Greetings everyone!!!

Greetings everyone!

My name is Phil. I live near Minneapolis, MN. I’m a retired electronics engineer who has gotten back into electronics as a hobby. My primary areas of interest are autonomous communications, data encryption, and navigation. I have held an “Amateur Extra” class radio license for 20 years. Although I have not been very active in HAM radio recently, I have been doing a lot of experimenting with long range low power radio communications in the ISM bands, specifically LoRa radio on 915 MHz. My next radio adventure will be on 2.4 GHz.

I love to program in assembly language and I’ve done some pretty involved projects in the past with PIC microcontrollers. In the past year, I’ve learned Python, C/C++, and ARM assembly language.

I’ve acquired several Raspberry Pi 4 SBCs and am using them to run my encryption software and control those ISM radios to create a secure, portable data communications system. I’ve also acquired several different Arduinos and am currently using one to design an ECU for an old (and subborn) 4-cycle gasoline engine. (The ignition systems on small four-cycle engines are, in my opinion, rather “hokey” and shouldn’t be hard to improve upon.)

I have enjoyed DroneBot Workshop videos on YouTube for many months and have picked up quite a few “nuggets” of information. It was just recently, however, that I decided to check out the website and I’m very impressed! Thank you, Bill, for an incredible job!!!