Amateur Radio Social

Date: Tuesday, 12 June 2018
Time: 18:30-20:30 
Location: Room 108AB; Pennsylvania Convention Center

All radio amateurs and other interested attendees are invited. Bring your QSL Card if you have one.  Be prepared to swap stories and have an eye-ball ragchew.

The Mt. Airy VHF Club (a.k.a. "The Packrats") will have a display of equipment and their contesting activities. The club, founded in 1957, is dedicated to serving the VHF / UHF/ Microwave Amateur Radio community as well as enhancing the state of the art for 50 MHz and above weak signal operation.  Temple University students will also be on hand to demonstrate their mesh network.

The keynote speaker will be Joe Taylor, K1JT. Joe first obtained his amateur radio license as a teenager, which led him to the field of radio astronomy. His Amateur Radio feats have included mounting an 'expedition' in April 2010 to use the Arecibo Radio Telescope to conduct moonbounce with other amateurs around the world using voice, Morse code, and digital communications. His talk will be about WSJT-X ("Weak Signal Communication, by K1JT"), a computer program suite that offers specific digital protocols optimized for EME (moonbounce), meteor scatter, and ionospheric scatter, at VHF/UHF, as well as for LF, MF, and HF propagation. The program can decode fraction-of-a-second signals reflected from ionized meteor trails and steady signals more than 10 dB below the audible threshold.

Professionally, Dr. Taylor was the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Physics at Princeton University, having also served for six years as Dean of Faculty. He retired in 2006. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, opening new possibilities for the study of gravitation. In addition to the Nobel Prize, Dr. Taylor won the Wolf Prize in Physics (1992). He also was awarded a MacArthur fellowship in 1981.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hooton_Taylor_Jr.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-H-Taylor-Jr

Photos by LylePhotos.com, Atlanta, used with permission

Call for Papers for the IEEE Transactions on MTT Special Issue on the 2018 International Microwave Symposium

The IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (IEEE T-MTT) will publish a Special Issue devoted to 2018 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS2018). Authors of all papers accepted for presentation at the IMS2018 are invited to submit an expanded version of their papers to the Special Issue. The expanded version requires that the new technical content includes a more in-depth treatment, new results beyond the IMS2018 paper, or both. Every paper will be reviewed in the same manner as all other regular submissions to this publication. Therefore, authors of papers presented at the IMS2018 are invited to submit a substantially expanded version of their papers to the Special Issue.

Please be aware that your contribution should be prepared as any other regular T-MTT paper, and that it will be evaluated via the same peer-review process. The quality of your contribution must meet the level required for a publication at the MTT Transactions. Since your contribution is an expanded version of your conference paper, it is important to note that according to the instructions for authors, you must meet the following requirement:

“…. You must reference your own work, especially recent journal/conference publications. Discuss your related publications inthe introduction and distinguish the new results you present in your current manuscript from those found in your previous publications. While there is not a specific criteria that must be met, such as 60% new technical material, the reviewers are asked to determine if the paper provides "sufficient new technical material to justify a new paper" when compared to all previously published papers. This standard must be met by all papers, including papers that are submitted to conference special issues. Note that longer introductions and lists of references do not qualify as "technical material." It is acceptable to repeat some results to properly explain the concept and to create a self-contained paper for the reader, but this should be done only when necessary. Please attach pdf files of the previous papers……” 

The due date for the paper submission is 2 May 2018 EOD (UTC/GMT-10)

Download the Call for Papers for the MTT-S Transactions IMS Special Issue

View the Submission Instructions for the MTT-S Transactions IMS Special Issue

Please contact the Guest Editors at email address of IMS2018TransMTTS@gmail.com for any questions.

Ajay Poddar
Synergy Microwave Corp.

Abbas Omar
University of Magdeburg

Stavros Iezekiel
University of Cyprus

This year's finalists are:

Seeing through the Skin for Advanced Fingerprint Biometrics (We3F)
Panagiotis Theofanopoulos, Arizona State University

Radar Microphone: Alexa's Backup in Noisy Environments (Tu2G)
Martin Geiger, University of Ulm

I Need a New Antenna! Can You Print Me One Real Quick? (Tu1H)
John Kimionis, Nokia-Bell Labs (Murray Hill, NJ)

Manufacturing the Future: 3D Printing of Microwave Systems (ThIF1)
Ryan Bahr, Georgia Institute of Technology

Sniffing out Weapons with Microwaves (WeIF1)
Aaron Pitcher, McMaster University

Indoor Radar Imaging: I Can See You (Tu2G)
Jiaming Yan, Nanjing University of Science and Technology

Energy Harvesting: A Revolutionary Solution to Power the Future (We3A)
Tong-Hong Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology

Future Antenna Miniaturization Mechanism (Tu3E)
Hwaider Lin, Northeastern University

Origami: Unfolding the Future of Engineering (Tu1H)
Syed Abdullah Nauroze, Georgia Institute of Technology

A Touchless Touchpad (Tu2G)
Shengchang Lan, Harbin Institute of Technology

Reflecting Wireless Signals to Save Power (Tu3G)
Adrian Tang, NASA Jet Proplusion Laboratory and University of California, Los Angeles

RFID Technology: More than Just Identification (Tu4G)
Konstantinos Zannas, University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP, LCIS

Future Implantable Neurostimulators (Th3C)
Hongming Lyu, University of California, Los Angeles

Hear a Whisper in the Middle of a Concert: Be Selective! (We2C)
Enrico Massoni, University of Pavia

Navigating the Uncertainties of Electromagnetic Field Computations (Tu3D)
Kae-An Liu, University of Toronto

Low-Power Electronic Circuits for Future Quantum Computers (Th3H)
Shirin Montazeri, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

A Powerful Multi-functional Tool for Security, Industrial and Biomedical Applications (Th3F)
Xue Wu, Princeton University

Microwave Sensing: From Corrosion Prevention Management to Non-invasive Infection Monitoring (Th1C)
Zahra Abbasi, University of Alberta

A Deeper Sense of Tiny Biological Processes (Th1C)
Mojtaba Chehelcheraghi, KU Leuven, ESAT- TELEMIC, Telecommunications and Microwaves

RF Blood Pressure Measurement: Noncontact and Continuous (Th3C)
Hong Hong, Nanjing University of Science and Technology

Electromagnetic Heat Exchangers in Energy Beaming Application (Th3B)
Ajit A. Mohekar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

REMINDER: Workshop Notes are due by 14 April 2018

Click here to download the 2018 Workshop Powerpoint Template

Please submit the following:

• One color pdf file for presentation. One slide per page.
• One black-and-white pdf file for printed notes. Two slides per page.

Note: All workshops are required to use the template above. Slides submitted that are not on the approved template will be deemed noncompliant and rejected.

Please contact the Workshop Committee with any additional questions: IMS2018workshops@gmail.com

IMS is pleased to announce the addition of the Student Career Counseling Fair to the activities scheduled during IMS2018!

Thursday, 14 June 2018
Location: Exhibit Floor, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Time: 13:00-14:30

Participating IMS exhibitors will be on hand to offer students guidance on careers including internships in our industry, for RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave devices, components, and systems design and development. In addition, the presenting companies will discuss future career opportunities within their companies and offer advice for students to successfully navigate from University to industry. There is no charge for students to attend the Career Counseling Fair; however participants must be registered IMS attendees.

Participating Companies:

Analog Devices
Anaren Microwave, Inc.
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Cobham
Copper Mountain Technologies
ERZIA Technologies
Marki Microwave, Inc.
MCV Microwave
Mercury Systems
MPI Corporation
SAGE Millimeter, Inc.
SV Microwave
Viking Technology/Sanmina
XMA Corporation

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