About

About Desert Radio Labs

I’m Lonnie, N5DRG, a desert ham in Arizona, software developer, and habitual tinkerer.

Desert Radio Labs is my personal technical workbench on the web. Ham radio is the center of gravity, with electronics, RF experiments, fabrication, 3D printing, software, and whatever useful detours happen to collect around it.

This is not a company or a publication with a content calendar. I write things down when there is something worth preserving: a build that worked, a measurement that taught me something, a mistake I would rather not repeat, or a small discovery that might save somebody else a little time.

What shows up here

Notes are the loose pages from the bench: observations, experiments, links, lessons, and shorter technical write-ups. Workbench pages are the deeper builds, where parts, measurements, construction details, files, revisions, and lessons can stay together.

Some projects will grow over time. Others may remain snapshots of what I knew when I wrote them. When something changes enough to deserve a new write-up, I would rather preserve the old trail than quietly rewrite history.

Why keep any of this?

The first audience is future me. If I can come back six months later and understand what I built, why I chose it, and what I would change next time, the page has already earned its keep.

If the same notes help someone else learn something, laugh at a familiar mistake, or avoid making one of their own, even better.