President & Co-founder · Pima Community College
Building a place to learn radio by doing.
Through the Pima Amateur Radio Club, I help create opportunities for students to work directly with radio, electronics, communications systems, and one another.
Pima Amateur Radio Club
I was one of two students who founded the Pima Amateur Radio Club. I began as vice president and became president when the other student founder moved out of state. In that role, I work with fellow students and faculty advisors to strengthen the club, organize meetings and events, and create a welcoming place for people who want to explore amateur radio.
A major focus is completing a fully operational amateur radio station—our ham shack—at Pima's Northwest Campus. The station gives students a permanent setting for hands-on learning, equipment demonstrations, communication practice, and future club activities.
The work combines organization and technical problem-solving: coordinating people, planning events, helping make decisions about the station, and turning student interest into opportunities to participate.
What I contribute
- Founding
- One of two students who established the Pima Amateur Radio Club
- Leadership
- Began as vice president and became president when the other student founder moved out of state
- Ham shack
- Support completion of a fully operational amateur radio station at Pima's Northwest Campus
- Student events
- Organize meetings, activities, and opportunities for practical learning
- Collaboration
- Work with faculty advisors and students to coordinate decisions and club activities
- Club growth
- Help more students discover radio, electronics, and communications
- Call sign
- K7PCC
Why amateur radio
Systems become real when people operate them together.
Amateur radio brings together electronics, software, antennas, propagation, networking, procedure, and community. It is an unusually complete environment for learning how technical systems behave outside a textbook.
The club also reflects the kind of engineering culture I value: people with different levels of experience sharing knowledge, experimenting carefully, and building something useful together.