Lectures 2027
Planning is starting for lectures in 2027. The next course will be The Essentials of Radio Communications with the venue TBD.
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Lectures
Lectures 2026
In 2026 both Essentials of Radio Communications and Hands on SDR courses were run with 20 participants in total.
Lectures 2024
Thanks to the organisers and many participants to the courses this year.
Lectures 2023
Only one course this year.
Lectures 2022
With the end of the COVID19 pandemic, very glad to get back to face to face training courses.
Lectures 2020
New Hands on course for Software Defined Radio.
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.
Python
Now is better than never
I am thinking here of the immediate interactive nature of the interpreter.
In the face of ambiguity, avoid the temptation to guess
It seems to me that Python incorporates all the best bits of other computer languages. The ones that deserve highlighting in this context are the various co...
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...
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.
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.
News
Lectures 2027
Planning is starting for lectures in 2027. The next course will be The Essentials of Radio Communications with the venue TBD.
EuMW 2026
I was pleased to attend EuMW in London for the first time in several years. The Excel Centre is as busy as ever, and the Elizabeth Line makes it more accees...
Lectures 2026
In 2026 both Essentials of Radio Communications and Hands on SDR courses were run with 20 participants in total.
RSD Historic News
A summary of all the news posts from the previous Radio System Design website.
Lecture History
A brief summary of the training lectures offered.
SDR
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 a wonderful initiative, DSP Foundations.