With 25 years experience in Electrical Engineering, 27 years in RF communication, 11 years in Aerospace and 6 years with UAVs, John brings experience to help you close the RF link in your next project.
Past efforts include:
- Complete analysis of a 1,100 mile VHF multiple hop digital relay from Georgia to Maine. Analysis includes terrain obstacles based on SRTM elevation data.
- Design of 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz radio systems for a DARPA project featuring Freewave 115 kbps modems and custom antennas for small VTOL UAV.
- Design of command and video RF links for NASA Wallops Island project featuring VTOL UAV and ground station components.
- Design of 2400 MHz radio system featuring Microhard Spectra series of Ethernet modems and custom antennas.
Current projects:
- Ridge diffraction study of VHF propagation in support of volunteer communications for trail horse riding event.
- Study of equipping a small winged UAV with 137 and 300 MHz downward beam antenna system.
Achievements:
- Patent US10468743B2: Mast Mountable Antenna (The J-pole antenna is fixed)
- Patent USD798847S1: Design patent related to above.
- Patent US9383439B2: Design of detector to confirm conductivity of window thin-film coverings.