SDR pioneer Dr. Vanu Gopal Bose SK

Software Defined Radio pioneer Dr. Vanu Gopal Bose passed away, aged 52

In 1998, Bose founded Vanu Inc. which pioneered the commercialization of software-defined radio and was the first company to receive FCC certification of a software-defined radio in 2004.

The firm’s technology, which grew out of Bose's graduate research at MIT, increases the role of software in operating the radio-based component of wireless communications networks, including those used for cell phone communications.

His company had recently deployed over 40 Community Connect base stations in Puerto Rico to provide cellular service in the wake of two devastating hurricanes.

Media Story - http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/11/12/vanu-bose-pioneer-cellular-wireless-infrastructure-dies/mK9MjcOEiuPIOovhCGUHFJ/story.html

RSGB President Promotes Success Club Tips

RSGB President Nick Henwood gave a presentation recently at the RSGB Convention where he discussed new and traditional ideas to help an Amateur/Ham Radio club succeed.

The talk explores challenges and solutions. In an interactive session he also discusses how we can share good practice for our mutual benefit.

Bletchley Park 'listener' Passes

One of the last surviving Bletchley Park 'listeners’ who intercepted and passed messages on to Allied codebreakers at Bletchley Park, has died
 
Alison Robins, 97, taught herself Morse code and German during World War Two and stayed up all night eavesdropping messages from U-boats around the British coast.
 
She rarely spoke about her wartime years, that were spent in isolated points around the coastline, intercepting messages from enemy fleets.
 
Forces Network - http://www.forces.net/news/last-surviving-bletchley-park-listener-dies-aged-97