I’ve had an interest in radio from a young age, though it was not developed further. My grandfather had a long career working with radio, but it was not until a few years after his passing I developed my interest into a passion with amateur radio.
I received my license in 2021 through a class run by my local club, the Bergen Group of NRRL, where I am now a board member. Even before receiving my license, I started getting a feeling that CW was the mode for me and tried learning a bit on and off. The summer of 2023 I got serious with attempting getting on the air with CW, and after getting on the air I KNEW that CW was my mode and I signed up for CW Academy to really develop my skills. I feel very privileged to have been able to take the CW Academy course with Buzz AC6AC, first in Intermediate with Heather AH7RF, Marv W5DT, and WM6T as co-advisors, and then advance with Shirley M0WXG and N4DPM as co-advisors. I express my sincere gratitude towards them all and the rest of the CW Academy for lending so much of their time to help CW ops develop their skills and help keep Morse code alive.
For work I am a software engineer working mostly with 3D graphics. Like many other software engineers, I like tinkering with programming in my free time, and I also play around with some early microprocessors for some home brew computing.
A big thanks to Buzz AC6AC for nominating me, and to M0WXG, N4DPM, SM1TDE, AA3B, and SM5ACQ for being willing to sponsor me.
This biography is what appeared in Solid Copy when the member joined CWops.