Patsy
Don (ion) and Robert (dekota)
This is Robert (dekota), our son, at our place in Austin, Texas before we moved back to the Dallas area
A map of Cumbria, the lakes, in Northern England...
This is where we like to go........
So Hello to all our friends on the net...We live in the The Colony, Texas, in the USA, just north of Dallas. Below are a few interesting links that we like. Patsy and Don are also in to ham radio and talk to people all over the world.
Patsy used to work in insurance, and has quite a few years in that field. Don has been into semiconductor materials characterization for a long time (electron microscopes and stuff) and left Advanced Micro Devices in Austin in 1997 to work on other projects. At AMD Don established their semiconductor materials characterization facilities, the Process Characterization and Analysis Laboratories (electron microscopes and other interesting scientific stuff). They make the K6 chip in Austin, in Fab 25 where the lab is located. We moved in August, 1997, back to the Dallas area after five years in Austin to work on some new projects on our own. As of August 5, 2001, Don will be working for International Sematech, Austin, Texas as manager of their Materials Lab. So its back to Austin! Patsy is into some art projects too. Robert works in security and is completing college in electrical engineering. He has returned to school recently at Collin County Community College in Plano, Texas. Robert is going to stick around here in The Colony. So we now have two locations, The Colony and Austin.
Another part of our lives is amateur radio, as I said above...Patsy
is KA5GPM and
Don is WA5FQV.
These are our call signs. We operate on the bands 80 - 10 meters, 2 meters
and 220 MHz. using cw, ssb and digital radio techniques. We have a 60'
tower in the back yard (the neighbors love it!). With ham radio you can
talk to people all over the world....just like irc, but harder to do :)
Amateur radio is lots of fun and can take up a lot of time and some money
to get into. You can even build your own radio gear if you have the time
and want to get into it that deeply.
Amateur Radio Operators Provide Emergency
Service
We do like to travel and northern England, Scotland and Ireland are among the places that we have explored and like to go. The English lakes, as shown in the map above, are a great place to explore. Lakes, towns and the hills of Cumbria are all unmatched anywhere else in the world. The last time we were in Cumbria, we found an old Roman fort on a hill way out in the country in the hills that was very interesting. We will be adding more links showing pictures of England, Scotland and Ireland.
We are into family history, coins, travel, camping and other stuff also.
We spend time on #scotland on irc at times. Have a nice Day! This page
is under construction, so we will be adding more to it as time goes on.
Our two Birds Blue and Davie
See our Vacation Pictures from Scotland and North England
Vacation Pictures from 1995 (this is old stuff now)
Some More Pictures and A Map of Scotland...
Science Stuff...
Here's an interesting electron microscope image...
Here is a Link to some Texas VHF/UHF Amateur Radio Repeater List:
