[SADXA] This might be interesting

[Wes Stewart]

Indeed it is.

--- On Fri, 9/3/10, GAIL E PETERSON <n7bxx at q.com> wrote:

> From: GAIL E PETERSON <n7bxx at q.com>
> Subject: [SADXA] This might be interesting
> To: "SADXA mail list" <sadxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Friday, September 3, 2010, 5:30 PM
> 
> press at ntia.doc.gov
> BOULDER, CO — The Institute for Telecommunication
> Sciences (ITS), a 
> division of the National Telecommunications and Information
> 
> Administration (NTIA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce,
> today released
>  a collection of online training and educational videos for
> public 
> viewing on ITS’s website.
>  These videos cover telecommunications topics ranging from
> an easily 
> understandable review of the fundamentals of radio
> spectrum—such as 
> defining decibels using common logarithms—to in-depth
> explanations of 
> complex engineering issues like resolving
> signal-interference problems. 
> In announcing the public posting of this video collection,
> Al 
> Vincent, Director of ITS, stressed that this is the first
> of what he 
> expects to be a valuable educational series. “The
> publication of these 
> videos reflects ITS’s goal to be not only a technical
> resource for 
> telecommunication standards development, but also a
> trusted, impartial 
> informational resource for industry, students, the general
> public, and 
> other government organizations,” said Vincent. “This
> unique 
> web-published video series represents a significant
> expansion in the 
> accessibility of ITS’s research findings for the public,
> and we 
> certainly hope to continue to make information on
> additional topics 
> available in this way.”
> ITS provides a variety of useful information and tools on
> its 
> website, including technical reports, radio propagation
> data and models,
>  and various ITS-developed software tools. Since its
> founding over 70 
> years ago, ITS research has been fundamental to the
> development of 
> realistic and achievable standards for telecommunication
> protocols and 
> equipment.
> Video presenter Frank Sanders, a physicist and electrical
> engineer 
> who leads ITS’s Telecommunications Theory Division,
> regularly authors 
> ITS contributions to the International Telecommunication
> Union (ITU). 
> The ITU is a United Nations agency that deals with
> telecommunications 
> and technology issues.
> The Institute for Telecommunication Sciences is the
> research and 
> engineering laboratory of NTIA, which serves as the
> executive branch 
> agency principally responsible for advising the President
> on 
> communications and information policies. For more
> information about ITS,
>  visit the ITS website. For more information about NTIA,
> visit the NTIA website.     
>         
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