Diana Eng KC2UHB

Diana Eng KC2UHB joins ARRL Public Relations Committee

Ham Radio Hacker Diana Eng KC2UHB, well known for her Amateur Radio articles and videos for MAKE magazine, is to join the ARRL Public Relations Committee.

Senior Editor of MAKE magazine Phil Torrone has described her as a Fashion nerd, hacker, maker, ham radio ambassador. She is one of those people who inspire us all to hack, mod, and learn new skills.

On her site she writes:

I have just been asked to join the ARRL Public Relations Committee. I am very excited to join because I want to help connect the maker/hacker community to the ham community. It’s an exciting time because there is a huge growth in the maker/hacker community. It’s hip to tinker. Ham radio operators were the original makers and hackers.

And I feel like makers and hackers could learn a lot from an organization where members are building their own portable devices that can send messages or remote control other devices around the world and through outer space.

I love maker kits from Makershed, Adafruit, and Ramsey. But I just got an Elecraft K2. And this is going to be the most challenging kit I have yet to build. When it is complete, I will have built something that can communicate around the world without using the internet, or cell phone networks.
It will communicate using what I myself have built.

I also have plans to make something that can bounce signals off of the moon. A lot of other amateur radio operators have done this too. So I will follow documentation from the amateur radio community online. Ham radio has really taken my making to the next level. I hope it will do the same for the maker/hacker community.

The Lifehacker site carries an article about Diana written by the Senior Editor of MAKE magazine Phil Torrone - read it at
http://lifehacker.com/5477290/

Diana Eng KC2UHB website
http://fashionnerd.com/

Making the Future: What DIY Culture is Telling Us About Tomorrow
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/december2009/
making_the_future.htm

BBC video - Meet the gadget hackers - London Hackspace
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/june2009/
diy_gadgetry.htm

Ham radio is one of the oldest and most popular DIY hobby activities around the world.
Find out more at:

USA - http://wedothatradio.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/
what-is-ham-radio/

UK - http://www.rsgb.org/getlicence/