Paul M HawkinsPaul has spent his whole career working in radio communications. He joined the British Post Office International Telecommunication service in 1967 working at Dorchester Radio Station, then Goonhilly Satellite Station and finally Bearley HF receiving tation. From 1980-83 he worked as an RF design engineer in the USA. Between 1983 and 2013 Paul worked for the Thales Company in England, where as a Technical Specialist, he led the design of antennas and communication systems for Submarines, Ships and Land Mobile Vehicles. Paul retired from full time employment in 2014. Radio and its history is a personal interest of Paul and he has published a number of articles in the vintage wireless press, two conference papers for the IEE and a booklet. He has also given lectures to various groups about radio telecommunications history, the most notable of these being at the IEE '100 Years of Wireless' conference in 1995. More recently he gave a lecture on the subject of "Marconi Beam Wireless Stations" at a conference in Bologna Italy, in the presence of Princess Elettra Marconi, the daughter of Guglielmo Marconi. Read More Read Less