Aitken & Partners provide consulting services in engineering and management systems. Our engineering expertise is focused on AM and FM radio broadcasting, railway systems engineering, radio propagation and EMC analysis.
We develop management systems (including ISO 9001, ISO 14001 & AS 4801) and provide continual improvement consultation for a range of industries. Our skills and interests can be seen in the various pages of this web site.
More than 25 years of reliable, cost effective solutions.
The Principal is John Aitken. John has been a consultant in railway communications for over twenty five years. Prior to involvement in the railway industry he worked with Telstra’s forebears for ten years in radio and cable systems construction. He has extensive experience in radio and television broadcasting. In 1983 John founded Aitken & Partners, a consulting engineering practice which specialises in communications engineering.
After work on microwave systems for the Queensland electrification project and mobile radio systems for mines in the Pilbara, John was responsible for specification of the Sydney Metronet train radio system. He was the engineer for much of the development of Countrynet in (NSW), pioneering the use of GPS and satellite telephone systems for railways. This was followed by the Pacific National AWARE locomotive system and the Pacific National Communications Control Centre (CCC) project.
Experience with railway radio and passenger security systems in NSW, Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia has reinforced his enthusiasm for systems that are based on international standards. Some of the systems specified include the Perth Emergency Telephone system and the Driver Assistance Video system for Perth trains. John has a particular interest in human factors and systemic issues in railway communications.
John is the author of AS 7660, the standard for radio communications for train control and has contributed to the development of the railway telecommunications course offered by Central Queensland University. He is the chairman of the Australasian Section of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers for 2008/2009.
John Aitken has been recognised as an Accredited Person by the Australian Media and Communications Agency.
Electronic design has been an important activity of Aitken & Partners, particularly for AM radio. John designed the AM radio transmitters used for radio rebroadcast in road tunnels in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth and has designed and installed AM radio transmitters with output up to 1 kW. He is experienced in the design and adjustment of antenna coupling units for high power AM radio transmission.
Aitken & Partners has an extensive and impressive list of clients, including many major companies and other consultants. The specialist nature of our practice is such that other consulting companies frequently call on our services.
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