Your QRZ Bio page

[KA9VQF]

Back when we finally got 'real' internet here in my small town my ISP offered me something like 580mb of free space on his server so I could have my very own web page. The idea was that I would want to put pictures of everything I owned on the page along with several kiloclicks of text describing it all and my exact location. And I would want more space.


Naturally that's exactly what I did along with some duty free midi tunes that would play when someone would open my page. Somehow I managed to keep it all under the limited space and when he 'gave' me more space I resisted the urge to put more pictures on it. I did add some more midi music though.


Then one day it hit me, I had given potential thieves a shopping list of all my worldly possessions and even a map to my front door. Also my page mostly sucked just like so many other personal web pages of the time. It was really the forerunner of facebook.


So,....


I deleted it all, I thought. I found another site where everything I had posted on my supposedly secure site on my ISP's server and bits and pieces on lots and lots of other sites. It took years and years and switching to several different ISP's to finally kill it all.


Every now and then I do search with random browsers looking for any remnant of my webpage. The last few times I only found small snips of it. There is one site where someone is using a picture of my, new at that time, Cavalier. I think they found it somewhere on the net and they think it is just a stock photo but I can recognize my garage in the background. It doesn't matter really. Anyone who really wants to can and will find me anytime.


My QRS bio page has more than anyone would ever really want to know about me already.

[KA9OFN]

Here's a link to an article written by QRZ member, W4KDA. It's a helpful piece on how to write an appealing bio for your QRZ page.
https://kylethepontificator.wordpres...ling-qrz-page/

Nice job, Kyle

No disrespect, but I don't need someone telling me what makes a "good" bio page. It's my page. Who better than me knows how I want to present myself?

It reminds me of the scene from the Rodney Dangerfield movie Back to School. Rodney cheats by hiring author Kurt Vonnegut to write a class assignment about one of his own novels. Rodney turns the essay in as his own; the professor gives the paper a "D" grade and tells him, "This crap isn't even close to what Kurt Vonnegut meant."

I purposely leave my bio details sparse for privacy reasons. If it isn't there, then I don't want you to know. It's bad enough that my radio license is public record.

[W7UUU]

And THEN there's bios like this:

http://www.qrz.com/db/W7OE



Dave
W7UUU

[XV2PS]

Your Bio is you; why would you want to look like somebody else via some guidance. Why would you need to add fun when you are not funny by nature?
Keep that sort of guidance when you need to write a resume to apply for a job.

[WA7PRC]

... though I don't mention favorite bands I do mention favorite modes.

My favorite mode is à la mode:

Three days after TGIF is OSIM!

Eons ago, I heard it called OHIMA. The 2nd and 4th days of the work week are "Sure Happy It's Tuesday/Thursday".