Love antennas or want to know more about them? Every two weeks we ask an expert from the antenna world to pick and topic and tell us more. If you are also an expert we would love to hear your thoughts or have you on the show! If you are a novice, tune in to get into our community. I founded and run an antenna company and work on many antenna projects with our engineers in Taoglas every day. It fascinates me how many antennas are in our lives and what goes into designing and developing them.
Ep 17: From Space Antennas to Global Telecom: Inside Amphenol’s Antenna Strategy
In this episode of The Antenna Podcast, Dermot O'Shea is joined by Minya Gavrilovic, head of the antenna and filter business at Amphenol's Andrew division, one of the world's leading wireless infrastructure companies. Minya shares his journey from designing advanced radar and satellite antennas in the space industry to leading global telecom antenna businesses responsible for keeping mobile networks connected around the world. The conversation explores the realities of antenna product devel...
15 Jun 2026
Ep 16: “You’ll Never Retire”: Why Antenna Engineers Are Still Irreplaceable
In this episode of The Antenna Podcast, Dermot O’Shea sits down with Professor Gabriel Rebeiz (UC San Diego), a globally recognized leader in antennas, phased arrays, and millimetre-wave systems, with over three decades of experience spanning academia and industry. Gabriel shares his journey into electromagnetics from circuits at Caltech to becoming one of the pioneers behind breakthroughs in terahertz antennas, RFICs, MEMS technologies, and early phased array systems. He walks through the e...
8 Jun 2026
Ep 15: How Engineers Actually Make Tiny Antennas Work at Low Frequencies
In this episode of The Antenna Podcast, Dermot O’Shea is joined by Jaime Molins Benlliure, PhD, Antenna and RF Engineer at Taoglas, to unpack one of the toughest challenges in RF engineering: designing efficient small antennas at low frequencies. Jaime walks through the real physics that limit antenna miniaturisation, explaining why shrinking antennas isn’t just a layout problem - but a fundamental trade‑off between size, efficiency, and bandwidth. Using real examples from his work on 433 MHz...
27 May 2026
Ep 14: The Irish Engineer Who Put UWB Inside Your Smartphone
In this episode of The Antenna Podcast, Dermot O’Shea speaks with Michael McLaughlin, co‑founder and former CTO of Decawave, about the engineering journey behind ultra‑wideband (UWB) technology and its path to global adoption. Michael shares how his career began in Ireland during a tough job market, his early years in the semiconductor industry, and how that experience led to founding Decawave. The discussion explores the technical breakthroughs that made centimetre‑level position...
7 May 2026
Ep 13: From Satellite Antennas to OTA Testing: The Science of Accurate Measurement
In this episode of The Antenna Podcast, host Dermot O’Shea is joined by Lars Jakob Foged, Vice President of R&D at Microwave Vision Group (MVG), for a deep dive into antenna measurement and why it remains critical to real‑world antenna performance. Lars shares insights from his career spanning satellite antenna design, space systems, and advanced measurement technologies. The discussion covers the practical challenges of validating complex antennas, including mechanical constraints, therm...
20 Apr 2026
Ep 12: How One Lens Antenna Can Replace 400 Dishes and how the Future of Cellular Capacity May Not Be More Towers
In this episode of The Antenna Podcast, Dermot O'Shea speaks with Leo Maddison, co-founder of Matsingh Inc., about the science and real-world impact of lens antennas. Leo Maddison explains how lens-based designs use refraction rather than reflection, enabling multiple independent beams from a single antenna with strong isolation and broad frequency coverage. The conversation explores how that approach can increase cellular capacity without adding more towers, why it has proven valuable...
19 Mar 2026
Ep 11: From Copper Tape to Carrier Cert: Inside Real‑World Antenna Design
In this episode of The Antenna Podcast, host Dermot O’Shea is joined by Tim Kelley, antenna engineer at Amazon and a former long‑time collaborator at Taoglas, for a wide‑ranging and practical conversation on what it really takes to design antennas that work in the real world. Tim walks through his journey into antenna engineering from testing antennas outdoors in upstate New York, to years of hands‑on cellular, GNSS, and Wi‑Fi design work, and now to tackling complex challenges within Amazon’...
16 Feb 2026
Ep 10: Self-Interference in IoT Devices: Why Antenna Performance Isn’t the Root Cause
In this episode of The Antenna Podcast, Dermot O’Shea speaks with Dr. Peter Nevermann, a wireless industry veteran with extensive experience in antenna design, RF testing, certification, and system performance. Peter shares his journey from semiconductor physics and RF noise research into senior roles at Siemens Mobile Phones, Vodafone Global, and leading test laboratories in Germany and Silicon Valley. A key focus is self-interference and noise management, which Peter explains is often misat...
28 Jan 2026
Ep 9: The Antenna Podcast Ep 9: I Had No Plan - Then the First Million-Dollar Order Arrived
In this episode, Dermot sits down with Andre Fourie - whose career began with a search for meaningful work and evolved into decades of real-world antenna innovation. Andre shares the turning points and technical hard lessons behind holistic antenna design, the evolution from academia to product, and what really matters when antennas must perform beyond the lab. From early research and military projects to building and exporting technology globally, this conversation pulls back the...
21 Jan 2026
Ep 8: Hidden in Plain Sight: The Antennas Powering 5G (and Why You Never Notice Them)
How do you add more spectrum, more bandwidth, and more performance without adding more towers? In this episode of The Antenna Podcast, host Dermot O’Shea sits down with Fergal Lawlor, Founder and CEO of Alpha Wireless, to unpack the hidden engineering behind modern cellular networks. Fergal shares his journey from military radio technician to building a global antenna company, along with stories from designing Olympic stadium antennas to solving some of the toughest challenges in 5G infrastru...
16 Jan 2026
Ep 7: Where RF Meets Reality: Antenna Design from Coffee Cups to Massive MIMO
Antennas are often overlooked—until they fail. In this episode of The Antenna Podcast, host Dermot O’Shea sits down with Ben Culver, CEO of Southwest Antennas, to explore why antenna design is one of the most critical—and misunderstood—elements of any RF system. Ben shares his journey from U.S. Navy fire control electronics to leading a $25M antenna company, offering a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to design antennas that perform in real-world, mission-critical environments. From em...
12 Jan 2026
Ep 6: Defying Antenna Physics: How Dielectrics Changed Everything
In this episode of the Antenna Podcast, host Dermot O’Shea speaks with Oliver Leisten, CTO of Helix Geospace, about his journey from GPS pioneer to antenna innovator. Oliver shares how his work with dielectric-loaded antennas transformed performance for satellite and IoT applications, improving efficiency, reducing detuning near the human body, and enabling compact, high-performing designs. He explores the challenges of achieving low gain ripple, the importance of manufacturing precision, and...
9 Jan 2026
Ep 5: The Wireless Revolution: How MIMO Supercharged Global Connectivity
This episode pulls back the curtain on the wireless technology that powers everything around us. From Wi-Fi and 5G to long-range links connecting entire communities. In this Episode Dermot chats with Dr. John Sanford, Professor of Practice at UC San Diego where he dives into the breakthroughs that changed the industry: how MIMO went from a wild academic idea to a capacity-boosting superpower, how multipath (normally a problem) became a tool to create 12 independent channels at once, and why s...
7 Jan 2026
Ep 4: Beyond the Lab: Why Your Antenna Works on Paper but Fails in the Field
Why does your antenna design pass every simulation—but fall apart when the device powers on? In this episode, Dermot O’Shea chats with Dr. Argy Petros, VP of Engineering at Taoglas, about bridging the brutal gap between theory and practice in RF design. From his early work at Motorola and XM Satellite Radio to launching his own antenna business, Argy shares lessons learned over decades of designing antennas that actually perform in the wild. They cover efficiency vs. gain, the dangers of igno...
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