User:Kharker

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This user has significantly contributed to 1 featured article.

This user is an orienteer, and very seldom gets lost.

This user has an amateur radio license.

This user enjoys bicycling.

This user drinks wine.

Contents 1 Amateur radio 2 Geography 3 The Harker name 4 Other interests

[edit] Amateur radio

Most of my contributions have been in articles related to amateur radio. I am the current principle author of several articles, including Amateur Radio Direction Finding, Contesting, High Speed Telegraphy, and Radiosport. The article on Amateur Radio Direction Finding was approved as a Wikipedia Featured Article in January, 2006. I have also created, or worked on, several other related articles, such as the article on the amateur radio license, the amateur radio operator, and the amateur radio station. I probably should contribute more to the development of the main amateur radio article, but it's such a daunting project with the shape it's in now.

[edit] Geography

I also enjoy contributing to articles on Texas geography. While none of my contributions have really been in-depth, I've improved the basic information contained in several articles, and contributed photos under GFDL taken during my travels. I created the articles on most of the reservoirs in south, central, and west Texas, I created or improved the articles on the barrier islands of the Texas Gulf coast, and I have added to the articles about Big Bend and the Chisos Mountains.

[edit] The Harker name

I have taken an interest in documenting places and people with the Harker name. There are not very many of them. As far as I know, I am not related to the namesakes for these places, but finding that out has been one of the reasons I took an interest in them in the first place:

Water Features Cam Harker Spring (West Virginia) Harker Creek (Utah) Harker Creek (Wisconsin) Harker Lake (North Dakota) Harker Park Lake (Colorado) Harker Run (West Virginia) Harker's Run (Ohio) Upper Harker Lake (North Dakota)

Land Features Harkers Canyon (Salt Lake County, Utah) Harkers Canyon (Tooele County, Utah) Harker Canyon (Tooele County, Utah) Harker Canyon (Washington)

Inhabited Places Harker, Florida Harker Heights, Texas Harkers Island, North Carolina

Historic Forts Fort Harker (Alabama) Fort Harker (Kansas)

[edit] Other interests

Some other articles I have contibuted to include articles on orienteering. I have been an active orienteer for about six years. I have been a transportation cyclist for most of the past fifteen years, but I hesitate to get involved in editing the cycling-related articles on Wikipedia - so many of them are written from an advocate's point of view that it will be difficult for the brave soul who decides to try to improve them. I am also a œnophile, but I do not really feel expert enough to contribute much to the articles on Wikipedia about wine.