This SARA meeting will be held at the Alplaus Fire Station* and will also be available via Zoom
7:00—8:30 PM (via Zoom)………….Speaker Presentation
(Zoom link to be sent out separately prior to the meeting)
Today’s Kit Industry: Build Your Own Radios!
Speaker: Neil Goldstein, W2NDG
Abstract: Neil will take us on a tour of the radio kit market, and present some tips and tricks for acquiring and building old and new kits.
About our speaker: Neil Goldstein, W2NDG, has been tinkering with radios since the early seventies when he used to hang out in his uncle’s ham shack in CT (W1PVC sk). These days, he can be found in the Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains with a QRP radio, or sitting at his workbench amidst a cloud of solder smoke.
After first getting licensed in 2011 as KD2APZ, he started looking for ways to merge his two hobbies: computers and radio. Now, a holder of an Extra Class license, he experiments with SDR, rig control, digital modes, and still has a well-used soldering iron. Neil is active in the OMARC, and QSY Society clubs, has written for AmateurRadio.com as well as The Spectrum Monitor, and frequently presents at various club meetings on computer-related subjects.
Neil maintains radiokitguide.com, the complete list of radio kit sources on the Internet.
*Note: The meeting location is 309 Alplaus Ave, Alplaus, NY, and the building is at the corner of Alplaus Avenue and Bruce Drive. Please park in the paved lot adjacent to this building. Do not park in the restricted area in front of the building that houses the fire trucks. We will meet in the Multipurpose Room (entrance is on the North side of this building).