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Archives for December 2015

General Meeting Monday January 4th, 2016 at 7:00PM

December 20, 2015 by John Comanzo

“The Ionosphere is Birefringent, or You Are Never Too Old to Learn”

Jim Stewart, K2PK

It does not take a lot of depth of knowledge about how our signals get from point A to point B to enjoy and productively use amateur radio. It also is true we never progress to the point where there isn’t something new to learn.

This is a tale about how an almost throwaway line in a CQ magazine article led to one of those “Aha” moments when something I knew from on the air experience suddenly made sense from the physics of the ionosphere, and maybe some terrestrial things as well.

Jim has been a member of SARA nearly 40 years.

He is past president and vice president of SARA and is currently Board Secretary. He was first licensed in 1954 as WN3ZIR with later calls W3ZIR, K2PKK and now K2PK.

While the bulk of his professional life was in the electric power industry first at Niagara Mohawk then in Schenectady at Power Technologies Inc., he also has had a hand in commercial radio at two AM broadcast stations and one FM station.

Jim is a Fellow of the IEEE and is on the ARRL CW DXCC Honor Roll.

Ionosphere


If Niskayuna High School cancels evening classes and activities, the SARA meeting will normally be cancelled and possibly rescheduled. Listen to the SARA 147.060 repeater for meeting status information and whether the meeting will be rescheduled.

SARA meetings are generally held in the Little Theatre of the Niskayuna High School on Balltown Road unless otherwise noted. Attendees should enter the school through the cafeteria entrance located on the side of the school, adjacent to the Nott Street Extension school parking lot.


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About SARA

The Schenectady Amateur Radio Association (SARA) was established in 1930. The club station, K2AE, is the Henry Primm Broughton Memorial Station. SARA operates repeaters on  2 meters (147.06 MHz.), and on 70 centimeters (444.200 MHz.) which are located at the top of Crawford Hill in Schenectady County near New York State Thruway exit 26.

The club is an American Radio Relay League (ARRL) affiliate and has about 100 members from all over New York State’s Capital District (Albany, Schenectady, Troy), and beyond.

For additional information about the ARRL see https://arrl.org

Last updated: 31-August-22