Bdale Garbee, KB0G
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-Welcome to my "new" personal home page.
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After retiring at the end of August, 2012, from my long-held position as
[HP](http://hp.com) Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist... I worked
part-time for [Samsung](http://samsung.com) as Senior Adviser to the Open
My "spare nanoseconds" are mostly consumed playing with
[rockets](http://gag.com/rockets), which includes managing
[Altus Metrum, LLC](http://altusmetrum.org) with business partner
-[Keith Packard](http://keithp.org).
+[Keith Packard](http://keithp.org). I hold a "Level 3 certification" and am
+a member of both the [National Association of Rocketry](http://nar.org)
+and the [Tripoli Rocketry Association](http://tripoli.org). My personal
+confirmed flight altitude record is 32,635 feet above ground, my highest
+recorded acceleration is 86 g, the heaviest project I ever built weighed 168
+pounds on the launch rail, and I've flown a rocket I designed and built
+that reached Mach 3.21. I served on the committee that defined the
+[Tripoli Mentoring Program](http://www.tripoli.org/TMP), and am
+immensely proud that my son aced the test to become one of the earliest TMP
+participants.
I miss the early days of the web, when it was mostly informative text...
but if you're really curious, there are some pictures of me on my
[Pikes Peak FM Association](http://www.ppfma.org), past board member
of the [Pikes Peak Radio Amateur Association](http://ppraa.org),
and a member of the
-[ARRL](http://www.arrl.org).
+[ARRL](http://www.arrl.org) and [QCWA](https://qcwa.org).
Perhaps my best-known early contribution to the hobby was the silly little
mail program I wrote for KA9Q's NOS networking software, called
[BM](ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/hamradio/packet/tcpip/mailers),
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