Two Fascinating Youtube talks

The first talk is a conventional amateur radio talk given at the Pennine Ham club on the QMX+ transceiver. This features Hans Summers (QRP Labs) and Martin Butler (ICQ Podcast) talking about the QMX+. In the talk Martin goes through the build process whilst talking to Hans and the Hans talks about the design of the transceiver. I have heard many talks about the QMX+ and even taken part in one, but I still learned new things and the practical element of the video may well give you confidence to build your own.

The video is at https://youtu.be/mJvpNADFmrg?si=Fd07vgxlujARSwkj

The second one is the IET AF Harvey lecture on "Dynamic Control of Light Waves with Atomically Thin Optoelectronic Devices - Exploring how quantum scale materials are redefining the way we shape, direct and control light. Please don't be put off by the title. This is a fascinating talk about the future of optics. One particular example is the fabrication of flat plate lenses using nano particles. Skate over the fractions that you do not understand and you will get to even more fascinating example of where technology is going. When you get to the Q&A you will see discussion of the importance of this to radio systems with th convergence of radio and optics.

https://www.youtube.com/live/K9F5mW58Phg?si=cZ73lE20QS3pl4so

If it has moved off the Youtube live site I will post a link the the IET main site.

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