear a lot of travel stories on the way. Yea, that was a good adventure. You know, If I hadn't been a dad, and hadn't had my kids along for company, I probably wouldn't have liked having my car towed at all. That's why I like being a dad. |
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6896 SW 67th Ave Portland, Oregon 97219 503-246-3563 mailto:ward@c2.com http://c2.com/~ward http://c2.com/~ward/morse -- ham pages http://c2.com/~ward/irlp -- IrlpNode |
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These pages are for alumni of the PurdueAmateurRadioClub, W9YB. You can find, add to, or correct pages using the Edit button at the bottom of every page. Try the button on some existing pages to get an idea how this works. |
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Purdue. I spent a decade at Purdue. I got my licence as a freshman and did my first operating from the club. I remember the club leaders of the era, guys like... |
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* PastMembers that we know about. * FamousProjects and who did them. * ScannedMemorabilia from our attics. * TellYourFriends to participate by email. |
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* JohnSolman * VicOhm * JanDitzian * DickEvans * DaveBunte |
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JohnSellers starts our digital collection of club NewsLetters with scans from his tenure as editor in 1966. Lead story: Eimac to donate finals. |
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Years later I felt the club had languished and it was now my turn to make things happen... |
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* ClubPresident * NewsletterNightAtArnies * SundayPizzaBowling * MorseCodeTeachingMachine * SuperDuper |
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Search this site: [Search] |
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Operating. I dropped out of ham radio when I took a job in the research labs a Tektronix. It was really the club that had held my interest, not ham radio. I've kept my ticket renewed all these years, and my life membership keeps the QST comming every month. So the last few years finds me operating a 50 watt Ten Tec Scout on 40 cw now and then, talking to nobody in particular. |
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Morse Code. I finally learned the code well enough to copy in my head. That makes it a lot more fun. To hone my skill I set the rig up by my bed so I could work a few qsos in the dark when I woke up in the middle of the night. I had to quit though. I fell asleep in the middle of a qso a couple times. I also got too much flack from my wife, Karen. (That's above and beyond the call...my radio room is just off the master bedroom! -- TomDoligalski) |
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Working. I spent 10 yrs at Tektronix. I started doing uP based prototypes, got into IC cad, did some chip design, then got hooked on object-oriented programming. I've been working with Smalltalk (developed at Xerox Parc in the '70s) ever since. I worked for a small company for almost four years where I developed a bond trading application in Smalltalk. Since then I've been consulting to big companies (often banks or insurance companies, some more interesting) that are using Smalltalk. I work a week or two a month which is enough to keep me going. The rest of the time I just putter in my office. I consider myself a self-funded academic. My specialty is objects. I've also helped create a movement that goes by the unusual name Pattern Languages of Programs. We hold conferences and have several books out. (See http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/patterns/patterns.html) An Odd Thing. I had a car wreck a few years ago. I was knocked out but managed to shoot a few photos anyway. I scanned them recently and put together one of my better pages: http://c2.com/~ward/wreck/. Family. I have two boys, age 8 and 11. The older, Patrick, has the engineering mind. I remember when he was four I found him with the toilet cover off, explaining how it worked to his one year old brother. The younger, Christopher, is the artist. He has always had an ear for music and responds to it. I come from a family of two brother who never got along so getting along is something my boys work on a lot. For example, I often ask one to do the other's chore, like running a left-out item of clothing to the hamper. Scouting. The boys are both into scouts. Karen is the scout mom, I just tag along. The scouts have some great facilities out here, beach property, mountain property, sea scouts with big ships, lots of cool stuff that the scouts use. For example, they maintain a ranch with about fifty horses. They summer high on Mount Hood and winter in a sheltered valley fifty miles away. Well, each spring and fall they get fifty volunteer scouts to ride the horses between the ranches. It takes a week going up, a few days less comming down. It's on our list of must-dos. Adventure. I'm much less of a plan ahead parent. My idea of fun is what we've come to call "adventure". On a moments notice we'll head into the city (for example) just to see what's happening. Adventure means that we don't know what we'll be doing, or even if it will be fun. Our adventures have turned into fountain walks, park concerts, indian rights protests (we just watched) and light-rail tours. We had one adventure where my car was towed. It seems that I had parked in a place reserved for squad cars. We got to meet the nice lady in the police station (which whas right there -- how convenient) who sent us by bus to the impound lot on the other side of town, where we met a german traveler trying to figure out the bus schedule, who was still waiting for the bus after we got our car back, so we drove her to her destination, which was youth hostel and we got to hear a lot of travel stories on the way. Yea, that was a good adventure. You know, If I hadn't been a dad, and hadn't had my kids along for company, I probably wouldn't have liked having my car towed at all. That's why I like being a dad. My boys are now 16 and 19. The younger has just returned from 10 days of backpacking at PhilmontScoutRanch which has me thinking of JohnSolman, who wore the same red wool jacket with the Philmont bull emblem. http://www.boyscoutstore.com/store/ProdImages/b41n09664s.jpg My boys are both in their 20s now and out of the house. Karen and I get to pay more attention to ourselves and each other. Sweet. I've been hanging out at DorkbotPDX which is a little like a ham radio club but without the radio. * http://c2.com/cybords/wiki.cgi?DorkbotPdx |
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These pages are for alumni of the PurdueAmateurRadioClub, W9YB. You can find, add to, or correct pages using the hyperlinks at the bottom of every page. Try the links on some existing pages to get an idea how this works. * PastMembers and their calls. * FamousProjects and the people who worked on them. * TellYourFriends to participate by email. We're looking for old photos. Please send us links, scans or even prints with self-addressed stamped envelope. -- WardCunningham Search this site: [Search] About this site: * GoodStyle * http:changes.cgi These pages are hosted by WardCunningham. Yogi's image is copyright (c) Hanna-Barbarra and used with permission. |
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The west tower of the StudentUnion looked much like the south tower pictured below. |
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Yogi and his friend Boo Boo romp around Jellystone Park much to the consternation of Ranger Smith. Yogi was cartoon bread and butter in the '60s. |
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Good idea. Interesting information, to say the least. -- RichSaik |
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* http://www.aristotle.net/~cgsports/ -- fan page * http://members.aol.com/PaulEC2/yogi.html -- tv frames * http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/doc/hbtour/ -- studio * http://c2.com/w4/yb/wiki.cgi?MarkJohnson "This is Wiskey Niner Yogi Bear" |
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For some reason I happened to be looking around early this morning and decided to see what there was on W9YB. For some reason, I decided to look at all the hits and ran across your web pages. I can't tell you how excited I was to see what you had there. -- DickEvans |
