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This is a makeup of Assignment 2 of the HTML class, BUSW534, that I am taking at Canada College in Redwood City, CA. Our instructions were to develop a new home page. Actually, it's a sub-home page, as the really first page points to the various assignments. We were to use Case 4, in Tutorial 2 of our text, Creating Web Pages with HTML 2nd Edition by Patrick Carey as a guide. That problem indicated that the page should include information about me and my interests, and that I could create a separate page devoted entirely to one of my favorite hobbies. It was to include the following elements:
The assignment consists of this page, and a page of Internet links of interest to six meter operators. The link page may be accessed by clicking on the right arrow near the top of the page. The left arrow will return you to the page that is home for all my assignments.
Neither you nor I have the time or patience to plow through an autobiography that starts at the beginning. Suffice to say, I have been a radio amateur for 50 years, received my MSEE from Utah State University in 1960, and have been involved professionally with radio propagation research since 1957. That career ended two years ago as a result of cutbacks in government funding and my failure to keep up with the latest computer languages, a situation I am now correcting by taking classes such as this one.
My second love (next to amateur radio) is computers. I wrote my first computer program in 1960 at the National Bureau of Standards in Boulder, CO while I was working for Brad Bean in the Radio Meteorology Section. We programmed in machine language. The input was a paper tape punched by a Flexowriter. The output was also a paper tape which was read by the same Flexowriter. My next opportunity to program was at Stanford University where I learned FORTRAN in 1962. I did not get a home computer, however, until 1984, when I bought a Sanyo MBC-550. Frustration with poor documentation and lack of support led to the formation of a user's group for which I was newsletter editor, publisher, and leader through 1998.
was founded by Harry Schools, K3HS, in 1989. It is dedicated to the understanding and utilization of long distance (DX) propagation in the 6-meter amateur band. I am its current editor and publisher.
assign2m.html 3/10/01Victor Frank