David C Brown CEng MIEE

I am a retired Senior Experimental Officer at Jodrell Bank Observatory which is part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
in the School of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Manchester.

I was responsible for the maintainance of the aging MERLIN correlator.

With Dr Mike Bentley I designed the electronic parts of the optical IF
links designed by the Fibre Optic Group at Jodrell Bank for ALMA

My last design work was on the digital parts of eMERLIN including liasing
with the team at DRAO at Penticton in British Columbia who are building a
WIDAR correlator for eMERLIN and with the EVLA team at NRAO who
are kindly allowing us to use some of their designs

Technical Stuff

Publications

R Spencer, R McCool, B Anderson, D Brown, M Bentley
Data Transmission Systems: Lessons for SKA
Journal for Experimental Astronomy (EXPA). June 2004 Vol 17, Numbers 1-3 pp221 - 228
(Special issue on SKA technology.) link

Outside interests

Compete for the Oddfellow's Arms in the Sett Valley Quiz League
( and a member of the Jodrell Bank Team which defeated the Royal Literary Society
in the 2004 series of "University Challenge- The Professionals")

Season ticket holder at Macclesfield Town Football Club whose message board is here

Contact Information

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