KN4RQL · Amateur Radio & Technology

> amateur radio operator & technology tinkerer █

kn4rql@station:~$ cat about.txt

73 and welcome. I'm Bibby, callsign KN4RQL — a licensed amateur radio operator who spends an unreasonable amount of time where radio and computers overlap.

What got me here: the quiet magic of bouncing a signal off the ionosphere and having a stranger half a world away answer back, no infrastructure in between. That same itch — making things talk to each other — is what pulls me into homelabs, servers, and small electronics projects.

I'm also the staff advisor for the KSU Amateur Radio Club (W4KST) — helping students get licensed and on the air.

This little corner of the web is where the radio side and the technology side meet. The rest of me (the day job, the résumé, the projects) lives at bibby.foo.

kn4rql@station:~$ ls -la ./tech

📡 The Station

The radio bench. I work VHF/UHF — 2m and 70cm — chasing local repeaters and simplex contacts around grid EM73sw.

🖥️ Homelab

A self-hosted stack — services and containers I run for myself instead of renting from the cloud. If it can be hosted at home, it probably is.

⚙️ Projects

Code, electronics, and tinkering — from scripts that glue systems together to hardware that beeps when it shouldn't. It mostly lives on GitHub.

🔌 Radio + Computers

Where the two worlds collide: SDR for listening across the spectrum, and APRS for tracking and packet beaconing.

kn4rql@station:~$ ./contact.sh

Worked me on the air? Drop a note or send a card. Always happy to confirm a QSO.