Steve Unger named acting Ofcom Chief Executive

The Board of Ofcom today announced that Steve Unger will step up as acting Chief Executive at the end of the year.

Steve Unger named acting Ofcom Chief Executive

Steve is currently Director of the Strategy, International, Technology and Economist Group at Ofcom. He will step up as interim Chief Executive when Ed Richards stands down at the end of December.

The process to appoint a permanent Chief Executive is under way and the Board of Ofcom will announce an appointment in the New Year.

Steve will take on the full responsibilities of Chief Executive and become Ofcom’s Accountable Officer while the process for appointing a permanent successor to Ed Richards is under way.

VHF operation in Antarctica

UK Radio amateur operator Cathy Collness M0RTW is taking up the post of Radio Communications Officer at the Rothera Research Station.

In 2013 Cathy took the Foundation and Advanced amateur radio training courses run by the Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society (CARS).

Cathy describes the VHF communications system at the base on her blog - http://passyourmessage.com/2014/09/11/vhf-repeaters-and-frequencies/

Amateur radio ham receives Nobel Prize

Radio amateur Professor William E. Moerner WN6I has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

William Moerner, WN6I, of Los Altos, a chemistry professor at Stanford University, will share the prestigious award equally with two other researchers — Eric Betzig and Stefan Hell — for their work in high-resolution microscopy / nanoscopy.

For many years scientists had believed that an optical microscope could never yield better than 0.2 micrometer resolution. The three scientists over came that limitation through what the Nobel panel called “the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.”

Read the Stanford News article - http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/october/moerner-nobel-prize-100814.html