This website is a portfolio of most of my edited work: photography from around the world and an audio recording from Peru, my terrible resume, and some old posts about a DNS service I tried to setup while in a manic state. I suffer from a mental illness and epilepsy. I am an amateur radio operator who never will have the extroversion to get OTA. My callsign is K1VZX, hence the domain name, which is a pseudonym for my name.
I have some ambition soon to update the website with photos of Pittsburgh. I was a lot more active in photography back in Austin, but I still have some good glass and a nice and much smaller camera that I’ve even forgotten the model of. It’s an APS-C sensor mirrorless with approximately 30MP resolution, which although won’t be good for night photography, I don’t intend to do much of that, at least not yet. It’s still a bit too cool in Pittsburgh to wander around, and much harder to get around for me still.
Although my background is electrical engineering, I’m looking to up-shift in my career and looking into getting at least an electrician license in the City of Pittsburgh where I currently reside. While I was in my manic state, my mind kept calling Pittsburgh home, so home it has become. I have lived here longer than anywhere else since Austin, TX where I lived for 3 and 1/2 years approximately. This October (2026) will make 3 years and put me at the ripe age of 41, which is adequate, but doesn’t leave much time to correct my dismal financial situation from being legally disabled.
Below is a QSL card to my grandfather from K1AZX. If you’re Ed, I hope you enjoy a memory still available to you from years ago. Thanks for reading this, and 73s to you, wherever you may be.
Source: Salem State Archives (license)
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