{"id":59,"date":"2015-08-24T00:39:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T03:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/va1der.ca\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2016-07-22T19:27:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T22:27:37","slug":"the-va1der-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/va1der.ca\/index.php\/the-va1der-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The VA1DER Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

The VA1DER Project – or how I go from wanting<\/em> to be an amateur radio operator for most of my life to actually being<\/em> one. \u00a0 I had been spinning my wheels… trying to do too many things at once and not really accomplishing much… until, as I described in my blog post,<\/a> I came to the realization that, as someone with project management experience, I should apply the same principles I used in managing large projects for other people to my own.<\/p>\n

There is too much to being an amateur radio operator for any one project to encompass.\u00a0 Or, rather, there is unless it is properly managed and divided into bite-sized chunks. The VA1DER Project is the, thus, the umbrella project for all my amateur radio activities.\u00a0 I envision this as a hierarchy of projects with this one as the overarching supreme parent.\u00a0 The base class, if you will.\u00a0 This project will spawn off child projects for all the main aspects I intend to pursue, and those will spawn off their own child projects as required.<\/p>\n

To properly focus the project, it needs a mission statement:<\/p>\n

Mission:<\/h2>\n
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Explore the science and technology of radio and communications with special regard to those technologies offering the widest range and scope of communications with the lowest requirement for intermediate infrastructure with the intention to use this technology to:<\/p>\n