From bounce-tapr-bb-818@lists.tapr.org Sat Feb 10 19:14:01 2001 Received: from lists.tapr.org (lists.tapr.org [204.17.217.24]) by tapr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.13) with SMTP id TAA28126 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 19:13:54 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 20:10:33 -0500 From: John Ackermann N8UR To: "TAPR Announcement List" cc: tapr-bb@lists.tapr.org, aprssig@lists.tapr.org, netsig@lists.tapr.org, bbssig@lists.tapr.org, picsig@lists.tapr.org, hfsig@lists.tapr.org, tacgps@lists.tapr.org, tapr-org@lists.tapr.org, htaprs@lists.tapr.org Subject: [tapr-bb] TAPR Press Release Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: List-Software: Lyris Server version 3.0 List-Subscribe: List-Owner: X-List-Host: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Reply-To: "TAPR Announcement List" X-Message-Id: <2583289652.981835833@[192.168.1.15]> Sender: bounce-tapr-bb-818@lists.tapr.org Precedence: bulk FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 10, 2001 TAPR APPOINTS NEW DIRECTORS, SECRETARY Steve Stroh, N8GNJ, and Byon Garribrant, N6BG, have been appointed to the TAPR Board of Directors, and Guy Story, KC5GOI, has been appointed the organization's Secretary. Steve Stroh is a long time member of TAPR. He lives in Woodinville, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, where he is a member of the Puget Sound Amateur Radio TCP/IP Group (also known as WetNET, the Washington Experimenter's TCP/IP Group) and MicroHAMs, the Microsoft Amateur Radio Club. Steve's major interests in Amateur Radio are digital modes and advanced wireless networking. Steve has been the manager of TAPR's "NetSig" special interest group for several years, and has also been active in TAPR's spread spectrum SIG. Steve was recently named Digital Editor for CQ Amateur Radio Magazine and writes CQ's monthly Digital Wireless column. Professionally, he is a full-time Independent Technology Writer, focusing on Broadband Wireless Internet Access. Steve will fill the remaining Board term of Greg Jones, WD5IVD, who previously announced his desire to resign from his TAPR offices after many years of service. Byon Garribrant has been active in packet radio and transmitter hunting since he was licensed in 1990. He served as the Digital Communications Officer for Orange County RACES for 5 years, maintaining the group's packet BBS, and organizing digital communication exercises using packet message-passing software he created. In 1998, Byon began actively working with TAPR as a member of the PIC-E design team, and published the firmware used in the PIC-E. He has also given presentations at the last three Digital Communication Conferences on PIC programming. Byon has created several PIC-based amateur radio devices, including the GST-1 and GST-2, which allow GPSs to be used with APRS, the TinyTrak, an inexpensive TNC replacement for an APRS tracker, and PicCon, a transmitter controller for T-Hunting. He sells these devices as kits from his home business, Byonics. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, with his wife, Lara, KD6AYO, and three children and works as a computer game programmer for Westwood Studios. Byon will fill the remaining Board term of Barry McLarnon, VE3JF, who served TAPR as a Director and volunteer for many years. TAPR will miss Barry's technical knowledge and true ham spirit. Guy Story was first licensed in 1994 and has been an active packet radio user since his first day as a ham. He operated a TCP/IP station using JNOS before becoming active in APRS in early 1997, when he also joined TAPR. As a TAPR member, he has been actively involved in the organization's APRS and spread spectrum activities. Guy is also the APRS Chairman and repeater control operator for the Denton County Amateur Radio Association and is an assistant emergency coordinator for Denton County ARES. Guy lives in Denton, Texas and is an Electronics Technician in the area of EMC/EMI compliance for Interphase Corporation in Dallas. Guy takes over as Secretary from Bob Hansen, N2GDE, who continues as a Director and as Editor of the Packet Status Register, TAPR's quarterly journal. About TAPR TAPR (officially, Tucson Amateur Packet Radio, Inc.) is a non-profit research and development corporation dedicated to advancing amateur radio through digital technology. It focuses on development of hardware and software tools that enable ham radio operators to explore leading edge technologies. Despite its name, TAPR is an international organization with over 2000 members worldwide. Contact information: Telephone: (940) 383-0000 Email: tapr@tapr.org Web: http://www.tapr.org --- You are currently subscribed to tapr-bb as: lyris.tapr-bb@tapr.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-tapr-bb-818W@lists.tapr.org