06/26/2024
Are you interested in Arduino? Don't miss our presentation by Glen Popiel at the July 8th meeting! Everyone is welcome!
7pm at Atoka Town Hall
Glen Popiel is the author of ARRL’s “Arduino for Ham Radio” series of books, along with ARRL’s“High Speed Multimedia for Amateur Radio”. He is also the author of Elektor’s“Arduino for Radio Amateur Applications” along with numerous QST and other magazine articles and product reviews. Newly retired, he was a Network Engineer and Technology Consultant for HTC Global Services at Memphis Light Gas and Water. First published in Kilobaud Microcomputing in 1979 for circuits he designed for the RCA 1802 microprocessor, he continues to work with microcontrollers and their uses in amateur radio.
Always taking things apart (and sometimes even getting them to work again afterwards), he discovered electronics in high school and has never looked back. As a teenager, he had one of the first true “home computers”, a Digital Equipment (DEC) PDP-8 minicomputer (complete with state-of-the-art Model 35 Teletype) in his bedroom that he and his friends salvaged from the scrap heap. Over his 40+ year career, he has worked for such companies as WCMQ-AM/FM, General Dynamics, Control Data Corporation, Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Government Research Division, Medlab Hospital Laboratory Computer Systems, the Mississippi Department of Education, and MLGW, including radio and military turbojet research data acquisition and control systems.
Since discovering the Arduino over ten years ago, he has developed a passion for this powerful, inexpensive microcontroller and has given a number of seminars and hamfest forums on the subject of the Arduino and Open Source. He is a member of the Olive Branch Amateur Radio Club (OBARC), the Chickasaw Amateur Radio Association, QRP Amateur Radio Club International (QRP-ARCI), and the QRP Skunkwerks, a design team of fellow hams and Arduino enthusiasts who have succeeded in getting the JT65 digital mode working natively on a CW-only (so they thought) QRP Transceiver.
Glen is also a former cat show judge and has exhibited Maine C**n cats all over the country, with the highlight being a Best in Show at Madison Square Garden in 1989. Soon to be moving to Conway, AR, he continues to create fun and exciting new Arduino projects for amateur radio with his champion Maine C**n show cats and lab companions, Angel, Shadow, and Sasquatch.
