ARRL Member Tops Field in Worldwide Design Competition
NEWINGTON, CT, Jul 5, 2001--ARRL member Indranil "Kitchu"
Majumdar, VU2KFR, of Calcutta, India, is the overall winner of the Texas
Instruments Analog Design
Challenge. The competition carries a $100,000 top prize. An independent
panel judged Majumdar to be the overall winner as well as the winner for Asia.
A member of the Calcutta VHF
Amateur Radio Society, Majumdar won the top prize for designing a railway
collision-avoidance system. His design incorporated a variety of Texas
Instruments' power-management, interface, RF, logic and microcontroller
products. The TI competition called on engineers to come up with real-world
designs that utilized Texas Instruments devices.
Texas Instruments said that
Majumdar's Railway Collision Avoidance System 2001, or RACAS, "uses paired
digital transponders for radio ranging and quasi-packet connectivity."
Licensed since 1984, Majumdar is
a founding member of the Calcutta VHF Amateur Radio Society and a life member.
He's been an ARRL member since 1989. He's also a member of the Amateur Radio
Society of India and of IEEE.
Majumdar was active during the
Orissa cyclone disaster operation in 1999 and took part in the Sagar mobile
operation last year (see "Sagar 2000: Public Service in India," QST, May 2001, written by Kitchu's
brother, Nilanjan "Horey" Majumdar, VU2HFR). In addition to public service and
VHF and satellite activities, he's an avid DXer and HF CW, PSK31, and
digital-mode operator.--thanks to CVARS
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