Bill works as an RF/Wireless Application Engineer for Tektronix at our Dallas Measurement Business Division Sales office in Richardson, Texas. My main hobby is Amateur Radio (call sign N5BB or alternate sound). My local Amateur Radio Club is: Irving Amateur Radio Club
I work in Richardson, TX (suburb of Dallas) as an RF Application Engineer for Tektronix (headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon).
Shortly after I was hired by Tektronix in 1987, I first visited the Mount Hood area to the east of Portland. Yes, that's me in the front of that majestic Oregon monument. Here is another view of a younger me. I support Tektronix customers in Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, western Missouri, and some in Nevada. The products I work with are RF and wireless test equipment from Tektronix. Sometimes you get a nice rental car.
My house is near Irving Baylor Healthcare Hospital, close to the intersection of Texas Hwy. 183 and MacArthur Blvd. in Irving, Texas. I live a few miles east of the south entrance to D/FW Airport. There are about 49 trees in my yard.
My brother Bob Byrom and his wife Laurel (McClure) have a son (Sam Byrom) and a daughter (Rebecca Byrom). They live in Mountain View, California. Bob is a software engineer for the NonStop Computing division of Hewlett-Packard, while Laurel is a medical doctor.
My mother, Evelyn L. Byrom, passed away on December 21, 2008. My dad, John F. Byrom, passed away on April 17, 2003, after a long fight with ALS. Here is a photo of my parents John F. Byrom and Evelyn Byrom taken several years ago, before my dad developed ALS. My dad grew up in Gatesville, Texas, about 40 miles southwest of Waco. His parents were Claud & Lucy Byrom.
Amateur Radio friends Pete Jordahl K5GM (left) and Rick Herndon K5FNI (right) live in Austin TX and Mathis TX (respectively).
I was born in Austin, Texas, in 1953. I grew up there and attended the University of Texas at Austin Electrical Engineering School from 1972-1976. I worked for a small company, Rhodes-Groos Laboratories, which closed in 1982. I then started a small company which closed in 1987. Tektronix then hired me and I moved from Austin to the Dallas area in 1987.
Bill Byrom, Irving, Texas, USA
