Tomas David Hood

I am the space weather and radio propagation editor for the CQ Amateur Radio Magazine, CQ VHF Communications Quarterly, and Popular Communications Magazine.  I study the sun-earth connection and how it influences radio communications, especially shortwave radio propagation.  I often create videos and other media regarding space weather, radio propagation, and related topics and news.

I am an amateur (ham) radio communicator, a shortwave radio listener (known as an SWL-er), and I enjoy Morse code (using a mode known as "CW"), JT65A, Olivia (both are digital communications modes using very low power on shortwave radio), and sometimes voice communications. 

Most of my life, I have been involved in computer sciences, and telecommunications.  Software engineering, hardware and networking, and systems engineering have all been part of my job at one time or another.  I've been a radio DJ, an emergency communications director, dispatcher, US Army communications Signal Corps member, and have filled a variety of other capacities in communications. 

I love cats, the mountains, rivers and lakes. I love my wife, my family, and God, as well as my country. I love guitar, music, and really great poetry. When I find a great book, I get lost in it, barely putting the book down until I've read the entire treasure from front to back.  I also love to travel, to meet people, experience cultures, and experience other perspectives.

Explore my social presence to find out more about me.  I'm very active on Twitter, somewhat active on Facebook, and newly active on Google+.  Of course, my videos are a creative outlet, freely available on YouTube.

For those Amateur Radio Operators (and I have made 'amateur radio operators' into a proper name/noun on purpose) on Echolink, my node number (like a phone number) is 38083; if I am available, you can find me there for a live chat.