Another New Meeting Location!!
Fellowship Hall of the First United Methodist Church
603 State Street, Schenectady
Directions to First United Methodist Church:
Parking lot address is 610 (Google shows it as 650) Chapel Street Schenectady NY 12305.
Chapel St is a One Way street from Nott Terrace to Lafayette Street. If this lot is full, park across the street. Enter the building through double doors, take an immediate right, go through another set of double doors, turn right then left and the Fellowship Hall is on your right (follow signs).
From the East (Colonie, State St Rt 5):
Turn Right onto Nott Terrace then take your first Left onto Chapel Street. Parking lot is on Left.
From the West (Scotia, Glenville, Eire Blvd):
*THERE IS NO LEFT TURN FROM STATE STREET TO NOTT TERRACE*
Take State St (Rt 5) to Lafayette St and turn right then immediately turn Left to continue up State St. At Veeder Ave (Traffic Light) turn Left. Cross over State St (Rt 5) then take the first Left onto Chapel St. Parking lot is on Left.
From the South (I-890 Exit 5, Broadway, Rotterdam):
Take Broadway North to Millard St and turn Right, First Traffic Light. Millard St becomes Veeder Ave at Hamilton St (Schenectady FD on Left). Continue over Veeder take first left after State St onto Chapel St. Parking is on left.
From the North (Union Collage, Niskayuna, Union St):
From Union St, take Nott Terrace South and turn Right onto Chapel St. Parking lot is on Left.
Cancellations: If Niskayuna High School cancels evening classes and activities the SARA meeting will also be cancelled. Check www.niskyschools.org for school closing information.
Our regular meeting location (First Reformed Church, Schenectady) will be undergoing a year-long renovation and will not be available to us until later this year—possibly by September.
“The Magic of Mixers:
From Tuner Radio Frequency Receivers to Superheterodyne Receivers”
Speaker: James Hedrick, WB2LKZ
Abstract: The first RF receivers used chained-tuned RF amplifiers all operating at the same frequency. These receivers were difficult to design and even harder to tune. A mixer is a three port circuit that is used to modulate, or demodulate, an RF signal. In this talk we will be exploring how mixers work and how they led to the superhererodyne receivers we use today.
James Hedrick has always been interested radio communications and has been an amateur radio operator for about fifty years. He got his FCC commercial radio license as a teenager and designed, installed and repaired public safety radios and marine electronics. He spent eleven years with the New York State Thruway Authority designing a new toll collection system to replace the aging electromechanical system, and adding E-ZPass. For the last twenty+ years Jim has been a member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty at Union College, specializing in radio communications, digital design, data communications and networking, and embedded systems.
