Farhan Visits Northern Virginia En Route to FDIM (Videos to Follow)

Mike KD4MM, Farhan VU2ESE and Dean KK4DAS

Farhan VU2ESE was in Northern Virginia this week, on his way to the Four Days in May Event at the Dayton Hamvention.   We had a great visit with Farhan.  We took him out to the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology where he shared with the students tribal wisdom about building CubeSats and about building simple direct conversion receivers.  Farhan's use of direct conversion receivers to teach homebrewing to students in Hyderabad inspired our efforts in Northern Virginia.  We often referred to Farhan when speaking to the students here, so it was really great to give them a chance to talk to him directly. 

From the high school we went to the local restaurant at which Vienna Wireless has its weekly lunch. Many of the people at this lunch are also members of the VWS makers group.  This was a lot of fun. 

Don KM4UDX even brought in his somewhat eccentric build of the uBITX transceiver designed by Farhan.  Don's rig is labeled "The uBITX of Life."  It has also been called "The Franken-uBITX." Whatever the name, Farhan was clearly pleased to see Don's handiwork. 

I shot a lot of video during Farhan's visit (last time I failed to do this and regretted it).  I will put these videos up on the SolderSmoke YouTube channel during the days ahead. 

Thanks Farhan!