User:ChrisAngove

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Hello, thanks for clicking on me. I was born on 23 July 1957 at Redruth, Cornwall, United Kingdom and I am a chartered engineer in electrical and electronics engineering. I lived at Porthcurno until I was 14 and then moved to Penzance. I went to the Humphry Davy Grammar School. I left Penzance when I was 19 and I worked in Dubai for 2 years and then reurned to the UK, though sadly not to Cornwall. Cornwall is a beautiful place to live but with a local economy dominated by seasonal tourism, agriculture and fishing I did not find any opportunitites there. I was forced to settle in the south east of the UK to go to university and progress my career and I now live in Bromley near London.

I wish I had access to a resource like Wikipedia years earlier. Like many, I find it a bit addictive and I have spent hours looking up many mundane things like pencil, shrub and window so I thought it time to make contributions in the areas I know something about. I admire Jimmy Wales and the aims and objectives of the Wikipedia Foundation and I wish them continued success in improving article quality in years to come.

My philosophy with Wikipedia articles is to choose one that has been started but clearly needs improvement and one which I know something about. Then I spend perhaps a few weeks (not full time unfortunately) creating my improvments offline with as many references as possible before uploading. I don't upload until I feel the result will be a very substantial improvement over the original.

So far I have substantially contributed to:
Porthcurno
Humphry Davy
Richard Trevithick
scattering parameters
Smith chart
NLOS
radio frequency
digital audio broadcasting
anechoic chamber