Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Season's Greetings

Season's Greetings

I wanted to send some sort of holiday greeting to my friends and colleagues, but it’s difficult in today’s world to know exactly what to say without offending someone. So I met with my lawyer last night, and on advice I wish to say the following:

DEFINITIONS
“The Wisher” – Me.
“The Wishee” – You.
“The Wishes” – My Wishes, where the plural also implies the singular and vice versa where appropriate as inferred from the context.

GREETING
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best Wishes for [Read more…]

Watch the VLA Antennas Dance

TimeScapes 4K from Tom Lowe on Vimeo.

When I saw this short time-lapse video I was just blown away! Twenty seven 25 metre antennas of the Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico dancing in unison – and to music.

Thanks so much to Brigitte Bailleul (@Brigitte_Ba on Twitter) [Read more…]

New Asia-Pacific Editor for SatMagazine + MilsatMagazine

Well, I guess the time has arrived for me to come in from the cold and own up to who I really am!

I’m Dr Bob Gough, managing director of Carrick Communications Ltd, and I’ve just been appointed as the Asia-Pacific Editor for SatMagazine and MilsatMagazine. These are published monthly by the long-established Satnews Publishers, which is arguably the market leading publisher in the field. I’ll be contributing to the Insight and Focus features of both magazines.

I’m really excited by this because, as you’ll have realised, I’m very much into satellite communications and space, and I also like writing – I enjoy trying to paint pictures in readers’ minds.
I’ve got a feeling that this could become an all-consuming activity!

As part of this editorial position, I’m always on the lookout for newsworthy stories, [Read more…]


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