Business Weekly

In the 1930’s Pye Telecom were developers and manufacturers of radio and TV receivers. Volume production expertise, short wave/VHF radio design skills, and new valve technologies enabled the company to act quickly to supply wireless solutions during the Second World War.

The relevance of this to today is that we need to nurture both production, and radio system design skills to be able to respond to the wireless requirements of local and national emergencies. In part, this emulates the American model in which the government is mandating that radio design and production capabilities, together with specifically allocated radio spectrum should be made available for ‘Public Protection’ and ‘Disaster Relief and Recovery’ in the UHF band, L Band and S Band.

History indicates that home grown skills and capabilities are often crucial in defending national and international interests. Enlightened spectral management and standards policy is an additional essential precondition.

This ‘May Day’ event is partly sponsored by Iridium, Sagentia, Cambridge Consultants and Plextek and brings together industry representatives from the two way radio, cellular, broadcasting and satellite sectors to:

• Provide a strategic overview of future radio requirements for public protection and disaster relief, locally, nationally and internationally; and to highlight the major business opportunities that are implicit in this process.
• Illustrate the continuing need for a close coupling between civilian and commercial radio, and between military and specialist radio design and production including the exploitation of crossover opportunities between radio and radar design.
• Suggest future potential opportunities for leveraging cellular design, and production scale economies in specialist, emergency, and business radio applications.
• Explore the future role of cellular operators, the broadcast community, satellite industry and two way and business radio community in specialist and emergency service provision.

Additionally we highlight the commonalities between radio transceiver and radar design and look at emerging radar based security applications and their potential integration with specialist radio system solutions.

We hope that you will be able to join us for an engaging and stimulating day of discussion, demonstrations and debate�at The Imperial War Museum. The day includes a tour of the museum and an opportunity to see and hear the famous Grace Spitfire in action in an aerobatic display. The day ends with a Networking Session.

Photography by Darren Harbar

If you are interested in attending this event please email admin@cambridgewireless.co.uk.

Click here to view the draft agenda

Events are free to Cambridge WIreless Members, but due to the popularity of this event, we are limiting the numbers of free places to two participants per organisation.

Tickets for non-members are 250 plus vat. Places at the May Day event are limited, and therefore ‘subject to availability’. To join Cambridge Wireless and attend all future events for free please visit: www.cambridgewireless.co.uk/sign-up

Sponsorship opportunities are available for the Grace Spitfire display and other parts of the event.

If you are interested in this sponsorship opportunity or wish to book a ‘display space’ at the event please email admin@cambridgewireless.co.uk to determine availability and charges. Please note that space is limited.

This day has been made possible by the dedicated efforts of the custodians of the Pye Telecom Historic Wireless Collection.

The Future Wide Area Wireless SIG is championed by Geoff Varrall of RTT Programmes, Stirling Essex of Espansivo and Graham Maile of Plextek.