Authors - Software Defined Radio Academy 2016

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Prof. Dr. Michael Hartje, DK5HH

Programme Committee

Dr. Howard White, VE3GFW

Dr Howard White was first licensed in 1958 whereupon he connected a 4 bit tube computer to a radio to send digital computer counts, Dr. While was CEO and Chief Technologist of more than a dozen companies in the fields of traffic control computers, transportation monitoring systems, vehicle tracking systems and digital communications. Since retiring in 2012, he has worked on remoting SDR radios and has SDR remoted from 23 different countries. At Dayton 2015, Flex Radio named him "2014 Elmer of the Year".

Prof. Dr. Harald Gerlach, DL2SAX

Hochschule Neu-Ulm

Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR

President and CEO FlexRadio Systems

Gerald Youngblood is the founder and CEO of FlexRadio Systems. FlexRadio is a leader in Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology for the Amateur Radio market. In 2003, FlexRadio introduced the first true SDR transceiver for the amateur radio use, the SDR-1000. In 2007, the company introduced its second generation FLEX-5000 SDR transceivers and began expansion into the commercial and government markets. In 2012 FlexRadio introduced a complete new family of direct sampling radio servers, the FLEX-6000 Signature Series. Gerald was the lead hardware designer for the SDR-1000, FLEX-5000, FLEX-6300, FLEX-6500, and FLEX-6700.

Gerald’s career spans over 40 years in the technology industry, where he founded or helped to found eight companies related to computer hardware, software, and peripherals. In 1994, he led SunRiver Corporation (later Boundless Corp.) to become a publicly traded company with ~$140 million in 1996 sales. After leaving Boundless in 1996, he began assisting early stage startups through the early organizational and funding stages. In this direct effort and as a founding parter of SeedStage.com, he assisted more than a dozen companies in achieving first round venture funding in the late 1990s.

During the period of involvement with SeedStage, Gerald became interested again in Ham Radio after a 25 year lull. He began experimenting with PC based SDR technology as a hobby, which serendipitously became FlexRadio Systems in 2003 with the introduction of the SDR-1000.

Stephen Hicks, N5AC

VP Engineering, FlexRadio Systems

David Minchin, VK5KK

David Minchin, of the Wireless Institute of Australia, where he was President of VK5, was first licensed as VK5KK in 1975. He has spent much of the past 40 years experimenting on frequencies above 144 MHz, more specifically microwave frequencies up to 76 GHz. His involvement with SDR has been to experiment and create a transceiver better suited for use with microwave transverters and digital modes.

Marcus Müller, ETTUS

Marcus Müller first came into contact with SDR and GNU Radio in 2010, when he did a team project implementing spectral estimation algorithms for GNU Radio. Since then, he became an active member of the GNU Radio community, had some fun with OFDM radar, did a Google Summer of Code project and enjoys his work as support engineer for Ettus. He's still working on his master degree in electrical engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Frank Werner-Krippendorf, HB9FXQ

Frank Werner-Krippendorf is developer at kripp.ch GmbH in Ittigen BE, contributes to open source, tweets as @HB9FXQ on ocassion. His passion in HAM radio is the combination of electronics with computer science. He is licensed since 2015 while writing professional software for more than 10 years.

Stefan Scholl

Stefan Scholl (DC9ST) is a member of the Amateur Radio Research Group of TU Kaiserslautern, Germany. He is currently doing a PhD in the domain of forward error correction systems and is interested in homebrew radio equipment and SDRs.

Sebastian Müller

Sebastian Müller is an electrical engineering student at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology working at his master degree. With his focus on communication technology, he first came in touch with SDR during his bachelor thesis 2014, where he developed a radar cross section estimator for the gr-radar project. He also participated two times in the IEEE Signal Intelligence Challenge, where he extensively used GNU Radio to solve the challenges. Besides his studies, he is trying to contribute to the development of the GNU Radio framework.

Stefan Scholl, DC9ST

Bastian Blössl, DF1BBL

Bastian Bloessl is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Paderborn, Germany. At University he uses Software Defined Radios to study Vehicular and Sensor Networks. In his free time he plays with SDRs to explore the spectrum and maintains several GNU Radio Out of Tree Modules for example for the FM Radio Data System, ZigBee, and WiFi.

Andreas Müller, DC1MIL

Chaos Computer Club München

Christian Obersteiner, DL1COM