EME 2012

Graham Murchie – G4FSG – Chairman
First licensed in 1966, Graham has concentrated almost exclusively on VHF and microwave bands. He is currently active on 50MHz and all bands from 144MHz to 10GHz terrestrial. He is retired from the telecoms industry where he worked initially on the early 11GHz digital terrestrial systems. After 10 years in the RF field, he moved to ICT and has had many management roles including running the IP network in the UK.
He is founder Chairman of Martlesham Radio Society, past Chairman of the RSGB Microwave Committee, previously Microwave Beacon Co-ordinator for the UK, currently Treasurer of the UK Microwave Group, and Chairman of the EME 2012 Organising Committee.

Peter Blair – G3LTF – Special Adviser
Peter became a VHF SWL in 1950 and was licensed in 1957, since then he has been active from 6m to 3cm using all modes of propagation. He started to work on EME systems in 1963, inspired by the work of Sam Harris on 1296MHz and made his first EME contact with KP4BPZ in June 1964 on 432MHz. He is currently regularly active on EME on 70, 23, 13, 9 and 6cm and occasionally 2m, and is building for 3cm. He particularly enjoys designing and building both electronics and the mechanical parts of the systems. He retired in 2000 after 45 years in the electronics industry spent mostly in R&D with ITT and Racal Electronics working on Radar, Navigation and Satcom Systems and a host of their components. In retirement, the pursuit of amateur radio is interrupted by other hobbies such as gardening and bird watching and the work with The Smallpiece Trust which helps youngsters in schools to become aware of engineering as a career. He is a Fellow of the IET and Royal Academy of Engineering.

Brian Coleman – G4NNS – Sponsors & Publicity
Trained in the electronics industry, mainly digital and started career in general electronic development. Moved into Micro controller and non military applications of GPS such as specialist vehicle tracking and precision agriculture. First licenced in 1967 as G8AZU interested mainly in VHF, UHF and Microwaves. Operational on 10GHz wide band from 1969-1973 RSGB Microwave award no 9, Aug 1973 (10GHz 150Km+), first GW-GM contact of 212Km 13th Sept 1973. Career interrupted uW amateur radio until 1990 when I started back on 10GHz with narrow band. Started EME on 10GHz in 2001 and am now active on 3.4, 5.7, 10 and 24GHz. Have been involved in building and deploying a number of microwave propagation beacons. Also interested in amateur radio astronomy and talk on this subject to radio and astronomy societies.

Ian White – GM3SEK – Proceedings
A long-time 432MHz moonbouncer (as G3SEK), Ian is still holder of the world DX record with ZL3AAD. He was the project leader and editor of 'The VHF/UHF DX Book' and received the Tom Kirby W1EJ Award in 2002. He is also well known to EME operators for his triode and tetrode PA control boards.
Ian has attended several EME Conferences, often chairing the Operating session, and wrote the most recent version of the 432MHz and Above EME Operating Procedures. Professionally, Ian was a consulting technical author (recently retired) whose projects included Agilent's application note on Noise Figure Measurement Accuracy. In amateur radio he has written more than 200 monthly technical columns for RSGB, along with many magazine articles and conference papers.
GM3SEK is responsible for the EME2012 Conference Proceedings.

Sam Jewell – G4DDK – Overall programme
After more than 40 years in the telecom industry Sam has finally retired and is now enjoying amateur radio, travel and the family, although not necessarily in that order! Sam worked as Head of Group at BT Research Labs, Martlesham for 17 years before his first retirement. Having decided that it was too soon to retire, he then worked for various companies doing frequency management, radio over fibre and Bluetooth chip development before finally calling it a day when the recession hit in 2008.
He writes the monthly Microwave column for the RSGB Radcom magazine as well as a regular column for DUBUS. Sam is active on all bands from 70MHz to 24GHz including 23 and 13cm EME.

John Worsnop – G4BAO – Cambridge liason & Partner Programme
John is a self-employed Chartered Engineer, first licensed in 1971. Professionally, John has worked as a RF Development Engineer a Systems Engineer on Mobile radio, a Software Product Manager for wireless dispatch systems and an Applications Engineer on Wireless power. His PhD research was a study of the end point geometry in meteor burst systems.
His interests are in the technical aspects of the hobby mainly at VHF, UHF and microwaves, his passions are radio propagation and weak signal working. John worked on some of the early repeaters during the 1970s, and has designed and built a number of beacons from VHF to mm waves. He was one of the “Fortunate Forty” who in 1983 were issued with the first permits to operate on 6 metres in the UK.  He is currently active on 13cms EME and 70/23/9/3 and 1.2cms terrestrial and is the author of the popular  "Bodger's Guide to ....." series of articles and presentations.

Murray Niman – G6JYB – RSGB liason
Murray is a professional rf/microwave engineer having started as a Marconi Apprentice in 1980 where he also caught the amateur radio bug. Mainly active at VHF and higher frequencies, Murray is also an HF SDR enthusiast. At a local level he has been involved with radio clubs for many years and is currently Essex Repeater Group Secretary and an active member of the Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society training team.

At more a senior level, Murray is the RSGB's Microwave Spectrum Manager where he has been a leading proponent of modern spectrum strategy and is also the webmaster for UK Microwave Group.

Doug Parker – G4DZU – Booking
Retired at the age of 51 after a career in the Telecoms industry with various roles from software and hardware development to heading a group of technical consultants who designed and sold global IP networks. He still works part time running the finances of a charity that operates in the deprived areas of the UK.

Originally inspired by WA6LET and guided by the Eimac EME notes, since 1978 in the pre-PC days of ‘sight reduction tables’ the majority of his activity has been on EME. He has operated on 144 & 432MHz, and for the past 15 years exclusively on 1296MHz CW & JT65. His worsening hearing impairment has resulted in digital modes now being the preferred mode of operation.

There is a life outside of ham radio, he enjoys motor sport, sea fishing and growing vegetables.

Dave Powis – G4HUP – Treasurer
Dave has held amateur licences for over 40 years and since 1979 as G4HUP. Additionally he has been DL4MUP and also holds ND8P. His radio interests have always been in VHF and above and at one time or another has been active on all bands between 50MHz and 10GHz. At various times since 1990 he has been active on EME on 2m, 23cm and 3cm either under one of his own callsigns or the WC8VOA club station call in West Chester, OH.
He has also been involved in licence training in the UK for over 40 years and is currently a member of the Radio Communications Foundation ‘Standards Committee’, responsible for maintaining appropriate qualification standards for amateur licences at all levels within the UK.
More recently he has been producing Direct Frequency Synthesisers and other products available via his website.
Professionally, Dave is now a lecturer in Electronic Engineering at West Suffolk College, England after nearly 40 years spent in the telecoms industry. Dave has also been active in promoting the recognition of the radar development work carried out by Sir Robert Watson-Watt at Bawdsey Manor in Suffolk between 1936 and 1940 – work that led to a successful defence of the UK’s borders in the subsequent conflict, when Bawdsey remained as an operational radar station in the Chain Home network.

Martin Richmond-Hardy – G8BHC – Website
Licensed 1968 as one of the early G8s. Secretary UK Microwave Group and from June 2011 produces Scatterpoint. Before taking early retirement in 1995 I was a manager in British Telecom with a variety of systems engineering, corporate strategy, marketing and service development roles (non of them radio related), with a spell abroad at SHAPE Technical Centre 1977–80. Interested but not very active in lf, hf, vhf, uhf, digital modes, radio astronomy, and now microwaves at 1.3 and 10GHz. Member RSGB, UKµG, 30MDG, BAA/RAG.
Manage a few websites including eme2012.com, FDARS, www.suffolkmacusergroup.co.uk and my own g8bhc.info.