In
memoriam:
Knut
N. Stokke, Our Norwegian Consultant 1998-2006.
Knut N. Stokke was born in Gjemnes, Nordm¿re,
Norway, the 26th of
September in 1929, and passed away
on October 30th, 2011.
He graduated from the Norwegian Technical University
in 1958, and on the 6th of January 1959 Mr.Stokke joined the Broadcasting Section at The
Norwegian Telecommunications Administration where he got the
responsibility for frequency
planning and radio propagation problems.
From 1960 he participated
as a lecturer in the education of maintenance
people for the FM and TV stations. In addition he served as a part-time teacher at the Norwegian
Telecommunications AdministrationÕs Education Centre for engineers.
In 1969 he joined
the Transmission Section in the Norwegian Telecommunications
Administration, A part of his responsibility
was to initiate new regulations concerning TV transmitters/transposers and FM
transmitters/transposers.
When the Norwegian Telecommunications Authority
was established in 1987, he became Head of Section for regulation of TV and FM broadcasting, cable TV and radio propagation. In
1995 the name of the organisation
was changed to Post and
Telecommunications Authority, and he
was engaged as adviser in the Technical and Standardisation
Department/Staff.
Because of the nature of
his work, he has participated in international organisations concerning radio regulations and radio propagation.
He was a member of the Norwegian Electrotechnical Committee, and has been
a member of the board of
representatives in that committee.
He was also a member of URSI
(Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale)
and AGARD (NATOÕs Advisory Group for Aerospace Research & Development),
and contributed with papers and articles in these organisations.
Concerning international cooperation related to radiotechnical
problems, he participated
in the work of EBU (European Broadcasting Union), and as Norwegian
delegate to several ITU meetings
and planning conferences (ITU = International Telecommunication Union). One of
his responsibilities in one
of the ITU working groups was to prepare the first edition of the World Atlas of Ground Conductivities.
Of the
conferences where he has participated as delegate, he mentioned the
ITU FM and TV planning conference in Stockholm 1961, ITU's administrative radio conference
in Oslo in 1966 where the colour TV systems and the FM
stereo systems were decided,
ITUÕs conference for LF and
MF broadcasting, Geneva
1974 and 1975, ITUÕs planning conference
for satellite broadcasting,
Geneva 1977, and conference
for the extended FM broadcasting band, Geneva 1984.
He has also participated
as a lecturer at ITU seminars (Muscat, Oman, 1983, Geneva 1983). Another lecture which he
mentioned, was at the German lonospheric
Institute in Kleinheubach
1981 (in German),
He contributed with
several papers in the ITU and EBU journals, with several papers (in English and
Norwegian) in Norwegian journals (registered in NORART).
In addition he
wrote a Norwegian textbook on radio transmission, first edition at the Norwegian Telecommunication Administration 1961, which
was later edited by the University publishers 1971. A Norwegian textbook,
ÓFrom transmitter to receiverÓ, an introduction to radio wave propagation, was published in 1978, and a textbook
on transmitter technique was published in 1989.
The Northern Star project is very grateful to Knut N.Stokke. He was a very friendly and helpful person, very
knowledgeable, and a very great help to our project! We first met in 1972 at Teledirektoratet in Oslo as a dx-friend and myself had been invited
to his office to discuss the coming ITU LF/MF Conference
in Geneva in 1974. The conversation
was most interesting, and only the first of many conversations
and phone calls throughout the 70s-80s-90s and early 2000s. We learned of the
plans for high-power AM-stations
around Norway, heard of the special
antenna system of Allouis, then on 164 kHz, facsimile transmissions over Jel¿y Kringkaster, and as the broadcasting monopoly fell, he became favorable to the community broadcasting stations set up from the early 80s and onwards. And he signed many QSL
cards and letters for us!
He arranged for a grant to DX-Listeners'Club
from Teledirektoratet for NOK 10000, and generously shared his knowledge and papers and essays. Always a big supporter of AM broadcasting because of its big
coverage, it was he who finally
convinced us to go for a high-power AM license in January 1997, initially for 153, then for 216
and 1314 kHz. We were able to rely on
him for our application documents in 1997 and 2000, had the 153 and 216 kHz frequencies on our hands, and the 1314 station LKS Kvits¿y
Kringkaster on offer for the
last part of 2006. Stokke always
said, first you get "NO", then "YNO", then "YES AND
NO" and finally "YES". He was right, never hiding there might be opposition! Knut N.Stokke was also a very
gifted writer of Christian hymns and has also left a large
folder of these. We last met in 2006 at Post and Tele in Oslo in connection with our taking part in the P&T working group "New
life for Low-Frequency
Broadcasting" but had
contact until he was hit by illness.
Norwegian summary:
Overingeni¿r Knut N.Stokke(1929-2011) var konsulent for Northern
Star-prosjektet 1998-2006.
Intervju med overingeni¿r
Knut N.Stokke om satellittkringkasting:
NRK Nordland 091282
https://tv.nrk.no/serie/nord-og-naa/FTRO00002882/09-12-1982
Radiotransmisjon
kabler,
b¿lgeutbredelse, antenner, 362 s.
Universitetsforlaget 1982
http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2013011006050
Boka behandler de
viktigste transmisjonsmessige forhold en mΠta hensyn
til ved radiooverf¿ringer. Kabler og kabelteori brukes som utgangspunkt for Œ
komme over til b¿lgeledere og b¿lgeutbredelse i rommet. Avsnitt om filter,
glassfiberteknikk, navigasjon m.m.
Fra sender til mottaker
Innf¿ring i radiotransmisjon
Vett og viten, 1994
Boka gir en innf¿ring
i radiotransmisjon, dvs. b¿lgeutbredelse, antenner og kabler.
NivŒ: Noe
forkunnskaper om elektrisitet og magnetisme.
http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2007121800044
Nynorsk utgave
Universitetsforlaget 1978
Senderteknikk
Vett og viten, 1989
Denne boka gir ei innf¿ring
i senderteknikk, spesielt for kringkasting. Det blir lagt vekt pΠΠforklare
prinsipper, og s¾rlig da prinsippene for modulasjon. Og i og med at modulering
og demodulering er avhengige av hverandre blir det ogsΠtatt med litt om
mottakersida. Det siste avsnittet er om satelittkringkasting,
og der mŒ en ta med bŒde sendersida og mottakersida for Œ fŒ et innblikk i
systemene.
Fjernsyn:
mikrofon, kamera, sender,
mottaker
Universitetsforlaget 1975
http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2008080704050
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