Radio Systems and Exploration

Radio systems are interesting to me for both personal and technical reasons.

My grandparents met on ham radio in the 1940s, and part of my interest in getting licensed was simply to keep that story alive. Beyond that, communication over distance has always fascinated me. I was using the internet in the 1990s, and communication infrastructure has become a major part of how I work and think about the world.

What draws me to radio is that it makes communication tangible. It turns invisible infrastructure into something you can study, configure, test, and rely on under real constraints. I am especially interested in alternative and emergency systems because they reveal what still works when the default assumptions break.

That is part of why things like AT&T long lines, phone phreaking culture, 2600 magazine, LoRa, ham radio, RC systems, Meshtastic, and APRS all catch my attention. They sit at the intersection of communication, resilience, experimentation, and exploration.

This area also connects naturally to my interest in homelab and infrastructure because both involve understanding how systems behave, where they fail, and how they can be made more capable and more independent.