I was born in Michigan in 1946, grew up in Tucson Az., spent my working life in Silicon Valley, moved to a small farming town in Iowa in 2004. I worked for a Data Loss Protection company until retirement in 2014. Hunted for a year then in the summer of 2015 moved to five acres out in farming country and started my Ham Radio antenna farm.

I am a Ham Radio operator (NG0G) first licensed in 1979. I home brew my own beer. My favourite is a pre Prohibition Stock ale. Hops is the word. I love well made, coffee. I enjoy Bluegrass music, and listening to baseball games on the radio. And I have a passion for Dirt Track Auto racing. "If you don't have a little dirt in your beer, you are at the wrong track" I am also very interested in Astronomy, and Physics.

Back in the 60's, while in the U.S. Navy I was a Radioman on a Fast Attack nuclear Submarine. I lived in the U.S.S Haddock SSN-621 for about two and a half years.

I am happily married to a wonderful woman of Irish descent named Glenna. And I have two grown children, five grandchildren, three great grandchildren, and an 18 year old Lhasa Apso named Amy, that thinks I am her Dad or another dog, or both. (Sadly Amy, a great dog for 18.5 years, went to Dog heaven in January of 2010)