Frank Sanders Self-Portraits
There aren’t many pictures of me. These are them...
Since I am usually the one running the camera, there are not many pictures of me. These are some of the few that are reasonably good....
Dressed as Beowulf, I meet a small atomic bomb loaded with daisies at the annual Weird Science Party at my house.
Here I’m scouting for a radio survey site from a helicopter above a Southwestern desert test range.
Me grinding a telescope mirror in high school. Those were fun days...
Me the year I graduated from high school and joined the U.S. government’s radar measurement group.
At the site of a 110-million-year-old charred fossil log in the Utah desert. I doepaleontology & geology between radars.
Me (left) with some paleontology friends at a field camp.
Desert self portrait with a Brunton compass.
Finding out how an air traffic radar behaves when you jam it with sneaky low-level signals.
Wanna fight about it? Look up NTIA Technical Report TR-06-444 for the answers that we obtained on that one.
Working inside a radar. Courtesy USAF.
Me on an air traffic control radar. They assured me that it was turned off.
Me (left) doing signal calibrations on a radar array. Array was turned off while we were riding around on it. Courtesy USAF.
Examining a meteorite thin section at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
Me with my Little Buddy, Kiska. No, I don’t use her name for any passwords.
Me in my chain maille
Me with my atomic bomb in my college dorm room at CU Boulder, 1987.
Infrared portrait of Frank Sanders.
Random small portrait of Frank Sanders.
Frank in Washington, DC. Photo by Stephanie Pahl.
Frank fixing a generator during desert operations.
Running a spectrum analyzer during a desert field operation at a test range. Peanuts & coffee help get my jobs done.
Poised in a climbing harness, ready to ascend a radar tower at a U.S. Coast Guard station.
And finally, hurling myself out of an airplane...
...and heading for the landing zone (the gray circle near center-left). I did hit it.
