[GAham] Doug Smith KF6DX coming to Georgia Tech

[David Ziskind, KE4QLH]

The Georgia Tech Amateur Radio Club will be hosting Doug Smith KF6DX on 
March 10 at 7pm in the Old Architecture Building on campus.  For more 
information, please see http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/w4aql/.  The general 
public is invited.

Here is a brief release, which can also be found on our website.


Doug Smith, KF6DX, will speak on the latest in digital-voice and 
software-radio technology in Amateur Radio. Doug was one half of the 
world's first transatlantic digital voice contact on the HF ham bands in 
November of last year. He will describe some of the history of digital 
voice modes, advantages and disadvantages, and what digital voice and 
multimedia communications bode for the future of ham radio. A live 
demonstration will be included.

Doug will also discuss burgeoning developments on the software-radio front, 
including current projects to put affordable software radios into the hands 
of Amateur Radio operators and experimenters. He will go lightly into some 
technical details of state-of-the-art hardware designs and DSP algorithms, 
including those of the new Ten-Tec Orion and various digital 
direction-conversion transceivers.

Doug Smith has 25 years experience designing communications equipment for 
commercial, military and Amateur Radio markets. His work has included 
control systems, DSP, frequency synthesis and speech compression. Doug 
chairs the ARRL Digital Voice and Software Radio Working Groups, but is 
perhaps best known as Editor of QEX: Forum for Communications 
Experimenters, the bimonthly technical magazine of the ARRL. He is the 
author of dozens of articles, the DSP chapter in recent editions of The 
ARRL Handbook, and of Digital Signal Processing Technology: Essentials of 
the Communications Revolution, published late in 2001. Doug was educated at 
the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. He received the 1998 
Doug DeMaw Technical Excellence Award for his writing.


Please forward this email to any interested parties.

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
Communications Director, Peachtree Road Race and Atlanta Marathon