I joined the Forum in the middle of last year so I thought it was about time I tried to properly introduce myself.
I have been retired for nearly twenty years so I have reached my maturity, my family would say my second childhood! After a career spent intially teaching ground radar in the RAF and then installing and maintaining TV and radio transmitters for the ITA/IBA I found the conversion from hardware to software based engineering a fascinating but confusing process. I'm still confused most of the time!
I have great cause to be thankful to the Forum for all the valuable help I received when I was first Max'ed and I was trying to improve and understand my connection. I would not have the nice stable set up I have now without it. Thanks again to all concerned.
In retirement my main hobbies have been my PC and my boat. I have used the PC in my various roles with my boat club and my retirement association, using all the Office applications to keep accounts (Excel), databases (Access) and of course Word. I have also become familiar (nearly said adept!) with MS Publisher to produce Newsletters.
I sail my old Westerly in the Solent mostly and I have set up a chart plotter on an laptop using a GPS and a shareware program. This is hardly necessary in the Solent but it was a satisfying technical exercise. And a lot cheaper than buying a chart plotter.
Off to do some plumbing for my youngest daughter now - back to hardware engineering again!
Tony