John DeGood's Boring Homepage

About Me

• I am a member of the engineering staff at the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories in Cherry Hill, NJ.
• I belong to the ACM and am webmaster and past ACM Chair of the Princeton joint ACM/IEEE-CS chapter.
• I am Secretary and webmaster of the David Sarnoff Radio Club, a life member of the ARRL, a member of the FISTS CW Club, and a member of the New Jersey QRP Club.
• I am Treasurer and webmaster of the Pinelands Orchid Society.
• I am not a vegetarian because I love animals. I am a vegetarian because I hate vegetables.

Some of My Web Publications and Presentations

• The Pinelands Orchid Society home page.
• The joint Princeton ACM / IEEE Computer Society Professional Chapters home page.
• The David Sarnoff Radio Club home page.
• The New Jersey QRP Club home page.
• A description of the amateur radio 6-band HF coaxial-cable trap dipole antenna I constructed in my attic.
• A vegan and gluten-free peanut butter oatmeal cookie recipe I developed.
• Amateur radio log book sheets formatted for 8.5 x 11 inch paper with 3-hole punch.
  • Portrait layout similar to the older ARRL spiral log book, 25 contacts per page.
  • Landscape layout similar to the newer ARRL spiral log book, 20 contacts per page.
• Reference charts for 2-octave major and minor scales and arpeggios for piano.
  • 1-page version.
  • 2-page version.
• Talks I presented at the Trenton Computer Festival.
  • TCF 2000 presentation PSK31, MT63, and Hellschreiber
  • TCF 2001 presentation PSK31, MFSK16, MT63, and Hellschreiber
  • TCF 2002 presentation Introduction to QRSS
  • TCF 2003 presentation Digital Voice in Amateur Radio
  • TCF 2006 presentation Introduction to Embedded USB Development
  • TCF 2007 presentation Digital Shortwave Broadcasting
  • TCF 2009 presentation US Digital Television Transition
  • TCF 2009 presentation Over-the-Air Television Antennas
  • TCF 2010 presentation Chumby Widget Development
  • TCF 2010 presentation BlackBerry Smartphone Application Development
• Other amateur radio presentations.
  • DSRC January 2008 presentation HF Antennas for Portable Use
  • DSRC June 2008 presentation WSPR (Weak Signal Propagation Reporter) Introduction
  • DSRC February 2009 presentation US Digital Television Transition
• A talk on the Y2K Problem I presented to several PC User Groups in New Jersey in 1999.
• Cateye Enduro 2 / Mity 3 Cyclocomputer Owner Manual
• Cateye Velo 2 Cyclocomputer Owner Manual

A Few of my Hobbies:

• Practicing and teaching Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga at Anjali Power Yoga. I studied under Johnna Smith and am an RYT 200.
• Amateur Radio operating CW and digital modes as Extra Class NU3E.
• Growing orchids.
• Bicycle touring on a 1986 Cannondale SR400.
• Taking adult piano lessons and tuning and playing my Yamaha C2 grand.
• Pilates: mat, small apparatus, and reformer.

A Few of my Bookmarks:

• Plan 9 from Bell Labs -- an operating system for distributed computing
• Trenton Computer Festival the world's longest running personal computer show

A Few Photos of the DeGood Gang

My older son Scott and I at the Trenton Computer Festival speaker registration table, May 2000.

My spouse Suzanna.

My younger son Eric at age 4 1/2.