[MAMS] Fw: MUD 2012 (Santa Clara, Ca.)

[Dave Calvert]

Here it is........
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From: miclevel at comcast.net
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:16:02 +1200
To: kb0pe at hotmail.com

Subject: Microwave Update 2012
 
 
The 50 MHz and Up Group is hosting this year's Microwave Update conference from October 18
to 21 in Santa Clara, CA, (near San Jose and San Francisco). Please see www.microwaveupdate.org
for more info on the conference schedule, location and hotel info. 
 
This is the list of presentations and/or workshops on technical and operational aspects of microwave
weak signal amateur radio in the centimeter, millimeter and submillimeter to light wavelengths. Some
suggested areas of interest include:
 
- Antenna design, simulation, construction, measurement, application
- Station and Rover design, packaging and operation
- Operating techniques, software and other aids
- Propagation modes and enhancements
- Emission modes (ATV, digital modulation, wide area packet networks, etc)
- Practical effects and limits of phase noise, antennas, multipath, scatter on various emission modes
- Microwave components (affordable and available modern commercial components)
- Microwave components (homebrewed or surplus)
- Microwave building blocks (LNAs, PAs, LO chains, Mixers, Synthesizers, Filters, etc)
- Transverters (fixed and rover, single and multiband)
- Beacons 
- Repeaters (microwave bands and/or unusual modes like ATV, packet WAN)
- Construction techniques (SMT, wirebond, microstrip, waveguide, substrates, homebrew)
- Measurement (gain, phase, S-parms, noise figure, phase noise, etc) equipment and techniques (tuning
   amplifiers or filters, optimizing Noise figure, measuring phase noise, antenna patterns and gain) ranging
   from professional to homebrew/shoestring budgets.
- CAD (preferably free or low cost) for circuit, antenna, path and system simulation and design
- Conversion of surplus microwave equipment
- or, suggest your own topics
 
New designs or surplus conversion tips, professionally engineered or hacked on a shoestring budget. 
Tutorials and overviews are also welcome to summarize current know how and to help and encourage
newcomers. 
 
Papers will be published in the proceedings and may also be selected for presentation at the conference.
Some topics may be organized and presented as workshops (for example, construction and measurement
techniques).
 
 Questions, papers or ideas for papers should be sent to this address: mud2012papers at gmail.com
 
If you don't get a confirmation response within a few days, please check with me at: miclevel at comcast.net
to make sure that your paper wasn't eaten by a spam or bandwidth filter somewhere. 
 
Looking forward to seeing all of you at MUD2012,
 
Mike Lavelle, K6ML
50 MHz and Up Group
MUD 2012 Technical Program 
 
PS: Please pass this on to any and all interested that I may have missed.

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