Honour for wind up radio inventor

The BBC reports that the inventor of the wind-up radio Trevor Baylis is to be presented with an Honorary Doctorate by Northampton University.

His wind-up radio made communications available to people across Africa without access to electricity and won a BBC Design Award.

Read the BBC report at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/
8058000.stm

Trevor Bayliss is an Honorary member of the RSGB and the picture on the right shows him at the 2007 RSGB AGM dinner with the then RSGB Amateur Radio Manager Sylvia Manco 2E1CYL and members of the Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society (CARS)

From left to right Murray G6JYB, Sylvia 2E1CYL (RSGB HQ), Trevor Baylis OBE, Clive G1EUC, Anthony M1FDE

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