[GAham] Fwd: Re: Bob Bruninga, WB4APR coming to Georgia Tech

[David Ziskind, KE4QLH]

Don't forget we have a testing session at GT this Sunday at 2:30pm!

See below for an announcement regarding a prominent speaker coming to Tech.

73,
David
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David Ziskind, KE4QLH <mailto:ke4qlh@arrl.net>
Emergency Coordinator - North Fulton County (Georgia) A.R.E.S
Webpage: http://www.fultonares.org
Communications Director, Georgia Games



>        Georgia Tech hosts Bob Bruniga, APRS designer
>
>   The Georgia Tech Amateur Radio club and the Georgia Tech IEEE
>student chapter proudly present a demo and lecture given Bob Bruniga,
>WB4APR on Monday, November 4, 2002. Bob will give a live demonstration
>of a satellite Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS) ground
>station as well as a lecture on the future of APRS. Both events are
>open to the public and all interested are welcome to attend.
>
>   When: Monday, November 4, 2002. Demo at 5:45pm; lecture at 6:30pm
>
>   Where: Georgia Tech campus, Old Architecture building, room 123
>   See http://gtalumni.org/campusmap/bldngmodel.html?id=76&navview=0
>   There should be plenty of parking near the building after 5pm.
>
>   Questions? Contact David at ke4qlh@arrl.net.
>
>   Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, came to wide accolades in 1992 with his
>creation of the Automatic Position Reporting System, a way for Amateur
>Radio Operators to interface a GPS to a radio that allows for
>automatic position reporting of GPS locations via radio.  Mr. Bruninga
>graduated from Georgia Tech in 1970 with a Bachelors degree in
>Electrical Engineering, where he also joined the Naval Reserve
>Officers Training Corps.  He followed-up with a Masters degree, also
>in EE, at the Naval Postgraduate School, in 1971.  During his 20 years
>of service, Commander Bruninga rose to serve as Engineering Duty
>Officer, dealing with combat systems and communications.  In the late
>1970's, Bob Bruninga wrote one of the first Amateur Radio packet
>bulletin board systems (BBS).  He specified the high frequency (HF)
>packet modem standard of 200 Hz frequency shift in the FSK mode
>(frequency shift keying).  He also created the first HF packet BBS for
>Commodore PC's used worldwide in 1983.  Commander Bruninga was hired
>as Senior Research Engineer for the US Naval Academy Satellite Lab.
>Owing to his creation of the APRS system, Bob Bruninga assisted
>Kenwood with design for its APRS-ready radios, the TH-D7A and the
>TM-D700A, in 1997.  He helped the USNA design and build the PCsat, the
>first APRS satellite.  He is currently designing three more follow-on
>APRS satellite systems with the US Naval Academy's Satellite Lab.