AB2KT

Episode 212 - Frank Brickle - AB2KT

Frank Brickle, AB2KT, took a professional path to music composition at Princeton. He combined his musical composition skills with his technical knowledge of computer programming and background in amateur radio to develop the first software defined radio (SDR) software used first by the US government and later by private industry.  Frank AB2KT is a noted classical music and opera composer and a pioneer in SDR technology.

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Frank Brickle, AB2KT Websites:

• Web Site
• YouTube
• Twitter
• DttSP Project
• LinkedIn

Hometown: Scranton, PA

Ameco Code Practice LP

ARRL - American Radio Relay League

First License: Age 12, Novice, 1963, WN2GRK

Elmers:

• Burt W2TQS administered novice exam
• Joe Bensler,
• Willard Felch, RACES

First Rig:

• Heathkit DX40 Transmitter
• Hammarlund HQ-110 Receiver
• Eico 722 VFO
• 40 meter dipole
• Homebrew L-match antenna tuner
• Field Strength Meter

Favorite Mode: CW

Current Rigs:

• Yaesu FT-817 QRP portable transceiver
• Yaesu FT-857 QRP portable transceiver

SOTA - Summits on the Air

Edward Armstrong Tower

Gene Shepard K2ORS

IBM 1420 main frame

New York State Arts Council

Philip Glass, musician

Princeton University, Musical composition

Digital signal processing

Song Cycle in the form of 32 Variations from Mezzo Soprano, By Frank Brickle. Not yet released.

Software Defined Radio

The Center for Communications Research, Princeton, NJ, sponsored by US Department of Defense

QSO Today, Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR

SDR1000 Transceiver

PowerSDR software - developed by Frank Brickle and Bob McGwier

Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum

Agilent 3238S Broadband Surveillance Receiver

AMSAT Oscar-Echo, SDR-1000 and Higher Speed FSK, By Frank Brickle, AB2KT, and Bob McGwier, N4HY

Open Research Institute

QSO Today, Bruce Perens, K6BP

Michele Thompson, W5NYV

DVB Standard

GNU Radio

RTL SDR Dongle

Philco Radio Shop in Tel Aviv marker

Hummus

Carmel Market, Tel Aviv

QSO Today, Amnon Bar Giora, 4X1DF

IOTA - Islands on the air

Open Research Institute

Ground Staton Project

Advice to new or returning hams: Jump in - spend more time listening in the HF bands, do a lot of different things.

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