Bill Hart's Web Page
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email: billhart at hartpierce dot net
About us . . .
Music
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barn dance
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Genealogy
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History Studies
Bill Hart
Retired DSP engineer at
Rockwell Collins
before it was re-acquired, working on digital filtering, radio receivers and transmitters, and data transmission.
Went to
Iowa State University
a long time ago.
Enjoys old-time
music
.
Plays harmonica and second fiddle in "The Ridgerunners" band.
Enjoys barn
dances.
with old-fashioned square dancing and New England style contra dances.
Has operated sound reinforcement systems for dances, bands, and the
CSPS Hall
concert venue.
As amateur radio operator WB0TXY, had lots of fun at transmitter hunts. Not very active now, just monitoring storm watch.
Enjoys solving puzzles, particularly ones that yield to math or following a string of clues.
Researches
Genealogy
and
History
. Interested in the Red Rock Line surveyed after a treaty with the Sac and Fox (Meskwaki).
Has been finding benchmarks, which were formerly on the
Geocaching
site, and are more interesting, and discussing on the
benchmark hunting forum
.
Uses an old Trimble 4000sse GPS receiver to submit
GPSonBM
data to NGS.
Belongs to the
Surveyors Historical Society
and follows the
RPLS Today
surveyors forum.
Volunteered for three digs run by the
Office of the State Archaeologist
as a member of the
Iowa Archaeological Society.
Has tinkered with fiction writing and enjoys the
Noble Pen
critique group in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Karen Pierce
is married to Bill
Retired from doing Data Analysis for
Unity Point St. Lukes Hospital
in the Performance Improvement department.
Karen plays
Hammered Dulcimer
(more
Photos
) and likes the old-time square and contra
dances.
Sings and plays with the Deep Dish Divas (
facebook
) (
You Tube
)
Plays
traditional music
in The Ridgerunners, and sometimes plays with Celtic and other groups.
updated 2026 Oct 11 Opinions are our own or our cat's.