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Hawk-Owl Systems, Inc of Essex, Montana – A Breakthrough in Backyard Biology

For much of the past year, Doug Bonham has holed up in his Essex home, building circuit boards and dreaming about birds.

His last paycheck came last April, around the time he lost his electronics job in Seattle. Since then, he has lived off an ever-dwindling savings account. But he always knew he had an idea with vast potential, an idea with wings, if he could only get it to fly.

Bonham’s perseverance has proven worth the year of financial uncertainty. The National Science Foundation recently awarded Bonham’s one-man business Hawk-Owl Systems http://www.hawkowl.com , in partnership with Craighead Beringia South, a $260,000 grant to continue efforts to improve technology for wildlife research transmitters.

Bonham will build the prototypes and then pass them on to S & K Technologies http://www.sktcorp.com/ (As corrected in the comment from Larry Hall below, the transmitters will be built by S&K Electronics http://www.skecorp.com/ ) out of Ronan where the transmitters will be produced in larger quantities. Biologists can customize them, with materials such as epoxy, to fit them to specific animals.

By Myers Reece

Full Story: http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/a_breakthrough_in_backyard_biology/23145/

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