Welcome to the Lars "Stockis" Liljeryd website,
a little of my background, hobbies, work and
some of my past and current toys!
Yepp, this is he, around 58 years ago.
Old saying:
"Man does not need to be beautiful, man only needs to be handsome...".
Yes, I am today a bit older, and a bit worn, and certainly a bit too heavy....

Born in Stockholm, Sweden, 1951
Non-Academic, Autodidact
"Self-made", entrepreneur, inaugurator
"Minister of ideas" and "ESP-technologist"
Creative and inventive (has a number of patents)
Curious, hardworking, confident, not afraid to ask
Non-athletic, non-smoker, drinks only occasionally
Started Stocktronics AB in 1971
Started Coding Technologies AB in 1997
Started Diabetes Tools Sweden AB in 2005
Started BioCrine AB in 2007

A member of the following organizations:
MTF Swedish Society for Medical Engineering and Medical Physics
AES (Audio Engineering Society)
MPEG (Motion Pictures Expert Group)
DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale)
SSA (The Swedish Amateur Radio Society)
ESR (The Swedish Society of Experimenting Radioamateurs)
This is me in a different perspective. Note the small brain!

(NMR-headscan)
When I was a kid I was very fond of radio and electronics. When 10 years old, I built a series of radio receivers for my friends. I did my first business selling this "New type of radio, needing no batteries!". Nobody realized it was the old crystal-radio inside the wooden box!
When I was12 years old in 1963, I started playing drums. Joined my first band "The King-Bees" in 1964 (left picture) when I was 13. King-Bees was mainly a cover band.

Left to right: me (drums), Bo Vikstrom (bass), Chister Hallberg (lead guitarr), Jan Hallberg (rythm guitarr), Klas Svensson (vocals).

We used to play, and was the "house-band" at the quite rough rockers club "The Comet" in Helsingborg.
When I was 13, I built my first stereo. The amplifier was a 6 watt Heathkit AA-201 Stereo Amplifier in kit form. I also made two open baffle dipole loudspeakers that I had salvaged from two old Blaupunkt Hi-Fi radios. Sounded ok but not too great. I put the speakers on the wall behind my drum-kit and practiced drumming to pop music from my small vinyl collection.
When I was 12 years old I got myself an old Husquarna M71 motorbike (left). This was weak and only 125cc (and 4hp) but was ok for trying out some fun dirt-tracks.
Later, when 15, I did get myself a hot BSA Super Rocket 650cc (right). This was sold cheap to me totally dismantled in all parts, and it took me more than three months to put it all together and tune it to spec. This bike was really flying. I did run it at top speed of 170 km/h! Quite something in those days!
As a young teenager I was a bit of a "rebell". I dressed odd in a US Army camouflage jacket and was first in town using high-heel boots (white-painted black boots), and had pierced my ear wearing two ear-rings (quite uncommon in those days).

I had much too long hair (according to the master of my high-school). Sometimes I participated in the riots between rockers and mods. I did not fight however and never got a blue eye, but was more trying to take on a neutral position. I guess the teenagers where frustrated and quite fed-up having not much to do in those days.

In the picture left, I was interviewed by my home-town newspaper during the riots. (I was14 years old)

I experimented in the 1960's as a teenager with shortwave communication and RTTY teletype transmissions (at 50 or 45.45 baud). It was quite complicated to build the RTTY FSK-modem in those days. The Creed-7 teletype was difficult to synchronise and a mechanical tuning-fork stroboscope(!) had to be used for rpm adjustment.
I really wanted a Ham radio licence, but could not cope with the mandatory and rather difficult Morse code. I was on a low budget and used an old WW2 "Wireless Set-19" as transceiver, and an old Lancaster-bomber receiver, the "R1155".
I started play drums professionally in 1967 when I was 16. Shades-of-Blue (left picture) was my first internationally touring soul-band.

We performed mainly in Germany, Denmark and Sweden. In this photo Tony (top) from Denmark was the lead singer. Later John Max from Jamaica joined as lead singer.

Left to right: Mike Noller (guitarr), Ronny Volt (bass), Jarl Stanley (sax), Tony Lindebjerg (vocals), me (drums) and Dave Oxnard (keyboards).

We recently had the Shades of Blue 2007 "revival concert" in the city of Helsingborg. It was actually possible to get together all group members from all over Europe and play just one more time, 40 years later!.
In 1968, when I was 17, I toured with Shades-of-Blue mainly in Spain. Larry Wald from Rio de Janeiro joined us as lead singer. Larry had a famous international hit "Mendocino" in 1968.

We did a number of radio shows both for Spain and South America.

Left to right: Bert Moller (baryton sax), Bernd Seibt (Hammond), Mike Noller (guitarr), Berney Smidt (sax), me (drums), Larry Wald (vocals) and Goran Svensson (bass).
When having some spare time in 1968 (and not playing with Shades-of-Blue), I got the job as the boss of Motel Avion's gocart track. This was one of two large gocart tracks in Madrid. I was repairing, tuning and rebuilding various types of gocarts, when not supervising visiting drivers.

The pay was bad, but I got unlimited free fuel for my own gocart. Therefore I could practice gocart driving all day long with my quite hot italian competition gocart. This was really great, great fun!
I joined Lena-Maria and Sweet Wine in 1969, this was a internationally touring pop, rythm & blues band.

We where touring Scandinavia, United Kingdom, the Netherlands and later mainly in Spain.

We did cut some singles and LP's and did the well known "Jesus Christ Superstar" tour in Sweden 1972 (although none was particularly religious).

When touring Spain in 1970, both Ernie Garret and famous singer Vin Cardinal joined Sweet Wine as singers together with Lena-Maria.

Left to right: Lennart (trumpet), John Blincoe (sax), Dougie Lawton (guitar), Bengt Kihlstrom (hammond), Lena-Maria Gardenas (vocals), me (drums), Gert Sandin (bass).
In 1971, when I was 20, I started my company "Stocktronics". I toured around Sweden and northern Europe and did rebuild Hammond organs (left picture) for various artists in order to improve the Hammond organ sound-quality (by just snipping off some capacitors in the amplifiers). The result was stunning, and the work took only about 30 minutes, thus quite easy earned money! :-)

I also designed and sold some high-power "Sound-modulated light Colour-organs" and polarized-light projectors for various Swedish and international discotheques. But a serious power black-out (due to me..) of the famous "S:t Peppers" disco in Palma de Mallorca somewhat ended my carrier in this field... :-(

In 1972, I moved to Stockholm. In my spare time I experimented in psychophysiology with my own developed EEG brain-wave neurofeedback monitor for alpha-wave enhancement (left). This is a de-stressing device using self-regulation to steer you into a relaxed state by increasing your brains alpha waves.
I also got myself an old Siemens 8-channel Mingograph EEG recorder to register human brain activity and a Cardiorex 12-channel ECG recorder (right) for cardiac evaluations (both with messy ink-galvos!). .
Numerous friends, male and female, was tested in "various situations" ;-) with EEG and ECG electrodes strapped to them. This was great fun and very interesting.
My friends thought I was totally nuts, having such strange interests.....
Finally in 1973 Sweet Wine had a Top-10 number one hit in Sweden,"Hideaway"! Our hit had the1993 record of being placed on the hitlist for alltogeteher 7 weeks! This was quite an achivement. This resulted in numerous TV and radio programs. Lena-Maria also started her own TV-show.

Lena-Marias husband Dougie Lawton produced "Hidaway" and the follow-up LP-record, and I did the 24-track recording/mixing at Studio DeciBel in Stockholm (see below).

Left to right: Erik Strandh (hammond), me (drums), Lena-Maria Gårdenäs Lawton (vocals), Dougie Lawton (guitar), Lennart Lilliengren (bass).
I freelanced 6 years as a 24-channel multitrack recording engineer, mainly working at Studio DeciBel in Stockholm. I started out as a 8-track engineer in 1972 and continued as 24-track engineer when the new MCI multitrack recorder was installed in 1973. I made 2 gold labels and 3 silver labels during this period. My work contributed to quite a number of internationally distributed records.

Lab Electronics designed the, at the time, very advanced recording/mixing console. This had overload protected VCA mic-amps and gyrator sweep-equalizers as well as flurocent text and markers. The control room, when lit by a flurocent light, looked like a 747 cockpit.

I also did PA-system mixing jobs for live conserts like various performances at the Stockholm Concert Hall, Stockholm Jazz Festival, The Waxholm Festival and many other performances and festivals. Quite fun!

I also worked parttime as a synthesizer programmer, mainly programming early Moog Modular and EMS synths, but also a little with the Buchla synth. This was in those days mainly involving setting up the synths for different artists performances and module programming using cables or by programming a matrix field. Quite different from todays software programmable plug-in synths!

My favorite "old-timer" synth replicas today is the amazing Arturia Moog Modular V2 plug-in.
In 1973 I got myself a Neumann disk-cutting lathe. This was used to cut laquer masters for the vinyl-disk mastering process. The Neumann SX-68 stereo disc cutter head was helium-cooled for extended power handling. The disk-cutting amplifiers was the famous Neumann VMS-66 valve amplifiers as used when cutting the super-drummer Billy Cobham masters. Additional equipment was an Ortofon STL632 acceleration limiter to keep treble energy and trace acceleration distortion down, and a Telefunken M10 preview tape recorder for the trace preview servo and master tape playback. I built the mastering control console myself using high slew-rate, low-noise op-amps.

In 1983 when the CD was introduced, I sold the Neumann lathe to a crazy japanese audiophile who converted the lathe to a "super grammophone" for vinyl record playback! Severe audiophilia madness!

In 1962 the first LASER producing continous visible light was invented. In 1971 I built my own 5 mW (red, 632.8 nm) Helium-Neon LASER (left picture) and got quite surprised and fascinated by the peculiar "speckle pattern" appearance and behaviour from reflected LASER light.

I designed my own electrodynamic X-Y laserbeam scanner unit and an analog Lissajous pattern computer so I could display interesting LASER-pattern art on a wall or screen

Together with a friend who played musical "drones" with a Hammond organ and a saxophone, we exhibited "Drone-Lissajous LASER-art" in the early 1970's at the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art .

I seriously belive that this was the first official LASER-show in Sweden.
I have recently started up my "LASER revival project" where I have duplicated my old LASER-art show, but using a modern 250 mW green Diod-Pumped Solid-State laser and closed-loop X-Y galvanometer scanners, and my old analog Lissajous computer.

(Home-built Laser and X-Y scanner-board left, and my old Analog Lissajous computer right)
Some Lissajous-patterns left .

For Laserists: The analog Lissajous computer is directly feeding the analog ILDA input terminals on the galvanometer driver boards, X and Y.

My Lissajous computer contains 8 signal generators, 2 multipliers and 2 phase-shifters.
I also have a high-power green DPSS laser for large-scale laser art display. I recently got a special permit from the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority for laser projections outside. Regulations are very strict in Sweden and I have installed multiple safety measures like electronic beam-clipping and double "spade shutters" (left picture) to enhance beam safety. I use the "PHOENIX ShowController" software and 60k pps tuned CT-6210 closed-loop galvanometer scanners.
In 1974 when I was 23, I filed my first patent. My invention was a LASER interferometer (auto refractor) for refraction measurements of the human eye (automatic eye examination using no lenses and no letter-tables).

The principle behind the invention was based on "speckle pattern" movement, that was compared/measured automatically at the observer position.

Of course this my first patent never made it commercially! About 10 years later somebody else nicked my basic idea, and sold their LASER eye-refractor examination apparatus to opthalmologists worldwide. Grrrr...
In 1976 I joined the well established and famous Swedish dance-band "The Moonlighters". We where mainly touring Swedish "folk-parks" and dance-restaurants. The pay was good but the repertoire was quite boring dance-music.

The Moonlighters had many musicians coming and going even during my time in this band, and many respected musicians has passed through the band during the years.

During my time in the band we had a hit in the Swedish Radio hit-parade "Svensktoppen" with a song named "Sommaren behover vi". We made one LP and some singles. We closed down the band for good in 1980. Yeah!

A late, small configuration of the Moonlighters, from left to right: Basse Wickman (vocals and guitarr), me (drums), Jan Brathe (bass), Johnny Blomqvist (keyboards and vocals).
Yes (belive it or not), in the late 70's I was (once) a photo-model! (pictures left)

My first Jeep (green in the pictures) was a Willys Jeep CJ-2A, with a Volvo B20 engine, tuned with high-compression head, high-torque camshaft and natrium-cooled exhaust valves.

I did some off-road competition and rebuilt it with heavy-duty Dana-44 axles front and rear, limited-slip differential and of course 40" large Monster Mudders!

Later, I got myself another more heavy-duty Jeep, the CJ-5 with a large high-torque engine.
In the late 70's I developed a stereo reverberation plate, the RX4000. Artificial reverberation units are used in the recording studio to create a spatial church-like sound-effect. Today such units are digital, but in the earlier days reverberation units where always mechanical like chambers, springs or plates. My unit was unique due to its thin (0.3mm) stainless steel plate. The hardness of the stainless steel gave the RX4000 extended high-frequency reverberation time, making it sound sizzling bright.

My world-wide agents (Japan brochure left) sold more than 250 units to many famous customers like live performing artists, recording studios, record companies and film/video studios all over the world. It can still be found in use today, and sometimes for sale on the Internet.

The RX4000 was tested and evaluated positively in international magazines for the sound and recording industry, and in particular positively by the recording industry legend Mr John Voram.

In the mid 80's I developed the worlds most advanced deep-diver communication system for the offshore oil-industry. Part of this work was funded by the Swedish Navy and various international oil companies like Statoil, Norsk Hydro and British Petroleum etc.

This system enabled for the first time ever, (Donald Duck-sounding) deep-diving, helium-breathing divers in saturation, to speak fully unscrambled with a normal voice, in full duplex with each other, with crane-operators etc, and even speak unscrambled over the phone with their wifes at home. My advanced unscrambler used frequency-domain signal processing similar to homomorphic-deconvolution

The Stocktronics Deep-Diver Communication System set world standards in this field, and was mandatory for deep-diving operations deeper than 180 meters in the oil-fields of the North Sea.

A number of large installations was delivered worldwide to semi-submersible diving platforms, monohull diving ships and shore-based diving laboratories. Many systems are still in use today internationally.

Some of my Stocktronics Deep-Diver Communication System installations:

Top left to right: MSV Karinia, MSV Regalia, DSV Norskald.
Bottom left to right: Naval Diving Centre Stockholm, DSV L376 Mingazprom Russia, Comex Hyperbaric Centre, Marseille.

My communication system was also recommended by ESA (The European Space Agency) for use in experimental earth-born space habitats.
In 1989 I was awarded the prestigous "Ocean Technology Price" for my Deep Diver Communication System and Helium Speech Unscrambler. This was given to me by the Swedish Board for Technical Development (STU) and the Swedish Ocean Industry Group (Swedocean).

The award was given to honor "Creativity, technical skill and persistence, leading to great success both technically and in business, in hard international competition, reflecting comprehensive, systematic and trendsetting development of a Deep Diver Communication System"
I started boating early with with my small 29 ft motorsailer and got myself a commercial captains licence, and ships engineers license. However when sailing, the wind always came from the wrong direction, so I got fed-up with sailing and got myself a motor yacht instead in 1989. This was a dutch Vitsen & Vis 55 ft steel yacht (built for Mr Conrad Hilton in 1966). I sailed her with my family from south of Spain to Sweden and that was quite a rough adventure, reflecting the bad weather and rather low technical state of the boat (many engine and genset black-outs).

I had great fun with this boat when I got a contract with the Swedish Costal Defence participating in some anti-submarine hunting operations. I fitted out the boat with my own high-sensitive hydrophones and passive sonar surveillance equipment.
Here I participated in a hot "DEFCON-2" (all submarine mine-stations armed!) submarine hunt as mother-ship to a new "unknown" type of mini-sub (top left). Despite 800 active and alert Swedish Navy and Costal Defence personnel in the hunting operation, I was the only one who managed (by obvious reasons) to get a sonar sound signature from this new mini-sub. After the submarine hunt, our sound-signature DAT-tape recording of the new sub was urgently picked up by a Navy chopper and delivered to the Swedish Navy ship signature analysis centre MUSAC.

Three proud and successful captains (top right), Captain "me", Captain Hellas, Swedish Civilian Defence and Captain Bertil Roland (retired) Swedish Navy.

Some of the analysis equipment onboard (left), a B.K real-time analyzer, a B.K. third-octave filter, a PC-based LOFAR spectrum analyzer, and (not in the picture) a 10k-tap Adaptive Line-Enhancer filter (ALE) for ambient noise reduction and submarine signature enhancement (developed by me and a British consultant. The ALE used a Texas 320C30 DSP).

I also developed and sold a portable high-sensitive hydrophone system, the ASW-1, for the Swedish Navy and Costal Defence. This could easily detect submarines and ships at many miles of distance.
As the old 55 ft steel lady was getting a bit too rusty, I sold her and got myself a nice Hatteras-58 glass-fiber yacht instead. She had two grand V-12 Detroit Diesel engines of 1000 hp and did up to 15 knots speed.

She was previously owned by the whiskey destillery Jack Daniels and had been very well looked after during the years, thus in nice condition. I have sailed her with my family in Florida, the Bahamas and around northern Europe. We used her as a part time liveaboard, spending quality time onboard and sailing the archipelago (left picture).

She has also been used for my underwater technical development projects and as a platform for my high-resolution side-scan sonar for exciting wreck hunting.
Me and Fredrik Henn (a colleague) developed in 1994 a high-power hydroacoustic communication system. Such unit is used for submarines, underwater diving-bells and habitats to communicate through the water with other units or surface ships. In our first real test we had excellent communication over 5.000 meters through the water, far better than many commercial systems (left picture). Read this OFFSHORE article (pdf)

One of my hobbies is underwater wreck-hunting using side-scan sonar. My high-resolution side-scan sonar has been developed by my friend Sture Hultqvist. A side-scan sonar picture is seen at left monitor and my electronic chart system is seen at the right monitor (right picture).
This is a stunning side-scan sonar picture showing what quality can be achieved with Sture's home-brew high-resolution side-scan sonar. (Commercial competition beware!)

The 500 kHz tow-fish was used for recording this picture of the 124 m German ship "Fritzen" laying at 75 m of depth..

Unfortunately, my very good friend and sonar expert Sture, recently died unexpectedly from a cardiac arrest at a much too young age.
In 1995 I started up a research project (according to a request from my friend Lars Molinder) and a feasibility study to develop a highly advanced digital binaural hearing-aid, the DHS (Digital Hearing System). The DHS project was funded mainly by national government institutions. Fredrik Henn and me learned a lot from this project study, but in 1997 the project was closed down due to lack of funding.

In late 1997 however, we got the offer to start up the DHS project again with substantial funding from major investors. But I had then allready started up a new R&D project (SBR) and a new company around this, Coding Technologies (see below), so due to lack of manpower the DHS project died.

If you are interested to read about some of the early DHS project ideas, click this DHS link (pdf).


The least successful idea and invention I did was my first patent in LASER interferometry filed in 1974 (above). The most successful idea I have so far thought-up is the idea that led to the invention of SBR (Spectral Band Replication) with my patent filed in 1997 (left). Note that this is around 23 years later! Not easy being an inventor.....

I started up Coding Technologies in 1997 due to my SBR idea. My clever engineers and colleagues helped me develop something useful out of this. This resulted in a successful international company with products used worldwide in broadcasting, satellites, mobile phones, radios, PC's, and consumer electronic applications etc. Read this fun interview (pdf)

My SBR idea is based on the concept of "spectral redundancy" in the frequency-domain, that is, the signal spectrum often looks-alike in both the low and high-frequences. Therefore it is not nessesary to transmit all the information all the way up to the high-frequencies. Instead transmit a limited frequency range to the decoder and thereafter transpose the low frequencies at the decoder up to the high-frequency range and apply a little side-information from the encoder telling how the high-band should look like at the decoder. This method saves a lot of data, resulting in up to 50% coding efficiency improvement. Read this AES paper on SBR (pdf)

I also initiated and participated early in the development of Parametric Stereo (PS), a method somewhat similar to SBR, but representing sparse coding in the spatial domain. In the PS simplest form, you only need to transmit a mono channel (and SBR) and some limited side-information on how the stereo perspective should look like. This saves additional information resulting in the highest coding efficincy available anywhere. Read this AES paper on PS (pdf). The aacPlus V2 codec is now standardized by ISO-MPEG and offers high-quality stereo at an incredible low 24 kbps, and close to CD-quality at 48 kbps!

The recent spin-off from from Parametric Stereo is Parametric Surround, that is now standardized as MPEG Surround. This gives high quality 5.1 surround at 64 kbps! Beat that if you can!

Read more about exciting products, applications and customers at the Coding Technologies website.
A prestigious milestone in Coding Technologies history!

In November 2007 Dolby Laboratories acquired my dear Coding Technologies and all 65 employees. In addition to a substantial offer I/we could not refuse, this is the most prestigious milestone in my own and my company's history. I started Coding Technologies in 1977, and I must admit, this is truly a real success story.

I am very pleased and satisfied that Coding Technologies, its technology and employees have landed in such safe, renowned and established hands. Both companies' devoted experts, technologies and products are complementary and the joined forces will offer new and innovative products to the world.
(Ray Dolby and me in San Francisco, left)

Read, the Dolby press release
the Ny Teknik article (in Swedish)
the Dagens Industri article (in Swedish)

After searching around the world for a rugged, seaworthy long-range cruiser, I found myself this classic-style Long/Range Cruiser/yacht, a 27 meter (90 ft) and 180 ton heavy ocean-going ship in 2004. I could not resist, but made her all mine.

She is a 1994 AquaMarine-90' and designed by M. J. Stapleton.

I procured her in Gibraltar and sailed her home to Sweden and Stockholm. This was a beautiful trip, visiting interesting cities and villages along the coastline. It was also incredible to see dolphins playing in front of the ship, and even reacting to human calls. A big whale was sighted closely when crossing the Bay of Biscay.

However, more company engagements, lack of precious time and change of plans, has forced this story to come to an end.

I have therefore recently sold my magnificent yacht. If you are interested to see more details on this beautiful lady, please visit my Lady Anne website
During the years I have been very interested in medicine and researched various fields in physiology, in particular relating to human biophysical signals. I have in early 2000 started up a research and development project in diabetes named DTools, and a company around this: DIABETES TOOLS AB.

We are currently 13 specialists working on this project developing new advanced tools for improved simulation, diagnosis and control of diabetes and diabetes related disease. Most R&D projects are initiated by myself and based on my previous research in physiology. This is a very exiting project with many new and innovative ideas emerging from my talented colleagues and scientists.

Diabetes Tools currently develops a number of software based products relating to diabetes physiology. What makes us different from the rest are:

WE CHALLENGE THE DIABETES EPIDEMIC FROM AN ENGINEERING-SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE !

If you are interested in the DTools project, please visit our simplistic DIABETES TOOLS website or contact me directly.
BioCrine_AB

Myself together with the acclaimed professors Per-Olof Berggren and Suad Efendic, recently started up BioCrine AB. This is a biotech innovations company marketing our innovations, know-how and IP-licenses world-wide in the field of diabetes. This is a spin-off from top-level research performed by the world-class research-team at the Rolf Luft Center of Diabetes Research at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.

Amongst a number of novel innovations, we are currently performing beta cell transplantations into the interior chamber of the eye. This is a revolutionary method as it is now possible for the first time to follow transplant innervation and transplant vascularization in real-time, in vivo by laser microscopy in the immuno-priviledged eye. This is a new and potential method for detailed in vivo studying of cell function in the living organism and offers, amongst many other possibilities, screening of new substances and pharmaceuticals in a new and potent way.

(Left: Innervated and vascularized beta cells in the eye chamber of a mouse).

I have always liked hot cars and motorbikes. A couple of years ago I got myself a VW-Trike as I could ride this on my car licence.

This particular contraption was built from Harley Davidson, Indian, Suzuki and Volkswagen parts. It had a low-compression rebuilt VW-1600 engine with a Holley 500 carburator. Fun to ride with a heck of acceleration!
At Coding Technologies I was in the late 90's involved in the Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) international standardization work. I have been demonstrating DRM transmissions using my own portable low-power DRM HF demo-stuff for broadcasters and ham-radio organizations.

(Left) I am performing some local DRM test-transmissions using the professional THALES DRM exiter and some preparation work for the Swedish Radio International DRM test transmissions 2005 from the Hörby station.

(Right) I have calculated a realistic coverage map for the log-periodic antenna and transmitter details from the Hörby DRM test transmitter.
At last I got myself a radio amateurs license (SA0AEU)! Strange, it took me nearly a lifetime to get here.
In the picture left, I just passed my examination, and my mentor Conny (SM5DCO) is demonstrating his CW skills.

I am aiming mainly at the HF-band and in particular using digital modulation. I experiment with the simple and very efficient and popular PSK-31 and in addition the amateur radio implementation of DRM, the DRMDV. My shack shown in the right picture

DRM freaks: Download my informative DWT-fun document (pdf)
Early 2005 I was ranked by the Swedish newspapers "Ny Teknik" and "Dagens Industri" as number 8 of Swedens most influential IT-brains!
This is an achivement that I am very flattered and proud of! Nice to be recognised after all years of hard work. Read more: CT press-release (pdf) or this Ny Teknik article (link).

In March 2006, me and my three fellow colleagues at Coding Technologies was awarded the prestigious "Grand Technology Prize" (Stora Teknikpriset) at the annual ceremony at The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. The prize sum is SEK 300.000.- and it was given to me, Per, Kristofer and Fredrik to honor "Innovative excellence in combination with business success". This award is arranged yearly by the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation, VINNOVA and technical news magazine Ny Teknik. (This award is sometimes nick-named "The small Nobel Prize"). We are very proud to have recieved this prestigious award in strong competition to other very competent nominees. Read more (in Swedish):
Ny Teknik article (link).
Royal Institute of Technology article (pdf)

I have switched from VW Boxer engine to HD V-Twin!
Got so tired of the my VW-Trike (always stuck in city traffic due to its wide-ass), so I did get myself a Harley Dyna Low Rider-06 with the TwinCam "Fat Head" 88ci engine.
Hmm...like Harleys so much that I have just got myself a second Harley, a Road King Anniversary-08 with the bigger TwinCam "Fat Head" 96ci engine.
Nice bike for road-race tuning....(see below)
Must go burn some rubber....aaahhhh!
Excellent tools are available today to race-tune your EFI-Harley in off-real-time. Not many riders are aware of the fact that you can actually "dyno-tune" your Harley yourself, on the track, with excellent results!

I have two great tools at hand for this: Harley race-tuner (in data mode at left) and Daytona Twin Scan II tuner (right pic)

Read my (preliminary) HD tuning-guide: Sto_HD_Tuning_Basics.pdf

An important project that touches my heart so much:
I am participating in a friend's project, the building of an orphanage in south India for destitute little girls (www.enable.dk).
Him, me and some other sponsors are building and financing a 10 homes village for 70 girls of minor age. We are responsible for the little girls in need, their education, their well being and healthcare, and their new and caring home just outside Tranquebar, Tamil Nadu, southeast India. The first 23 girls has recently moved in (2009) to their newbuilt homes and started school.

Little girls are so severely neglected in India. In addition, female infanticide and female foeticide is a severe problem. The female population is declining due to selective elimination!
Read this Indian government report on the Girl Child (pdf).


I am also helping a small orphanage outside Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, southeast India, "S.A.L.T, The Childrens Home", with some of their basic needs. They are extremely poor, and are trying to cope with their hard life and survival on a daily basis.

Before meeting them in 2007, they had no pillows, no blankets and were sleeping on the bare concrete floor. They had no paper to write on, no pens, no schoolbooks and no toys.

Some of the 40 kids in the left picture, and a delivery of swedish toys in the right picture.

If YOU want to help them directly with donations (no middle men), I will gladly assist you with contact details.

I have also a small clinical research laboratory, including the following instruments:

1. Welch Allyn Electrocardiograph (ECG), with MEANS and HES interpretation
(two different expert-system interpreters gives higher quality of ECG interpretation)
2. Welch Allyn Heart Rate Variability (HRV), time- and frequency domain analysis
3. Neurosoft HRV analysis for classification of the autonomous nervous system, using the Ewing test set. (For diabetic and alcohol neuropathy diagnosis).
4. ESAOTE AU3 clinical colour doppler for real-time ultrasound imaging
5. Huntleigh Dopplex II, vascular doppler
6. Micro Medical, Micro Plus spirometer
7. Afinion AS100, HbA1c and CRP blood analyzer
8. Siemens Clinitek 50 urine analyzer (albumin, creatinin, protein, ketones etc)
9. Abbot Freestyle Navigator for Continous Glucose Measurements (CGM)
10. Medtronic Guardian RT for Continous Glucose Measurements (CGM)
11. HemoCue Glucose 201+, clinical blood glucose analyzer
12. Masimo Rad-5 pulse oximeter for oxygen saturation and sleep apnea analysis
13. Tensio Med, continous ambulatory blood pressure monitor
14. Omron blood pressure and pulse monitors
15. Omron Transcutaneous Nerve Stimulator (TNS)
16. Omron and Silva step counters (3-axis accelerometer pedometers)
17. Braun compensated IR in-the-ear thermometer
18. Samaritan PAD automated external defibrillator (AED)
19. Laerdal portable emergency oxygen and suction kit.
20. Tegnér clinical audiometer test set
21. Opthalmologists trial lens set

Recently I have built me a professional recording studio "StockSound Recording". The control-room includes a tri-amplified clone of Lipinski L-707 monitor system speakers, with two sub-bass units added. The sound performance and definition is just incredible at 22 Hz - 20 kHz.
I use ProTools with 16-AD in, 128 audio channels in mix position and numerous plug-ins together with the CI24 fully automated control console.

I am very excited over the vast possibilities offered with ProTools. It is an incredible system compared to what we had in the old analog days using MCI, Neve or SSL equipment.

Left picture: Chino Mariano (guitarr), me (drums), Peter Forbes (bass)

I just got myself a fantastic car, the Mercedes SL 63 AMG cab. I used to prefer only american cars with V8's, but this hi-tech, race-tuned Deutsches-Reichs-Wagen really changed my mind. It produces the sweetest V8 sound of any turbocharged 6.3 liter engine I could think of !
(Sorry, no shrieking V12's for me, only sweet V8 roar and rumble!)

This rocket is the only production car with a dragster-switch on the 7-stage automatic gearbox. It really kicks butt and has all the whistles and bling-bling you can imagine (including a throttle connected radar) and does 0 - 100 km/h in 4.6 seconds. It is really difficult driving it without burning lots of rubber!

The right picture is my Mercedes ML 350 SUV for domestic use.
After many years of boating and upgrading to larger and larger yachts, (and after closing down my 90ft Lady Anne world-cruise project due to lack of precious time), I have chilled down my boating needs to a mere Princess-45 yacht. This is a nice and very well-equipped lady designed for extensive holiday cruising. She has two 425hp 3208 Caterpillar V-8 diesels and does up to 25 knots. She is equipped with extensive electronics like Furuno ARPA, AIS, electronic vector charts etc. She is also equipped with a full blown radiator heating system. This extends the cruising season substantially in our nordic climate.

This picture (left) was taken in the outermost of the Stockholm archipelago (consiting of nearly 30.000 islands and islets), Svenska Högarna (lighthouse) island, one of the most beautiful and peaceful places in the archipelago. A bit far and hard to reach, but much worth the effort.

Recently I was in the former east Germany, visiting a Russian T-55 Tank driving school, together with my fiancee Ninna. We now hold a T-55 driving license each! The T-55 is the most produced tank ever and is still in use world-wide, runs up to 60 km/h, has a 39 liter(!) V12 diesel at 600hp, and is rough and fun to drive (although driver vision is extremely limited by a small periscope).
The T-55 was thrilling to drive, in particular when I had the opportunity to crush a car :-) The cost charged for the potent car-crushing lesson was well worth the spending....(FYI, I believe there was nobody inside the car!)


A fool who thinks that he is a fool, is for that very reason a wise man.
But that conceited fool who thinks that he is wise, is called a fool indeed.

(Dhammapada, Buddhist scripture, ~500 B.C.)


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