I see it as a good opportunity. It fits in with so many things including spectrum sharing which is in our future if we want to keep access to our secondary allocations. It also shows members that we are once again interested in serious radio science. 73 Ria N2RJ On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 3:03 PM Minster, David NA2AA (CEO) < dminster@arrl.org> wrote:
This is an FYI.
David Siddall was approached by Michael Marcus, N3JMM with regards to a large grant from NSF that Northeastern University is applying for.
Part of what they’re looking to do involves SDR’s and students. Michael asked for ARRL to provide a letter stating:
*NASCE will collaborate with the ARRL, in introducing students to spectrum sharing issues by developing software for a commercial SDR model to make it operate as a cognitive radio in Amateur Radio Service allocations with several parameters under user control. NASCE will lend several of these units to high school and university amateur radio clubs with suggested experiments to test spectrum sharing under real world conditions.*
It is my intention to provide NASCE with such a letter. Note: There is a serious time crunch on getting them the response.
If we decide later that this is not going in a direction that we support, we can back out. However, it is my view that we would not want to miss the opportunity to support the grant with simply a letter. I suspect that members would take this as being lazy on our behalf.
Thoughts before I pull the trigger?
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