{"id":35538,"date":"2019-01-17T07:24:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T11:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=35538"},"modified":"2019-01-17T07:24:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T11:24:59","slug":"m-i-t-radio-society-public-lectures-covering-all-aspects-of-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/m-i-t-radio-society-public-lectures-covering-all-aspects-of-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"M.I.T. Radio Society: Public lectures covering all aspects of radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MIT-QSL.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35610\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MIT-QSL.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MIT-QSL.png 479w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MIT-QSL-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Jennifer Waits, who notes that The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radio Society (W1MX) and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) are presenting a series of radio-related lectures covering a wide array of topics, <em>&#8220;from the design of modern wireless communications systems and 5G, to software defined radio and satellite communications, to shortwave radio propagation, space weather, Radio Astronomy and more.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The public lectures are announced here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/iap\/ns313.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/student.mit.edu\/iap\/ns313.html\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All lectures are streamed live and archived <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLWwWW7rc6eKh8xfLl4Pac7W9l54h7oj-B&amp;disable_polymer=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer notes that one of the most recent lectures focuses on shortwave radio and propagation:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dRpXiwS41Z4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dRpXiwS41Z4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to watch on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLWwWW7rc6eKh8xfLl4Pac7W9l54h7oj-B&amp;disable_polymer=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view the entire lecture playlist.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the tip, Jennifer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jennifer Waits, who notes that The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radio Society (W1MX) and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) are presenting a series of radio-related lectures covering a wide array of topics, &#8220;from the design of modern wireless communications systems and 5G, to software defined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3,43,304],"tags":[7541,7543,7542],"class_list":["post-35538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-videos","tag-mit","tag-mit-radio-society","tag-w1mx"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9fc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41755,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/wrmis-origins-in-scituate-ma\/","url_meta":{"origin":35538,"position":0},"title":"WRMI&#8217;s origins in Scituate, MA","author":"Thomas","date":"January 27, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: The Patriot Ledger) WHAT IS IT? 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