AB Communications Engineering was established by Alister Bailey Bsc(Hons) CEng MIET .

Alister has an Honours degree in Electronics from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST–1986). He is a chartered member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (formerly the IEE).

After university Alister worked for Philips Research Laboratories — spending five years in Redhill (UK) and two years in Eindhoven (NL). He then returned to the UK and moved to Philips Telecom PMR (later to become Simoco) in Cambridge. He left Team Simoco in June 2004 to form AB Communications Engineering.

Notable achievements during this time include proposals for a packet radio service on GSM (now GPRS), design and manufacture of the first TETRA compliant PMR base-station, transfer and commissioning of a production line from Ireland to Taiwan. Design and manufacture of an award winning slim 100W analogue PMR base station. Most recently design of an advanced TETRA Base Station.

Current skill set & experience

Products: TETRA Base Stations, Antenna systems, FM Base Stations, mobiles, portables and ancillaries.

Recent experience in: Product management, Radio Systems design, Production methods for radio products and design for manufacture, product safety EMC and Radio type approvals, product IPR and trade marks, documentation and technical bid support. Standards; TETRA, MPT-1327 trunking, R&TTE LVD RoHS WEEE Directives, ISO9000:2000 processes. Management of remote project teams (experience of Korea, Australia, Taiwan, Ireland). Techniques including; transmitter linearisation, environmental design, crypto and telemetry systems, data modulation methods, IP networking, component procurement and specification, power supplies batteries and charging. Also, technical support issues, OEM-in of products, I.C.T. support; computer networks, Linux (SuSE/KDE), MS Windows,