Who is Halibut Electronics?

Halibut Electronics is a small, one person business on the Central Coast area of California. That one person is Mark Smith, aka Smitty, N6MTS.

My background is in electronics and computers. Professionally, I’ve been in IT and Information Security of various flavors since the mid 90s. But the soldering iron was never far away, mostly as a hobby, but occasionally as an accidental extension of my IT/InfoSec job.

In late 2021, I left my IT job with the intention of taking a ~6 month sabbatical, some time to un-burnout. Early in that process, I started working on a personal electronics project that had been long neglected (SOAR). While talking to friends about what I was working on, I realized I could turn this into a business. So Halibut Electronics was born.

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