A digital playground for amateur radio, packet networks, homelab tinkering, electronics, lasers, carnivorous plants, and good cookouts.
AMATEUR RADIO
General Class operator — first licensed in 1991 (no-code), upgraded to General on Feb 1, 2003. Drawn to radio as a kid in the early '70s by mentor Frank Kime. HF, VHF/UHF, and a lifelong fascination with what RF can do.
PACKET RADIO
LinBPQ node N9LYA-8 (LYANOD). AMPRNet / 44Net coordination for Indiana, the SWOH network, and AX.25 routing across the region.
HOMELAB
Proxmox on an HP DL380 Gen9, dual Tesla P4 GPUs, MikroTik RB5009, Home Assistant, and a 50-panel SolarEdge array under watch.
ELECTRONICS & LASERS
30+ years in industrial electrical and RF test gear. Still building, measuring, and pointing coherent light at things.
CARNIVOROUS PLANTS
Venus flytraps, pitcher plants, and the slow patient business of growing things that bite back.
COOKING OUT
Fire, smoke, and the only kind of network latency that doesn't matter — low and slow.
DEEP THOUGHT
The ship's computer, working through first principles, mentorship, and what comes after the final mission.
BUILT WITH CLAUDE
This whole sector — the homelab rebuilds, the VPN migrations, the LCARS interfaces, the 3AM troubleshooting sessions — got built through months of back-and-forth with Anthropic's Claude. N9LYA drove every decision; Claude was the second set of hands that made the pace possible. Proud of what this partnership has produced.