2020 HONORS & AWARDS THE SARNOFF CITATION Robert Rouleau and Norman Pearl — For exceptional contributions of a technical or non-technical nature to the advancement of electronic communications. Robert T. Rouleau, VE2PY, started his career as an RF engineer at the Canadian Marconi Company. He became a founding partner of the Presud Group (Canada) and Sofran Corporation in the USA. Specializing in commercial real estate Pesud/Sofran built a CDN $400 million dollar portfolio consisting largely of shopping centers in Canada and the Southeastern U.S. While continuing as a partner in Presud, he founded Dataradio Inc. a firm specializing in high reliability wireless data communication products. He authored the book Packet Radio published in 1981, which outlined and explained the principles of digital wireless communication that serve as the basis of modern cellular systems. He took Dataradio from a two person start-up business to a segment leading firm with over 200 employees when it was sold to Calamp in 2006. He personally designed the communications system used by NASA on the successful 1995 Mars exploration mission.
Minnesota. During most of that period, Mr. Pearl served as vice president of engineering, while the job evolved from hardware design and software, to training and technical support, sales, FCC/IC type approvals, system design, project management, etc. Mr. Pearl holds three U.S. and two Canadian patents for remote online diagnostics and an adaptive duty-cycle management method (to meet RF exposure rules). He currently operates a Marine Traffic AIS receiving station #1481 from his sailboat. He is district education officer with Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons (CPS-ECP) and an instructor / examiner for the maritime radio Restricted Operator Certificate.
THE VIVIAN CARR AWARD Emily Calandrelli — In recognition of an outstanding woman’s achievements in the wireless industry.
Mr. Rouleau served on the board of Canlyte/Genlyte until 2006 when it was acquired by Philips. He serves on the board of Stelvio Inc., a Montreal based software firm specializing in auto accident claim management, and on the board of iSentium LLC.
Emily Calandrelli, KD8PKR, is the star and Co-Executive Producer of Netflix’s pre-school series Emily’s Wonder Lab that features STEAM related children’s experiments and entertaining activities. Broadcast in all of Netflix’s 190 countries, “Emily’s Wonder Lab” was the first ever live-action Netflix original series for kids. Emily is also is an executive producer and an Emmy nominated host of FOX’s Xploration Outer Space and a correspondent on Netflix’s Bill Nye Saves The World.
Norman Pearl, VE2BQS, received a B.Eng. and M.B.A. He was born and raised in Montreal, Canada, and continues to reside there. He enrolled in “code and theory” courses at the Montreal Amateur Radio Club while in junior college, and obtained his Amateur Radio Operator’s license in April, 1974. He met Robert Rouleau, Fred Basserman, et al on the local 2M repeater, then moved up to 220 MHz where it was quieter.
Named to Adweek’s “11 Celebrities and Influencers Raising the Bar for Creativity in 2017,” Emily is also an accomplished writer and speaker on the topics of space exploration, scientific literacy, and equality. Her chapter book series, The Ada Lace Adventures, center around an eightyear-old girl with a knack for science, math, and solving mysteries with technology; the series debuted in August, 2017. The second book in the series, Ada Lace: Sees Red, was included in the National Science Teachers Association’s list of best STEM books for 2018.
He became interested in personal computers and eventually packet radio while studying Electrical Engineering at McGill University. He obtained Amateur Digital Radio Operator’s Certificate number 8 in November 1978 (Dr. DeMercado already had certificate #1). The digital certificate was discontinued in 2000, and all holders were upgraded to 12WPM Advanced Amateur.
Emily has presented on the importance of science literacy, the benefits of space exploration, and the challenges for women in STEM careers for clients including Google, Pixar, MIT, Texas Instruments, CERN as well as dozens of K-12 schools across the nation. Her first two TEDx talks, I Don’t Do Math and Space Exploration Is The Worst, have garnered over one million views on YouTube.
He started Dataradio with Robert Rouleau in 1981 while completing his M.B.A. degree program. After demonstrating their first product at Telecom83 in Geneva, the company grew from two in Montreal to over 200 people, spread between Montreal, Quebec; Atlanta, Georgia; and Waseca,
Emily received a B.S.M.E.A.E. from West Virginia University, and an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics and an M.S. in Technology and Policy both from MIT. Through her work, she wants to make science and space exploration relatable, more welcoming, and more exciting than ever before in history. www.radioclubofamerica.org | FALL 2020 PROCEEDINGS
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