Welcome to VK3ZDD's Website!

Hi, I'm Malcolm Dow, a.k.a. radio ham VK3ZDD.

I used to be a design draftsman with the Department of Civil Aviation - now the Department of Transport and Regional Services, then a technical officer researching robotics and vision systems at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Division of Manufacturing Technology. This is now CSIRO Complex Systems Integration (CCSI). Apart from being part of the small team that developed Australia's first flexible manufacturing cell - integrating several industrial robots, a CNC milling machine and an Automatix vision processing system into a cell capable of multi tasking and rapid changeover of jobs, I also had some involvement in the bionic ear project and a camera and vision system for the Australia telescope.

Next I became a lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer technology at Victoria University, teaching computer programming, microprocessor technology, computer aided design and artificial intelligence. My research specialisation was in artificial intelligence, expert systems and speech recognition systems.

In 1997 I left the university to become, with my wife Diana, pastor of Williamstown Baptist Church, and to start a small business, doing website design and hosting: The Roaring Mouse. The name is inspired by Leonard Wibberly's book and the wonderful Peter Sellers' film The Mouse that Roared.

My main means of relaxation, apart from reading, writing, and music (I'm a keyboard player), is the hobby of ham radio. I have held an Amateur Radio Operator's Licence for about 40 years, and hold the callsign VK3ZDD. I'm a member of the Wireless Institute of Australia- Victorian Division, the Radio Society of Great Britain, and the American Radio Relay League.

I began my tertiary eductation at Collingwood Technical College, now part of North Melbourne Institute of TAFE, finishing a Higher Technician Certificate in Electrical Design Drafting, then did a Bachelor of Applied Science in mathematics at RMIT University, followed by Master of Electrical Engineering by research at Victoria University. My research area was in computer speech recognition and human language understanding, resulting in a speech controlled robot. Then I completed a Certificate of Christian Ministry at the Bible College of Victoria, and a Bachelor of Theology (Honours) at Whitley College - part of the Melboutne College of Divinity (University of Melbourne).My honours thesis was "An Evangelical Response to Postmodernity".

If you would like to learn more about my thinking you might like to visit one of my blogs (weblogs):

Some of my websites you might like to visit:

• My church - Williamstown Baptist Church and Beth Tephillah Ministry Centre
• My church network - Hobsons Bay Churches
• Our wider church network - Awakening West
• Healing and prayer ministry at the Prayer Ministries Network
• My personal website.
• My wife Diana's site.
• My website design and hosting business: The Roaring Mouse.
• Would you like to learn how to hear God's voice? Try our Listening 2 God course!.
• Would you like to learn about speaking in tongues? It's controversial, but it's also powerful!.

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