Hello and welcome to my home on the Web. My name is Jeff Davis and for the curious, KE9V is my amateur radio call sign that also serves as a short and unique domain name. I'm an electrical engineer nearly thirty winters at the coalface - a product of the 20th century who has found very little to like about the 21st. I live in Central Indiana with my wife and daughter. We also have three sons who have flown the coup. I write a lot and collect old books. I'm a skeptic who prefers black and white movies to new releases, red wine to white wine, and jeans to slacks. I hate the summer with the bugs and the heat. Give me a cool autumn evening and a glass of good wine and that's as close to heaven as I ever intend to get.

For many years there was a Wordpress blog right here, right where you're standing. I got tired of that and now am in the process of returning the site to being just a simple home page - a place to hang my hat online. The site is mostly validated HTML and intentionally light on graphics. I've gone back to crafting pages the same way I did in 1995, using Vim and a few other small tools to keep it neat and tidy. I have a considerable load of content that needs to be uploaded here, but it will take some time to get everything reformatted. I like to think that this is the last time that I will ever have to fiddle with this stuff so I'm in no particular hurry to get it done.

If you need to contact me my address is jeff (at) ke9v dot net. Grab my GPG public key while you're here. I support the widespread use of strong cryptography for privacy, and encourage you to use GPG encryption with this key when sending me messages. If your mail agent makes this difficult, perhaps you should consider switching to Mutt - a powerful MUA. You can find me on Freenode or you could follow me on Identi.ca the micro-blogging service based on Free Software where the hardcore geeks come out to play.

Words

I often write about Open Source software, personal technology, amateur radio, and growing older in these United States. What follows are the most recent of these and at some point I'll post a site map so you can easily find all of the content that's archived here.

Sounds

A few years ago I produced fifty episodes of an audio program that I called, Long Delayed Echoes that detailed the early history of amateur radio. I haven't produced another in that series in quite some time but earlier this year I got a notion to do something completely different. The idea was to produce a short story and release it in bite sized chunks. The result is Cornbread Road - a different kind of ham radio podcast. It's really an audio experiment, an episodic mystery in thirteen parts being released between the Solstice and the Equinox in 2010.

Deep in the Heartland a small group of ham radio enthusiasts enjoy an idyllic existence of wide open spaces, no antenna restrictions, low-noise levels, simple living, and good fellowship. But things aren't exactly what they seem on Cornbread Road...

Subscribe to the podcast feed: http://ke9v.net/podcast.xml

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