Just occasionally we two of upper middle age feel that a peer should be invited to provide some pics taken over his career. And what a career it has been...indeed, is. Te'Deus or Ted for short has enjoyed a smorgasbord of a career, ranging from long term ocean going ship's Radio Officer using all communication gear from Morse Code and flag semaphore, maybe even encrypted smoke signals right through to current day SatComm gear. Ted spent decades at AWA, a much diversified communications giant, which was brought down by some seriously puzzling corporate FourX decisions. AWA, Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Ltd was so big in OZ that it even touched your Inmates' manufacturing interests. Te'Deus is very involved with AWA Old Boys on PA systems and keeps in touch with his radio mates by.....what else but direct radio??.

Te'Deus has very many interests that would make a grown man drop. He is active in radio groups as well as photography clubs and has weekly involvement in teaching Computer Pals groups the basics of computing and various software uses. He is a skilled Calligrapher and it would make your eyes water to see his book-binding skills. He is very innovative in his approach to low cost cures. Pre modern installations, to see Te'Deus get (his own) PA system up and on with additional mikes here and there for Q and A at meetings right through to his creation of a soft flash for his veteran Ricoh G3 is to see a man full of mind boggling solutions. You would bid to buy his A4 bound manual for his G3, printed both sides in colour and bound.....and all data from the CD supplied by Ricoh. Indeed Ricoh would probably buy it themselves!!??. Te'Deus' soft flash would enjoy world acclaim if the world knew. The built in flash has been redirected to a slaved flash mounted above but rearward facing, angled up to a bounce card sending light to the target. A pic of this will appear somewhere here-in.

During his triunph in Rome, Te'Deus took his first steps into renewable energy and decided to build a sun operated clock on his return home, He had the Gnomon, that's the pointy bit that hurts when you sit on it, and the time plate cast in bronze in the far wilds of South Australia and offset the installation using radio triangulation to sub seconds of arc suitable for his Sydney home.

Te'Deus, may your shadow never grow less..........Quad Erat Demonstrandum

Editors Note: See his shed and Radio Computer shack below.....awesome!!

Gallerium last updated 6 June 2010