Greg Charvat Returns With A Book! - Laboratory Literature Laureate

Welcome back, Dr Greg Charvat! Greg was on the show about a year ago, talking about his startup, Butterfly Network and his MIT short course on the RADAR.

• Greg has a new book that is about to be released! It's called "Small and Short-Range Radar Systems". You can pre-order a copy for 20% off the coupon code AJM33.
• The book has practical approaches and example data sets.
• Greg has been celebrating MSU winning the Rose Bowl...even though most nerds don't know much about sports.
• The popular MIT short course is also offered to professionals in June
• Greg and Chris visited Hamvention 2013 together where Greg bought his R390 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVKLEGzQdNk
• Greg's experiments and hacking of the R390 will be featured in QST magazine in March.
• Jack Ganssle did a review of a 1946 Oscilloscope
• CRT tubes enabled RADAR. Something something thermionic rf current.
• Greg enjoyed the Antique Wireless Association's coverage of The Titanic's Radio Transmitter.
• Another history item, Greg has been reading The Power Makers which is all about early grid setup and power delivery.
• While most people think of Tesla for AC, his biggest contribution was inductive motors. Now it's swinging back to DC delivery of power with DC transmission.
• Even white goods are moving back to DC power, with some fridges using a DC power bus and an inverter going to an AC induction motor to drive a compressor.
• Greg's book started at the IEEE Phased Array symposium when he met someone from CRC Press.
• Instead of working on antique watches at night, his wife encouraged him to work on the book. The entire start-to-finish was 3 years.
• When writing a book...write for yourself.
• The Coffee Can (Successive Approximation) Radar project covered in the MIT short course is now a kit! Made by Quonset microwave. A little pricey but easier than sourcing everything yourself, including some soon obsolete components.
• Automotive radar is an entire chapter in the book and are a large area of interest in the next few years. Some of these operate at 24GHz, 77GHz (!)
• Sensors too! RADAR is a great way to bounce low energy signals back to a network.
• Greg has been advising a startup called Fybr (c'mon people, use your e's!). They make networked sensors for city wide parking space detection (and charging for parking).
• The NSA leak included a hardware catalog with tons of interesting gadgets. The ANGRYNEIGHBOR used RADAR to bounce some of these signals back to a base station for collection/networking. Crazy stuff!
• The Space Fence shut down as part of the sequester, but was an awesome way to detect space objects. You could listen on the ham bands.
• While at Lincoln Lab, Greg got to work on the huge Millstone Hill RADAR array. 2.5MW of output power
• Much smaller, cheaper and available to the public, there is a push to use RTL-SDR dongles to do RADAR.
• Greg is editing a book series about