[HamGateNY] Introductions (Joe, NE2Z)

[Joe Cupano]

Hello,

My name is Joe Cupano, NE2Z <https://www.qrz.com/lookup/ne2z> and I live
in Mountainville (Orange County) New York -- Grid FN21XJ.
Past Secretary UNYREPCO <http://www.unyrepco.org/>, Past Vice President
nd current Director OCARC <http://ocarcny.org/>.

My first foray into digital was in 1981 doing AFSK with a Sinclair ZX81
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81>that I built using the load/save
cassette ports
to "connect" with another Amateur Radio owning similar kit over 2 Meters
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-meter_band>. I missed the "heydey" of
packet radio
after that cause I was busy sowing my wild oats.

After settling down with both wife and career in technology, in the
naught years I started getting back  into digital communications.
Around that time a friendof mine, John Champa K8OCL
<http://www.arrl.org/news/john-champa-k8ocl-sk>, asked me to join a ARRL
<http://www.arrl.org/> Technology Task Force on High-Speed Multimedia
radio
<http://www.arrl.org/files/file/About%20ARRL/Committee%20Reports/2006/July/BOD06-2%20CTO%20Annex%20C%20rev2.pdf>
investigating the next generation in digital communications within
Amateur Radio. Happy to see over the years since that task force
disbanded developments in mesh networking
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking> born from it.

Since then I have been spending the time bridging the worlds of makers,
hackers, and.Over the past decade I have supported
the biennial Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE)
<https://hope.net/> conference whether it be running aspecial event
station <https://cupano.com/wordpress/index.html%3Fp=158.html> or
conducting workshops <https://cupano.com/wordpress/hopexii-workshop/>.
I am a member of HVDN <http://notebook.hvdn.org/> and currently lead the
development of a RF network project called HASviolet
<https://github.com/hudsonvalleydigitalnetwork/hasviolet> available on
RPi and ESP32
<https://github.com/hudsonvalleydigitalnetwork/hasviolet-duck>.

73,

- Joe, NE2Z





Charles J. Hargrove:
> Since the merger of the WNYPG mailing list into the HamGateNY list, we
> now have 87 members (some who were on both lists).  This would be a great
> opportunity to introduce yourselves.  Give us your callsign, what area of
> NY State (or outside of it), what kind of packet system you are
> running, etc.
> Let's use this list as a request-for-help and sharing of
> knowledge/projects.
>
> I will start:
> - N2NOV
> - Staten Island, NYC
> - EmComm lead for ARES/RACES during 9/11, 2003 Blackout, etc
> - Founder/President of NYC-ARECS (http://www.nyc-arecs.org)
> - running JNOS system since 1998 starting on DOS and now Linux
> - NY State 44Net/AMPR.org coordinator
> - IT field since 1989 (databases, networking, help desk, web hosting)
> - ran for Congress as a write-in twice
> (http://www.HargroveForCongress.us)
> - Secretary of the Staten Island Libertarian Party
>

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