On 8/27/21 3:48 PM, Lloyd Johnson wrote:
It sounds like you had/have a very interesting job. Signal processing was an area that I had an interest in when pursuing my masters (which I did not receive until 1995 - 20 years after my bachelors). Shortly after getting my MSEE, I transferred from Seattle to Houston to work on a NASA contract as a software test engineer for the International Space Station. I didn't really use my electronics background too much at work after that. This was okay since I really loved working with NASA on the space station.
We just recently became a sub to a company that won a their 2nd phase contract (prototype) with NASA for a communication system on NASA's Moon base project. Their plan is to use our 64GS/s converters, meaning if they were to win the final phase contract in late 2023 time-frame, our chips could one day end up on far side of the Moon!
Maybe in my production version of that chip I should embed a complete Model 100 system to control the frequency hopping or something :)
The work you do for the Model 100 Users Group is greatly appreciated. I have found the information at www.club100.org to be extremely helpful.
Thanks, though the past couple of years I haven't really had time to do all that much except keep the "lights on and sweep the floors" as Rick Hanson would have put it.
Ken
