Dr. Robert Steven Owor
Thank you very much sir,
I will buy the book and try to contact our people below. Our major problem has been books and circuit boards but alos system of government.
Once we can produce and design these circuits in considerable amounts - problem will be solved for sure.I am involved myself and we can't fail.
No I argue Uganbans not to get frustarted. Yes that is how Uganda and Ugandans work - for us we have made a deeper collobrative study and we have found a way of going around these problems. Intractive Communication networks is one of them and since no has a monopoly on it any body who tries to struggle agianst the wind will be bypassed.
It is only a beginning- so stick out, there are a lot of people who need direction. Here I must also argue that we are going to use the care free atomsphere of our institutions to reach our goals. This is the contardiction which power holder do not and will never grasp.
thank you very much sir,
Bwanika
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Mmwami Bwanika,
Thanks for your reply. Actually there a number of Ugandans who are quite
well versed with some of the challenges you are facing. Some of them are
in Uganda and others are now abroad.
Many of the Engineers either at UTV, Uganda Telecoms or Electricity
Authorities (former UEB) are highly trained theoretically and
practically. I can mention a few names like Kazinduki (A Satellite
Transmission Engineer, who for a long time managed Mpoma even with very
few spares coming in), Eng. Mukasa (A Satellite and Radio Communications
Engineer), Eng. Muskautu (A Switching Expert), Eng. Miriam Wambuzi
(Exchange, Transmission and Switching Expert), Eng. Dan Naigambi
(Electrical and Electronics practical whiz, including solar powered
systems), Eng. Mayanja (power systems) etc. Many of these Engineers have
been trained right in the production lines of these systems such as at
Alcatel Telecoms, AT&T, INTELSAT, Fujitsu, SONY, Motorola, Intel,
Siemens to mention but a few.
The problem is that they becme frustrated sometimes and even resort to
"quorum". Some have now joined the private sector and are doing very
well. Yet sadly some of the most brillaint ones have simply given up and
swallow more of the "same" than is useful to either themselves or their
country. This is because after the high training, they go back home with
great ambition only to be frustrated by circumstances.
Also the way Digital Electronics courses are taught in classroms in
Universities lends itself to passing the exams well if you study hard.
When however you are given a logic probe, transistors, an oscilloscope
and a multimeter, plus a bunch of capacitors, batteries, transistors and
a family of logic circuits then one begins to sweat!!!!!
In my sufferings with circuits which do not work, I found a good book
which I recommend to anyone who perhaps might be as unfortunate as I
was. It is called Practical Electronics for Inventors by Paul Schertz
published by McGraw-Hill. This books guides anyone who is struggling to
develop circuitry for a new electronic device without delving into
advanced Physics right from the start. It is a good staring point.
Wish you the best
Dr. Robert Steven Owor
>>> "dbbwanika db" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/08/04 9:38 AM >>>
Dr. Robert Steven Owor
My understanding is that most of the mediums mentioned below are being
used on given levels.
The problem though as of now is affordability we are focusing on.
My colleague and I are looking into a possibility of starting to
manufacture affordable transponders to meet Uganda consumer standards.
We have discussed this issue quite exhaustively and human resources we
have.
Our strategy so far is to diversify from computation now that digitised
radio and television sets are coming on the market with universal
service bus connection that can make going around configuration
problems.
This is a problem since our friends who have been educated and educating
us in these fields are still very few and still lack hands on skills.
One of our major problem is getting engineering literature which is a
fra bigger problem on these items particularly on digital circuits
design and the circuits themselves which is very rear commodity in
Uganda.
We also need suppliers of assorted items but that will be disccused
later.
I will be contacting you in due course on this very issue as we progress
with our programme since we want to make it very easy to watch TV.
I will soon be venturing my pasion- nature filming that could be tested
here.
Thank you sir,
Bwanika.
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