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</head><body><p>Sadly Ian I think RF skills and engineering intuition are no longer the only thing - the paradigm has shifted - a good mathematicians is also needed for this route, plus a good coder if efficiency is important. All working hand-in-hand ideally, but at the nanowatt level the thing will probably still work fine if the maths and coding are right, even in the absence of RF engineering skills. Sad but demonstrably true.<br></p><p>Alex<br></p><blockquote type="cite">On 10 March 2017 at 17:18 Ian Hickling <transplanfm@hotmail.com> wrote:<br><br><div id="ox-4e2a2d59d5-divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" dir="ltr"><p><br></p><p>All you need is a really good experienced RF engineer - rather than a PhD student.<br> There are plenty around here (not me!) who will give you an authentic appraisal - probably for the fun of it.</p><p><br></p><div id="ox-4e2a2d59d5-Signature"><div style="line-height: 21.3px; color: #444444; background-color: #ffffff;"><p class="ox-4e2a2d59d5-ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.72px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 22.72px;"><span style="line-height: 22.72px; color: #222222;">Ian Hickling</span></span></span></p></div><p class="ox-4e2a2d59d5-ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.72px; color: #444444; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="line-height: 22.72px; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Partner</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; line-height: 22.72px;"><br style="line-height: 22.72px;"> <br style="line-height: 22.72px;"> <a href="http://www.transplanuk.com/" target="_blank" style="line-height: 22.72px; color: blue;" id="ox-4e2a2d59d5-LPNoLP"><span style="line-height: 22.72px; color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;"><img id="ox-4e2a2d59d5-ecx_x0000_i1025" style="line-height: 22.72px; border: none;" src="https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/2SkDsnIzSZgRbNnNKBSiwxiFhFQWRGV55mTjVL23fulnJpstZmYxeKrrYefY4qxiSgkMrAETld64XINLXCsujE_zI5gAsQyWeCWvHixcrNYtar3Sij4YlVBgN2NSQ-n2DsgZvrnpWZlfwCQ=s0-d-e1-ft#http://www.transplanuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/transplan_UK_weblogo_190x60.png" alt="" border="0"></span></a></span><br></p><div style="line-height: 21.3px; color: #444444; background-color: #ffffff;"><p class="ox-4e2a2d59d5-ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.72px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em style="line-height: 22.72px;"><span style="line-height: 22.72px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #222222;">Office: 016 3557 8435  (07h to 22h GTS)</span></em></span></p></div><div style="line-height: 21.3px; color: #444444; background-color: #ffffff;"><p class="ox-4e2a2d59d5-ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.72px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em style="line-height: 22.72px;"><span style="line-height: 22.72px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #222222;">Car: 075 3098 0115 (only responds when driving)</span></em></span></p></div><div style="line-height: 21.3px; color: #444444; background-color: #ffffff;"><p class="ox-4e2a2d59d5-ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.72px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><em style="line-height: 22.72px;"><span style="line-height: 22.72px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: small;">6 Horn Street, Compton, NEWBURY, RG20 6QS</span></span></em></p></div></div></div><hr style="display: inline-block; width: 98%;"><div id="ox-4e2a2d59d5-divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><strong>From:</strong> cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk <cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk> on behalf of Associated Broadcast Consultants <info@a-bc.co.uk><br> <strong>Sent:</strong> 10 March 2017 14:22:25<br> <strong>To:</strong> The Community Media Association Discussion List<br> <strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [cma-l] Singing posters and talking shirts stealing from your FM signal...</span><div> </div></div><div><div dir="ltr">Sounds like it is is a new version of "the rusty bolt"!<div><br></div><div>I just discovered today that my company has just employed a PhD student to look at this technology.  They are "uber-clever" chaps in our R&D department, so I think there might be something in it....</div><div><br></div><div>Glyn</div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></body></html>