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Here's a summery intro to get to know me:
I am formerly of PCJ Radio International, and Shortwave America before that.
Radio has been a passion and love of mine since my young days, and I was once very connected to Rabbi Doug (Doug Zelden) of "Taped With Rabbi Doug" and the Kevin Matthews Show.
I worked Saturday afternoons with Ed Tyll over at WLUP AM-1000 in the golden age of Chicago radio.
I am the co-author of the Chicago Scanner and CrimeisDown Scanner Listening Guide / Media Style Guide for Chicago Public Safety Reporting
Radio has led to me to learn a lot of things which include how to use the records archives of our federal government to discover the history of radio in federal law enforcement & intelligence work, as well as local City of Chicago law enforcement, emergency communications, and other public safety records archives.
My interest in these matters comes not only from my own communications interest, but also from my family's military and law enforcement history.
Radio has led me to a thirst to learn more about the world around me, and how the governments of the world operate. Naturally, this means I am constantly learning about he various political belief systems of the world.
If you haven't guessed by now, I'm also an OSINT geek.
Open-Source Intelligence has a place in radio, and as a matter of fact, radio is a source of OSINT. Radio generates more OSINT than probably any other medium of communication, and is also used to relay critically needed OSINT when called upon to function in that manner.
In all of this I have come to learn that one can't learn about all of this without learning about how our nation's Dept of State works, including the Diplomatic Security Service and Diplomatic Research & Intelligence functions, which holds hands with the wider intelligence community.
Some radio amateurs are the type who understand math and components, and they can build you a great radio. Some radio amateurs understand radio in the role of logistics and operational field communications for planned mass special events, and yet others understand radio in the context of antennas, feed lines, power supplies, propagation, etc.
Some of our fellow radio amateurs are great elmers and have strengths that allow them to teach radio science.
Then you have people like me who understand radio through the lens of international broadcasting, story telling, government emergency communications, and intelligence profession usage, antennas, feed lines, power supplies, and propagation.
Thanks for getting to know me a bit, and I hope to hear you on any given amateur mode I happen to be operating at any given time!