12.21.09
Quick Links 12/21
(link) Tennessee Tech has a $800k CR project starting.
Congressman Bart Gordon has announced that he was able to secure funding for Tennessee Tech University to help design innovative radios for military use. TTU’s Cognitive Radio Institute will receive $800,000, which will be used to design radio experimental models and system test-beds that are resistant to conventional jamming techniques.
I think this is the lab.
(link) “Government Controlled Radio” - This Ham doesn’t like where CR is heading (which is to allow CR in the Ham bands)
So a new STA is being prepared to study CR on the Ham bands. This may be a funded research project. Is it legal? Well an educational institution can use Ham radio and be paid. My reading was always that this exception was to teach Ham Radio licenses classes or basic radio technology. Maybe paid research should get its own frequencies and license?
But what’s in it for Ham Radio? A new co-user of our spectrum? Increased noise floor from the Spread Spectrum, SDR, and CR modes of operation? The end of spinning the dial and listening for a random CQ? If you are not transmitting the CR does not hear you and takes the band. If the QRM is at the DX end and the CR cannot hear other users what then? Maybe it will be smart enough to have the DX station inform it of local QRM? Pretty smart radio, eh?
