University days

1967-70 I was an electronics student at Liverpool University. The photo from 1970 shows our year. 

As I recall we had 109 students in our year with just one woman and I don't think she is even in the photo!

To think I had hair then 😄.  I am on the left a few rows back. Perhaps you can spot me?  Happy days.

By the way, I chose Liverpool as it had the best amateur radio society (G3OUL) at the time! I don't think it is there now?

When I was there Liverpool University had about 7000 students. It now has about 22000 .

1970 university photo - NOT amateur radio

It seems hard to believe that this photo is 52 years old. It was taken in 1970 in my final year.  In those days I had hair!! 

St Johns, Cambridge - NOT amateur radio

The colleges at Cambridge University are always worth a visit, but they look so good in spring. This was the view of St Johns this afternoon. We just missed the rain.

University of Liverpool - NOT amateur radio

"As a graduate from the department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology you are invited to share your career insights with students at an informal careers event on Tuesday 21 March 2017, from 5pm to 7pm at the Liverpool Campus....."

From LinkedIn.

No, I actually did Honours Electronics! If I talked they might be a bit confused.

University of Liverpool on-line courses

Very many years ago (1967-1970) I was an undergraduate student studying Electronics at the University of Liverpool.  Since those days, the Department has become heavily involved with on-line learning as reported by the Southgate Amateur Radio News page. This course could suit someone needing a grounding in electronics. I think there is some (easy-ish) maths. To do the honours degree course we had to do maths to degree level. I found this very hard.

Proving how small the world is, one of our close friends in the village is the brother of my personal tutor at university. The brother is now a visiting professor at Liverpool. I believe my old tutor still works at the university as an emeritus professor.

A new Massive Open On-line Course (MOOC) covers Analogue/Digital Electronics, AC/DC Circuits, Electromechanics and an introduction to C programming.
Over the last few months here at Liverpool we have been putting together a MOOC (Massive Open On-line Course) which introduces aspects of electrical engineering. The course starts in September, but you can sign up now. It's free and there are no gimmicks.
The link to the MOOC info is here: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/electrify
Any ideas on how to make this course better are welcome.
Matt O’Rourke
MOOC developer
Liverpool University On-line Electrical Engineering Course

Dutch online SDR now has 500kHz

The Twente University online SDR in The Netherlands has now got a 500kHz receiver. It works well and SM6BHZ's SSB beacon was coming through very well a few moments ago.