User:Splash

New articles and major rewrites

• University of Bristol
  • Academic dress of the University of Bristol
  • Degrees of the University of Bristol (now trimmed and merged into main article)
  • List of University of Bristol alumni (actually, I exported this from the original Uni article)
  • Eric Thomas (academic)
  • John Kingman
  • Category:University of Bristol
  • Category:People associated with the University of Bristol
• Office for Fair Access
• Master of Engineering
• Constellation diagram
• Phase-shift keying
• Baseband
• Modulation index
• Phase modulation
• Quadrature amplitude modulation
• Space–time code
• Space–time block code
• Space–time trellis code (stub)
• Differential space–time code (stub)
• RC circuit
• RL circuit
• Atef El-Tayeb (stub)
• Gerard J. Foschini
• Hamid Jafarkhani
• Bluetooth Special Interest Group (it was a stub for 3.5 years!)
• Worldwide Universities Network
  • Template:Worldwide Universities Network listbox
  • Category:Worldwide Universities Network
• Barnyard (2006 film)
• Statistics Commission
• Institute of Statisticians (superstub)
• Grant-in-aid (stub)
• BTG
• Council for Industry and Higher Education
• Peter Whittle
• Patricia Broadfoot
• Rayleigh fading (spent most of its life as a redirect!)
• Electronic Travel Authority
• Vehicular Technology Conference (and VTC to dab it with a school)
• International Conference on Communications
• Global Communications Conference
• International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
• Consolidation bill
• Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000
• Engineering Doctorate
• William Darling (very small stub in need of help)
• The Inheritance of Loss (just so we had something)
• China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting
• Icesave dispute

Significant contributions to...

• Amplitude modulation
• Kiran Desai
• Time from NPL

Made a difference to...

Some of these include the addition of just a paragraph to e.g. a stub.

• Top-up fees
• British universities
• Student loan#United Kingdom
• Modulation
• Frequency modulation
• Narrowband
• Diversity reception
• Bandpass filter
• Motion graphs and derivatives
• John F Kennedy Catholic School (say "school" quickly, and it won't make you itch)

Along with minor copy-edits, stub-sorts etc. to various things.

Images

I've uploaded a few rather dull, technical images. I release all my own images under the GFDL because the choices of everything else are too bewildering. If you'd like a technical image made, I can probably make it given a little time:

• 
  University of Bristol Master's gown.
• 
  University of Bristol Master's hood.
• 
  Constellation diagram of BPSK with Gray coding.
• 
  Constellation diagram of QPSK with Gray coding.
• 
  Constellation diagram of 8-PSK with Gray coding.
• 
  System diagram for differentially-encoded modulation.
• 
  Amplitude modulation spectrum.
• 
  Spectrum of baseband signal compared to it RF equivalent.
• 
  Constellation diagram for Gray-coded 16-QAM.
• 
  Constellation diagram for rectangular 8-QAM.
• 
  Alternative constellation diagram for rectangular 8-QAM.
• 
  Constellation diagram for circular 8-QAM.
• 
  Phase modulation example.
• 
  Constellation diagram for 16-QAM.
• 
  Series RC circuit diagram.
• 
  Parallel RC circuit diagram.
• 
  Capacitor voltage step-response in series RC circuit.
• 
  Resistor voltage step-response in series RC circuit.
• 
  Series RL circuit diagram.
• 
  Parallel RL circuit diagram.
• 
  Timing diagram for BPSK.
• 
  Timing diagram for QPSK.
• 
  Timing diagram for offset QPSK.
• 
  Timing diagram for π/4-QPSK.
• 
  Timing diagrams for differentially encoded BPSK and QPSK.
• 
  BER curves for ordinary M-PSK in AWGN.
• 
  BER curves for differentially-encoded M-PSK in AWGN.
• 
  BER curves for M-DPSK in AWGN.
• 
  Dual constellation diagram for π/4-QPSK showing both constellations with 45° shift.
• 
  One second of Rayleigh fading with a maximum Doppler shift of 10Hz.
• 
  One second of Rayleigh fading with a maximum Doppler shift of 100Hz.
• 
  Doppler power spectral density of Rayleigh fading with a maximum Doppler shift of 10Hz. Also called Jakes' spectrum.
• 
  Autocorrelation function of Rayleigh fading with a maximum Doppler shift of 10Hz.
• 
  The cost of income tax and NICs as a function of taxable pay in a simple case for the current tax year. Includes MATLAB code to re-generate for future years.
• 
  The percentage cost of income tax and NICs as a function of taxable pay in a simple case for the current tax year. Includes MATLAB code to re-generate for future years.
• 
  Pie chart showing projected UK government tax receipts 2008-9.
• 
  Pie chart showing projected UK government expenditure 2008-9.
• 
  The UK's National Minimum Wage.
• 
  Comparisons of the UK's NMW to average earnings and inflation indices.

What I want to do

Write these articles properly (in no particular order):

• MIMO
• Space–time trellis code
• Differential space–time code, but they're so messy I probably never will
• Narrowband
• Wideband
• Fading
• Fix Category:Telecommunications and its children. They make my eyes water.

Work out whether frequency spectrum is really talking about the discrete Fourier transform and if some arrangement can be reached between those two and spectral density.

Get involved in some non-technical articles. I think I might be able to do some useful copy-editing of articles related to British politics and political systems.

Awards

Nice things nice people gave to me:

• 
  Here's a barnstar for constant participation in VfD's (i.e. the Joder dicdef, my idea, ha ha) and in RfA's. You are an outstanding Wikipedian. D. J. Bracey (talk) 07:34, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
• 
  I...present you with this Cool as a cucumber award for staying cool in discussion of a recent incident in which you were involved. moink 14:04, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
• 
  I, Redwolf24, award you this Public Domain astronaut for your work with Copyvios. --Redwolf24 (talk) 05:22, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
• 
  I tried for quite a while to write a citation that would do you justice. But it was always too long for the page. I award you this simplest of barnstars for the simplest of reasons. You're the best goddamn admin I know. encephalon 23:22, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
• 
  Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? For courageous defence of process against admin abuse (and because a hard-hat might come in useful) I Doc (?) make this award (24/10/05).
• 
  I, Xoloz, award this Working Man's Barnstar to Splash for his tireless defense of the spirit of consensus in many wiki-forums. Xoloz 11:07, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
• 
  For your actions on behalf of the wiki in the face of advancing Wikistress, a Barnstar of Diligence. -- nae'blis _(talk) 21:27, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
• 
  The Original Barnstar for fixing the utc template thing and speeding up current events in the process. Saved me the job of having to dig into nested template hell. GraemeL ^(talk) 16:26, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
• 
  For this great post [1] on the Administrators' noticeboard. Hbdragon88 03:11, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
• 
  For your constant, diligent, and thorough investigations of Spotteddogsdotorg sockpuppets despite criticsm, I award you a Barnstar of Diligence. --CFIF ☎ 01:15, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
• 
  The Barnstar of Diligence, for thinking before typing, resulting in excellent comments at WT:RFA. James086^{Talk | Email} 23:47, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
• 
  The Admin's Barnstar. For your heroic work in massively reducing the appalling backlog of unclosed CFDs. Over the last week, your efforts have reduced the backlog from 11 weeks to only 3 weeks. Thank you! BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:55, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Interwiki accounts

For interwiki purposes, I am also meta:User:Splash, commons:User:Splash, wikibooks:User:Splash, wikiquote:User:Splash, wikisource:User:Splash, wiktionary:User:Splash, wikitravel:User:Splash (not a Wikimedia or a GFDL project), Openfacts:User:Splash and IRC user splash_wp. The Wikimedia projects apart from Meta and Commons are principally for transwiki purposes. On Wikia I am User:Splash-enwiki, and all the accounts listed at that central user page are me.