GPS games @ Covilhã

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You are invited to participate in this event by the IEEE PT ComSoc Chapter and the IEEE PT VTS Chapter, and the Instituto de Telecomunicações, held at UBIMEDICAL (Estrada Municipal - this is 10 minutes walking from the Health Sciences Faculty of UBI, and five minutes walking from Intermarché), Covilhã, Universidade da Beira Interior, Covihã, Portugal.

It is an introduction to GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) within the amateur radio environment, and particularly its usage for APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting System). The lecture provides lots of examples -sometimes funny, sometimes worrying. The speaker's experience with different types of inexpensive GNSS (GPS) receivers will be presented by talk & photos, as well as by displaying a few real devices in a simulated demo. An outdoor test also possible.


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  • Estrada Municipal 506
  • Lab. Telecomunicações - IT
  • Covilhã, Centro
  • Portugal 6200-284
  • Building: UBIMEDICAL
  • Room Number: Lab. 1.11
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  • Luís Bernardo, lflb@fct.unl.pt

  • Co-sponsored by Instituto de Telecomunicações
  • Starts 06 April 2026 11:00 PM UTC
  • Ends 19 April 2026 11:00 PM UTC
  • No Admission Charge

  Speakers

Miroslav Skoric of Radio-club "Novi Sad"

Topic:

Amateur Radio: "GPS games"

A joint event of the IEEE ComSoc PT Chapter, the IEEE VTS PT Chapter, the IEEE Seattle Section Jt. ComSoc/VTS/BTS/IT/ITS Chapter and the Instituto de Telecomunicações.

Biography:

Miroslav Skoric has more than three decades of experience in computer network administration and system maintenance (private and governmental sector, retired since 1.1.2018). Also worked in metal industry, oil industry, publishing. Continual active practice in amateur radio services since 1989: Licensed ‘ham’ radio operator using call sign YT7MPB; ex-CN2MPB (Morocco); ex-TO0MPB (Reunion Island, France); ex-J41MPB (Greece), ex-3B8YT (Mauritius), ex-II1CIT (Italy), ex-CR6MPB (Portugal). He voluntarily served as the secretary of SRV (Amateur Radio Union of Vojvodina province, northern Serbia) in two terms, 1996-1998 and 2019-2021, as well as the secretary of Radio Club “Novi Sad” for the class of 2019-2020. Previously, he served as the secretary of Radio Club “Bosko Buha” (1994-1995) and Radio Club “Pane Djukic” (1999-2002). He has broad experience in administering amateur radio bulletin board systems since early nineties (DOS, Windows and Linux platforms) at VHF/HF radio frequencies and Internet connection.

His interests in radio are heavily centered on emergency communications and industries that support amateur & business radio services. Diplomas in Labor Management Engineering (1989) and in Business Computing (1995). Postgraduate studies in Computer Science. Senior Member of IEEE Austria Section. Full member of IEEE MOVE radio club. Teaching experience includes classes in local high-school amateur radio clubs; technical paper presentations in domestic and international events; tutorials & workshops on the amateur radio in engineering education, magazine/journal articles, and ~200 pages in five book chapters (IGI Global, Springer).

He had been actively engaged as a volunteer speaker offering self-sponsored visiting tours to India and other countries. Radio instruments & accessory travel with him to provide practical demo and experimentation. He is an active promoter of ham radio communications among students & teachers at University of Novi Sad, Serbia and elsewhere. Social activities through membership in IEEE Communications Society (incl. RCC and CNOM), IEEE Computer Society (incl. TCCC and TCSP), IEEE Education Society, IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society, ARRL (USA), RSGB (UK), RAC (Canada), and others. He posted ~1000 photos & captions to his QRZ.com amateur radio profile (https://www.qrz.com/db/YT7MPB), and 250+ video clips to his LinkedIn page (https://www.linkedin.com/in/miroslavskoric/).

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Address:Serbia & Montenegro




Agenda

10:00am Arrival and welcome to participants

10:30am Setting up radio devices

11:00am Miroslav Skoric, "GPS games"

12:10 Lunch break

(there will be afternoon activities)


We will gather together between 10:00 and 10:30, then prepare the radio devices, on the garden, and start the talk at 11:00am