Eric E. Funk, Ph. D. is a co-owner, manager, and RF Design Engineer at Red Mountain Radio LLC (RMR). Engineering Project Management:Eric manages a variety of radio frequency, microwave, and photonic design projects from idea to production-ready for clients including developing specifications, budgets, and timelines, performing system and board level hardware design, prototyping, testing, firmware coding, documentation, and assisting with transition to production. RF Design:Dr. Funk has recently performed design work on the following types of products and applications: mm-wave radar, Machine-to-machine (M2M), wearables, radar, automotive OBD, aircraft comms, antenna matching, radio-over-fiber, optical wireless, high temp. oil well down-hole sensor, set top box, pager, RFID, RF test equipment/instrumentation.RF Board Level Design: Eric applies best practice RF Engineering principles to board-level design including the design of PLLs, VCOs, microwave filters, low noise and power amplifiers, T/R switches, front-end limiters, ADCs and DACs. This includes RF layout on multi-layer and microwave laminate boards. He routinely works with vector network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, vector signal generators, oscilloscopes, function generators, and thermal test ovens. He is proficient at soldering and solder rework. Optical Design: Eric applies best practice optical and RF design engineering principles to develop radio-over-fiber systems. He works proficiently with DFB lasers, laser controllers, MZMs, SMF28 and specialty single mode fibers, and optical test equipment. Problem Solving & Analysis:Eric routinely performs system level and software development including link budgets, noise figure analysis, Lab View coding, MatLab signal processing design, firmware coding in C (typical). Many of his ideas have led to patents for his customers.

Eric is a founder and co-owner of Brown Mountain Broadcasting LLC (BMB) [dba Mountain Chill®]. BMB owns and operates the Class-A commercial radio station KRKQ in the Telluride, CO market and its associated Internet media site, mountainchill.com. KRKQ is a next generation radio station known for its innovative and influential format. KRKQ is also known for it's innovative approach to RF engineering including a commitment to 100% renewable energy. Brown Moutnain Broadcasting's in-house innovations include its AudioRack Suite of software, proving automation, live assist, traffic management, Internet-STL, and webcasting in a single package. Engineering innovations include an exceptionally reliable Internet IP-based studio-transmitter link solution with Forward Error Correction (FEC), Interleaving, and MIMO.