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Personal Interests

I spent 36 years teaching biology at the high school level and am now retired. I enjoy the hobby of amateur radio and driving on 4-wheel drive trails in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado.

I received my amateur radio license in 1989. I have 2 sons who also have theirs; Todd, NØUTI , and Craig, NØUTH. Here in the Mulvane, KS, area I have the packet network nodes MLV07 on 145.07 mHz. I operate the NØKTA voice repeater on 443.55 mHz and the N0KTA voice repeater on 146.715 mHz here in Mulvane.

APRS has recently gained my attention and I have the wide area digi N0KTA near Mulvane and sponsor K0HAM-13 near Matfield Green. My home station N0KTA-2 is an Internet Gateway for APRS. I also have a home weather station hooked to APRS and a weather uplink site www.croftjohnson.net/wx.

Off-Roading

I have owned a 1976 Bronco since 1979 and my wife drives a 2005 Grand Cherokee Limited. We enjoy off-roading, especially on the trails in the San Juan Mountains in Colorado. My son, Todd, has a 1999 Jeep TJ that he built up for some heavy duty off-roading. We have been going to Lake City, Colorado, since 1980 and have experienced some great times off-roading in the San Juans.

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Current Projects

APRS is Automatic Position Reporting System. I'm enjoying building TinyTrak kits as part of an APRS traking system. With a TinyTrak and a GPS attached to your mobile radio, you can send your position to anyone that can monitor AX25 packets with the appropriate software. You can find the location of any active APRS station by accessing http://www.findu.com/ .