The Roboticist Who Liked Rock and Roll so Much to Build Pirate Radio
Ing. Željko Mogoroš is the leader of the Moon rover team from AU Vidulini group, the latest member of our GLXP Team Synergy Moon.
He is an old-style expert and and I had to put some effort to get his full biography. This means, we could have endless talks on technology, but he avoided to talk much about himself personally.
At last, I had to put a "little administrative force" to squeeze-out his bio for our documentation.
Here's his translated text, just slightly adapted for international readers. Enjoy reading between lines to discover his extraordinary personality!
I was born 1947 in small industrial town Belišće in Croatian inlands, in after-WWII Yugoslavia.
When I was 12 years old on the attic of our house I have found parts of "detector", a simple radio instrument that was used by my brother and uncle during WW II to listen to BBC Radio during the Nazi occupation. In a short time I have put parts quickly together - and it was working! This piece of electronics carved my future.
I became a member "Nikola Tesla" Radio Club in Valpovo. From the old American military trasmitters we took parts and made our own short-wave radio stations.
Sometimes around 1962 I have started working on my mid-wave tramsmitter which helped me to occasionally broadcast rock and roll music for my fellow citizens.
After that I have built electric guitars and amplifiers for my future band.
Here I'd love to mention my cousins Josip and Ivo, most probably pioneers of radio technology and amplified guitars in neighbourhood of my born town. At the end of 40s in their house they were playing their own built radio and Hawaian guitars the they have built by themselves.
The highchool for mechanic works I have graduated in 1966 and after that 1st degree of electronics in Osijek.
In the year 1969 I have moved to Germany where I worked for ITT Schaub Lorenz -- today under the hood of Alcatel corporation -- in R&D lab for navigation and remote directed links. Among others I have colaborated in developing of exit stage of transmitter for Apollo Program.
In the year 1980 I have exibited in Rijeka on the Rast Yu Innovation Exhibition my wireless selective call-system of transmitter-pager. The biggest electronic company in Croatia of that time RIZ (today humble Elkom elektronika from Zagreb) has bought my whole developing project. With the money earned I have bought expensive professional HiFreq measuring gear for my own lab.
Under the brand Microset telekomunikacije we produced the whole palette of telecom devices in small series.
In the year 1986 the company Patent from Osijek purchased my whole production, and I worked there as a chief of developing team for all products, including telecommunications. In the year 1991 all the company moves from continental Croatia to Istria peninsula to continue with production, but not for the long time. War has broken in former Yugoslavia, and the market for out products was closed.
In the meantime I have developed amplifier for 900 MHz which was built to wireless telephone sets.
The year 2002 gave me a job in Novigrad, tiny ild town on western Istria Adriatic seashore. Here Solaris company manufactures photovoltaic modules. There I have developed my own robotic blow torch machine for soldering of solar cells.
In the year 2004 back to continent again.
The agriculture and food corporation PPK Valpovo established R&D lab. I was the leader of that department up to year 2008 and retirement, whe I have decided to come back and permanently settle in Istria.
At last, in year 2006 my grandson and I had on the innovations show our first small remote controlled, partly autonomous solar robot. It had navigation camera and robotic hand. At that time this piece of work nobody noticed, but we knew it's real value, and we still have enthusiasm to push such systems to greater sofistication.
The last sentence means: We will do anything necessary to make our contribution to the success of the team in Google Lunar X Prize.
I just can't help myself not to adore this kind of humble, and yet stubbornly motivated personality!
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