About

+ Born in Brisbane AUSTRALIA
+ Educated in Toowoomba, QLD.
+ Attained Associate Diploma Electrical Engineering.
+ Held student pilots licence - helicopter and fixed hours.
+ Holds Amateur Radio licence.
+ Dick Smith Electronics - salesperson to store manager
+ Worked MIR on a commodore C64 and packet radio
+ Worked International Space Station on packet radio.
+ Built satellite robot using Basic Stamp. (PCSAT)
+ Fed telemetry from satellites to internet servers.
+ Built 137 MHz Weather Satellite kit.
+ Programmed in PERL, VB6, BASIC, GWBASIC, VB4, PHP, MySQL, Assembly and C.
+ Scripted up GSM base stations. (Telstra)
+ Scripted Alarm reporting systems (Telstra)
+ Built LINUX DNS's, and web servers (Telstra/Home)
+ Programmed statistical and early warning systems (Telstra)
+ Built Quads, verticals, dishes, helix, eggbeater, lindenblad.
+ Passed signals on 10 GHz
+ Participated in community events with radio support (car rally/horse enduro)
+ Programmed PIC controllers - to interface with GPS, sensors and LCD's
+ Made a PIC send RadioTeleType (RTTY)
+ Sent SSTV, RTTY, PSK, FAX over VHF and HF
+ Active participant in Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS)
+ Telstra employee for ten years up to technical specialist - Transmission, Alarm reporting, GSM/CDMA, SMS, Message Bank, MEMO.
+ Built and tested optical multiplexers (8/155 Mb).
+ Trained by Telstra, CISCO, Ericsson, Nortel, HP, Protocomm, Airservices Australia.
+ Designed and coded event tracking databases for use in large corporation (PHP/MySQL on LINUX)
+ Added email and SMS notification systems.
+ Compile and test APRS on LINUX (XASTIR).
+ Programmed remote control on LINUX using a relay card on the parallel port
+ Scripted a doppler tracking system for International Space Station.
+ Scripted and tested antenna rotator control under LINUX.
+ Built and tested VHF / UHF tracking systems.
+ Design and manufacture of PCB (Protel and pre-treated boards)
+ Made a GSM / GPS tracking system.
+ Built RF pre-amps to boost satellite signals.
+ Downloaded signals from ham sats using broadcast technology.
+ Experiments with wifi on 2.4 GHz.
+ Has a keen interest in ADS-B.
+ Has interfaced to GSM modems for remote work.
+ Built and flown radio control aircraft.
+ Wrote a comms package in visual basic 6.
+ Built and tested a doppler radio direction finding system.
+ Interfaced several systems to google earth.
+ Has a keen interest in aviation history. (nav systems)
+ Grandfather was Air Traffic Control, RAAF PILOT and Jackaroo.
+ Father is Army/Civil pilot (instructor,check and test).
+ Dabbles with photography - Canon 350D.
+ Active participant in APRS and ADS-B discussion groups.
+ Currently training with Airservices Australia in RADAR, DME, NDB,VOR, ILS, Comms, Satellites, ASMGCS, and ADS-B.
PERL

perl asterix simulator to UDP

UDP fork receiver

SBS-1 data into MySQL

MySQL tidy up program

SMPP send

SMTP send

GPS NMEA parser

APRS server parser

Create a MySQL table

Com port send and receive

PERL GD Graphics

Convert Co-ordinates

Disk size monitor

Process monitor

Statistics scripts

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

TCP fork receiver

Parrallel port control (relay boards)

Ping tester

POP testing

Antenna positioning from satellite tracking

Radio control from satellite tracking

Satellite pass predicting

Satellite tracking into UI-VIEW (APRS)

SBS-1 coverage generator

SBS-1 into XASTIR (LINUX APRS)

Telnet conenctions

Create google KML

APRS extract weather

APRS extract satellite data messages

Oracle conenctions

MySQL connections

Talking weather

findu.com extract (APRS)