displayage (1968, 09, 08, "years", 0, "rounddown")displayage (1974, 01, 02, "years", 0, "rounddown")displayage (2005, 06, 15, "years", 0, "rounddown")displayage (2005, 03, 21, "days", 0, "rounddown")Hello, my name is Derek and I am 39. I live with my partner John (34) and Prince the cat (2) in our 2001 Winnebago Ultimate Advantage 40J motor home while we travel from computer consulting job to job. We have been full timer's for over 3 year. I program Lotus Notes/Domino applications and web sites. We are currently in St. Louis, MO while I work for an international soy ingredients supplier. My interests include geeky computer stuff, programming, 8-tracks, ham radio, eating chicken, retro computing and playing computer games.

My ham shack is in my motor home.  I use the following radios:

Kenwood TH-D7a(g) hand held
Yaesu 857-D with matching screwdriver antenna
Yaesu 897-D with vertical whip antenna.

I mostly operate on 2, 20 and 40.  Mostly Phone and PSK-31.

I'm starting to participate in contests.