K3HUW
"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge"
-Carl Sagan
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt
Science is implementation agnostic, while engineering is all about the implementation. Academically and professionally I value the rigors of science, but in my free time, I enjoy getting down to nuts and bolts and working out the details required to actually make something. This page documents a few of the projects that I've worked on throughout the years. Besides having an immense amount of fun, I believe that I have learned a lot of practical knowledge by turning these projects from ideas into actual reality. Something that may appear simple in concept, might require a surprising amount of finesse, optimization, tweaking, and an innordinate number of details before it can work fully. That process is fun to me.
I really love using the right tool for a job, it makes any task so much more gratifying. This goes for any type of tool, from a simple hand-made woodworking jig, to a complex network analyzer. I often wonder, though, what makes the tool that made my tool? And what tool made that tool? Can you trace everything back to a rock or a stick?
One amateur radio goal of mine is to assemble my own station from the ground up. I've enjoyed working on some RF tools to make this feasible. Some are simple like a basic RF probe, and ultimately I'd like to complete my spectrum analyzer (WIP).
This web page will document some of my projects in various stages of completion. Feel free to contact me at 
, replace the "slow" with "fast". I may have a few extra PCBs for some of them.