Dang it failed to mention he is from rural Alabama! And can spin a tale or two about his childhood! Just Folk! (smile) Knockem dead Bob!
Eric2 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken N9VV Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 7:05 PM To: FlexRadio Systems email reflector Subject: [Flexradio] "refreshingly humble" == N4HY ??? Is someone bootlegging Bob's call? is the same Bob we know and love? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [QRP-L] Atlanticon speaker Bob McGwire N4HY Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 18:17:56 -0500 From: Joseph Everhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Njqrp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gang, NJQRP is honored to have a quite distinguished speaker on the Atlanticon Agenda. Though not strictly speaking a full-time qrp'er the speaker to be introduced is a prominent member of the amateur radio community and a frequent attendee of the NJQRP meetings. He's also a great guy to talk to and refreshingly humble. The following bio reveals the high calibre and contributions to hamdom: Bob McGwier is N4HY. He has a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and works for the Center for Communications Research as a member of the research staff. His thesis, "Regular Perturbations and Nonlinear Filtering", sprang from his interest in phase-locked loops and range-rate orbit determination. Well-known as N4HY, he has been an amateur radio operator since 1964. Bob was the cofounder of the AMSAT-TAPR DSP project with Tom Clark, W3IWI. Bob is author of the DSP code in the old AEA DSP1232 and DSP2232 multimode controllers. Timewave offered these units. He was a designer and builder on the AMSAT Microsat's and participated in the Amsat-Oscar 13 and Amsat-Oscar 40 projects. Bob is the current Vice President for Engineering for AMSAT and is currently working on the AMSAT-NA Eagle project on several software-defined radio transponders, the AMSAT-DL Phase3 Express project where he is bringing up IPS for the onboard computer and will author the software-defined radio for low speed telecommand on the AMSAT-DL upcoming projects. Bob is currently chairman of the ARRL Software-Defined Radio Working Group and a member of the High Speed Multimedia working group. He is Bob is a member of ARRL, AMSAT, TAPR, Packrats (V.P.) and the Frankford Radio Club. First licensed in the early 1960's at the ripe old age of 10, amateur radio dominates every aspect of his life. He flirted with his high school sweet over Morse code when her mother would not let us talk on the telephone. Our courtship consisted of building her a Heathkit qrp rig and putting on a battery in 1970. She is now N2HPE and married to Bob. They have three wonderful children and live in East Windsor, NJ. Bob's discussion will likely be the technical high point of the Atlanticon presentations. He will be discussing the Soft-Rock 40 which is a wildly popular simple DSP receiver which NJQRP recently was able to offer to the QRP homebrew community. This very topical subject presented by such a technicaly astute yet very down-to-earth speaker is an absolute must-hear! Be sure not to miss it! Joe N2CX George N2APB _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
