Oz Defence’s Remarkable Radio Breakthrough

Imagine a radio set that is capable of working as a cellular phone or an aircraft communications unit – or both simultaneously. In the commercial and military worlds, it could link networks that can’t communicate with each other so they can operate as one.

Traditionally we think of individual types of radio as being inherently different. We assume each one requires a completely different sort of receiver or transmitter. No longer. In Adelaide, Defence scientists have invented – and are patenting – a universal radio that will do all these things. By tuning in to transmissions, it will instantly configure itself.

Brian Andrews, who heads research into communications at the Defence Science and Technology’s Electronics Research Laboratory at Salisbury, calls the invention “the uncommitted radio”, or UCR. It demands a complete change in our traditional thinking if we even try to imagine what the UCR will be capable of doing.

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