Hello AMSAT friends:

Some of you that know me, know I have moved to Virginia Tech. I am in my second school year here, working harder than I ever have, and loving it. I've started a company with friends Joe Mitola (revered by many as the father of Software Radio and Cognitive Radio), Charles Clancy (director of my center where I am director of research), Jeff Reed (Wireless @ VT) and we are working on products to help wireless communications systems perform better (4G -> 5G). Virginia Tech encourages this kind of spinoff and has built growing set of tools to help.... It does help to actually be here to get the win!

So I am announcing my center is growing very rapidly. We are looking for engineers, scientists, mathematicians, computer scientists, and project managers to help our rapidly expanding research portfolio. Please take a look at the listings:

http://www.hume.ictas.vt.edu/vacancies

I am just about to take control of a 3U Cubesat from the USG government agency, NRO. It is a colony 1 bus. It will look like a Colony 1 when launched, but the insides will undergo transformation. As some of you may have seen, we have signed an MOU with AMSAT to do joint work and when this arrives, we will discuss doing this joint work.

We are exploring other, sooner projects now and hope we are successful in find ways to work together... I have a great team of budding spacecraft building participants and an active member in Space@VT:

http://www.space.vt.edu/

and the AMSAT announcement (which we used for our announcement for cooperation with Space@VT)

http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2013/amsat_and_virginia_tech_sign_c...

In Space @ VT we are working on a 1U and a 6U for a NASA Elana and hope to use the Colony for our 3U opportunity with students here and at the USNA. It is very exciting to be involved in all of this..

I'm also a member of the Wireless Center here; Wireless @ VT and we run a conference here at the end of the school year:

http://www.wireless.vt.edu/symposium/2013/

This year we are delighted to announcement that all my rowdy friends are coming over tonight....

GnuRadio Hackfest will be hosted by the Hume Center (my center) immediately following the Wireless Symposium.