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| Personal background |
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Hi!
My name is Jim Walls and I live in Glendora, Calif. (about 30 kilometers
east of Los Angeles). I am 61 years old and after working for a large
electric utility for 24 years, I changed jobs to doing the same function
but now for a local government. My job function is running a regional
trunked radio system.
I've been a computer geek for many years and have played with various unix
computers, a couple of Amigas, and DOS and later Windows based PCs. There
are now 5 computers at home and my office at work has 5 computers with a
total of 11 monitors - is that enough of a geek?
I've been an amateur radio operator for over 40 years with the callsign of
K6CCC. I'm a member of the AMSAT team which is a international group of
amateur radio operators that have built and operate via amateur built
satellites.
More information about AMSAT can be reached at their web site at
http://www.amsat.org.
You can find more about me from my web site at:
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/k6ccc/
I joined SETI@Home on 4 February 2002. For a couple years, I had several
dozen computers that are all using idle time to crunch Seti workunits.
Unlike many high performers, none of the computers I am using are left on
solely for S@H - they are all on for other purposes and crunch Seti
workunits only during idle times. However after my job change, I only have
about a dozen computers that are running SETI@Home.
The photo shows me with a satellite communication trailer that I helped set
up after the Alaska Airlines flight 261 crash off the California coast in
February 2001 for the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services.
I have been a communications volunteer for OES since the early 1990's. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I have to believe that there are other life forms out there
somewhere. I hope that we will be able to find them one of
these days. Will the Seti@Home project find them? Maybe,
and maybe not. |
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