Alternate Energy by Bob Bruninga WB4APR-Woodbridge Wireless Amateur Radio Club meeting

[Terry McCarty - WA5NTI]

Meeting Reminder - Thursday 7:30 pm @ Tall Oaks Center, 11298 Cotton 
Mill Dr, Lakeridge VA


Some background on Mr. Bruninga:

Robert Bruninga, WB4APR, is a registered Professional Engineer and a Senior Research Engineer with the U.S. Naval Academy. Mr. Bruninga started his radio career in the 1960's playing with radios and received his Novice amateur license in 1963. By the 1970's he was working with digital message transmission via radio and helped develop the AX.25 protocol used in radio packet messaging systems. Continuing his involvement in radio, he developed APRS which is incorporated in many radios for location tracking today. Mr. Bruninga is also an advocate and developer of alternate energy systems for private use and maintains a web page at http://www.aprs.org/alternative-energy.html with examples of systems he has developed as technology examples.

Below is a listing of Mr. Bruninga's accomplishments:

1960s - Playing with radio, xtal sets, Tubed CB sets and converted car radios
1963 - Novice: WN4APR with ARC-5 Command sets on 40/80 m
1973 - Playing with VHF FM in Japan and building radios
1975 - Wrote first RTTY BBS, later added phone, then RF ASCII
1978 - Worked with AMRAD group developing AX.25 in USA
1982 - wrote first data map program plotting navy ship positions on APPLE2 in Japan.
1983 - wrote VIC-20 VHF/HF BBS and Gateway and defined 200 Hz shift due to development of mods to dozens of surplus VADCG bell 103 modems with cross-county links to W0RPK, W9TD, and K7PYK on 10.149 MHz. Remained on the air 5 years through 1989 under the FCC STA for automatic packet HF operations. Developed larger system on the Commodore C-64 for BBS's used around the world through the 90's.
1984 - Developed CETS (Connectionless Emergency Traffic System) on Vic-20 and C-64 for digital packet comms in support of 100 mile cross country endurence run for AMRAD.
1986 - or so, used CETS for amateur packet radio support of the FEMA National Disaster Medical System exercises in DC area.
1988 - or so, ported CETS over to the new IBM AT PC and began to add maps and position plotting of stations.
1990 - or so. Began hand making maps of the USA for CETWS use.
1992 - Changed name of CETS to APRS and presented paper at DCC in Teaneck NJ where I first met Sproul Brothers who later wrote Mac and WinAPRS.
1994 - Developed MIM Module with N3MIM and Mic-E protocol. Proposed WIDEn-N digipeating
1996 - or so worked with TAPR to produce Mic-Encoder and Paccomm to indroduce callsign-substitution RELAY, WIDE, TRACE digipeating
1998 - Worked with Kantronics to introduced WIDEn-N digipeating and Kenwood to introduce the TH-D7 APRS walkie Talkie
2000 - Kenwood introduced the TM-D700 APRS mobile radio
2001 - Introduced APRS touch-tone, APRS reporting of IRLP and Echolink. Developed PCSAT-1.
2004 - Began the New-N Paradigm to rid APRS of all old legacy digipeating algorithms and focuse on user education for one standard
2005 - Began initiative to include operating Frequency in all packets.
2006 - Developed PCSAT-2 to fly on outside of ISS
2007 - Developed ANDE, RAFT and MARScom amateur satellites for deployment by Space Shuttle
2008 - Yaesu introduced the VX-8R APRS walkie-Talkie.
2008 - Introduced the Universal Ham Radio Text Messaging Initiative to tie together the two-dozen or more existing amateur radio text messaging capabilities.

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     Terry McCarty
    3t3 at comcast.net
        wa5nti

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