The Zen of Python
As an unashamed advocate of Python, I thought I would share my interpretation of some of these popular aphorisms as a series of blog posts. They were origin...
Dr Richard G. Ranson
IEEE Life Fellow
This is a new site for personal interests, that also documents previous (circa 2025) content contemporaneously recorded from Radio System Design UK Ltd.
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2026
Beautiful is better than ugly
Of course this is subjective, but having dealt with many different programming languages from Fortran (ugh), through Basic, Forth (!!) to Pascal, and C(++);...
Explicit is Better than Implicit
Another way of saying keep it simple. Someone with no prior knowledge of your program should still be able to understand what is happening in your code. Th...
Readability Counts
This is at the heart of my enthusiasm for Python. This is not in the sense of the elegant of the syntax Beautiful is Better than Ugly, though that must he...
Complex is better than complicated
Python has the complex data type built-in and handles complex arithmetic easily.
Web SDR
As an update to my introduction to Web SDR, I have noticed a growing number of KiwiSDRs that have 20 kHz of IQ bandwidth. This gives much more scope for exp...
DSP Foundations
The brilliant DSP Related website has recently launched an wonderful initiative, DSP Foundations.
Dot Notation
Python uses the idea of name_space, which explicitly gives all symbols unique names and compound names are delineated by a ‘.’ Hence dot notation.
2025
Lectures 2026
Planning started for 2026. The next course will be The Essentials of Radio Communications in Barcelona, April 13 - 15.
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This is the start, but not the beginning.
2024
Lectures 2024
Thanks to the organisers and many participants to the courses this year.
2023
Lectures 2023
Only one course this year.
2022
Lectures 2022
With the end of the COVID19 pandemic, very glad to get back to face to face training courses.
2020
RSD Historic News
A summary of all the news posts from the previous Radio System Design website.
Lectures 2020
New Hands on course for Software Defined Radio.
2019
Lectures 2019
Release of a new course, Essentials of Radio Communication. Previous courses have been pruned, condenses and amalgamated for an intense, comprehensive cour...
Lecture History
A brief summary of the training lectures offered.