An Amateur Radio - Flamenco Survey

Amateur Radio

I teach flamenco guitar and I am a performing musician, as well. Click the link below to visit my flamenco website.

I once thought that I was the only amateur radio operator to be a flamenco guitarist. It seems that I am wrong, and there just might be quite a few flamenco aficionado/ham radio aficionados out there.

Now the interesting thing for me is that I first met Mike Hancock N5LHM, my collegue on the radio telescope project, through flamenco. He studies flamenco guitar and is a classical guitar aficionado as well. Another ham, Henry Calk WB5IIB, also came to me for flamenco lessons. Then there is Mike Surrency, a former ham and retired NASA engineer, who has had a lifelong passion with the classical and flamenco guitar. His "retirement" now consists of building excellent classical and flamenco guitars. Still another student of mine is a design engineer for a major computer corporation. His father-in-law is a ham, and he himself quite knowledgable about ham topics. Maybe 90% of my guitar students are involved in some form of science or engineering. Now this, to me, is extraordinary. So many hams and /or enginners in Houston who are also flamenco aficionados would seem to be a rare ocurrance, but perhaps not. Maybe there is regularity here!

So I'm conducting a very informal survey. If you are reading this far, then you are probably a ham with an interest in flamenco. Let me hear from you.