Both Anamaria and I are licensed amateur radio operators.
Anamaria holds a Technician class license (KE6IOE) and operates mostly VHF mobile with a Yaesu FT-2200R in her vehicle. I (Mike) am an Amateur Extra class operator (AD6IL). Most of the time I spend on the radio is during my 6-hour round-trip commute that I do twice a week from El Dorado Hills, CA to Belmont, CA. I have a Yaesu FT-100 in the car and operate VHF on the 145.370 (WT6G) and 147.195 (N6ICW) repeaters as well as 144.200 (USB). I also get on HF regularly with a High Sierra HS-1500 screwdriver antenna on the car. Here are more details on ham radio projects and activities.
I began taking Karate lessons at T. Kanes Karate in Fremont, CA.
It is something I've wanted to do for a long time and am really enjoying.
They teach a combination of Karate, Tai Kwon Do, Kung Fu, and Kickboxing.
I'm currently only able to go twice a week but I'm glad to have been able to keep it up. I thought it might be interesting to keep track of when I get my various belts. Unfortunately I didn't keep any records before November 2001.
| Date | Progress |
|---|---|
| Jun 9, 2002 | 2nd Stripe - Adv. Purple Belt |
| Feb 21, 2002 | 4th Stripe - Purple Belt |
| Feb 2, 2002 | 3rd Stripe - Purple Belt |
| Jan 3, 2002 | 2nd Stripe - Purple Belt |
| Dec 27, 2001 | 1st Stripe - Purple Belt |
| Nov 29, 2001 | Received Purple Belt |
| Nov 20, 2001 | Tested for Purple Belt |
| Nov 8, 2001 | 4th Stripe - Orange Belt |
| Feb 8, 2001 | Tested for Yellow Belt? |
| Nov 14, 2000 | Began Training |
I try to write down new techniques as I learn them since I sometimes forget immediately after my lesson and find myself unable to practice a new technique all week. My immediate goal was to create content for my PalmPilot. However, as with other notes I've wanted to put on my Palm, I found that I would create content twice...once as a normal document for my reference, and another for my Palm. HTML seemed to be a natural solution to use for both so I started looking for something that would let me view HTML files on the Palm. I found iSilo which seems to work pretty well. Of course you have to convert the HTML to a pdb format but it does work.
White - Purple Belt Techniques
Advance Purple - Green Belt Techniques
The files for the palm are here. First, you need the iSilo program if you don't have it.
iSilo Zip
White-Purple Palm reference
Adv Purple-Green Palm reference