Hi! I am Phil Karn, KA9Q. Welcome to my personal home page!

I can be contacted by email at karn (at) ka9q.net. I am also on all of the major IM services:

  • Skype: philkarn
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  • AIM: philkarn
  • Jabber: karn@jabber.org
  • ICQ: 429242134

    Because of persistent spamming and 419 scamming I've been forced to restrict incoming access on Skype, ICQ and Yahoo Chat to those already on my contact lists. The other services are still open to everyone. I'd be happy to chat on any service on request.

    We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do. [....] As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake. --President Barack Obama, January 20, 2009

    After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts, and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current [George W Bush] administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account. -- Major General Anthony Taguba, US Army (ret)

    [Our 8-year national nightmare is finally over. Now we can finally begin to repair the worldwide damage wreaked by former President George W. Bush, a job that will probably take decades.]

    Anybody want to know who invented the term "enhanced interrogation"? Click here.

    My Photos of the F-A/18 crash that occurred in the University City area of San Diego CA on December 8, 2008. The crash site is about 870 meters due west of our house.

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    Last updated: 22 May 2009