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Archives for January 2022

General Meeting Monday January 17, 2022 at 7:00PM

January 3, 2022 by John Comanzo

The January SARA meeting will be held via Zoom

7:00—8:30 PM (via Zoom)………….Speaker Presentation

(Zoom link to be sent out separately prior to the meeting)

A Million Watts of RF!

Speaker: Lauren Libby, WØLD, President and CEO, Trans World Radio

Abstract: What does a million watt transmitter look like? We’ll get an inside look at one of the largest shortwave broadcasters in the world as Trans World Radio International President Lauren Libby, WØLD, takes us on a global tour of their transmitters and broadcast and media operation that speaks to 175 countries in 230 languages daily.

About our speaker: Lauren has been a licensed Radio Amateur since age 12. He has held the amateur call signs WNØLSH, WAØLSH, KXØO, V31JO, CO2/KXØO, PJ4V, and WØLD. He has been to over 90 countries, visiting many international amateur radio operators.

Lauren has been an active VHF/UHF amateur since he has been licensed and holds WAS/WAC on 2 meters and WAS on 6 meters. He has served twice as president of the Central States VHF Society. He was awarded the Mel Wilson award for service to the VHF/UHF community. He was elected to membership in the Radio Club of America. Lauren chaired the VUAC (VHF/UHF Advisory Committee) of the ARRL in the 1990s and 2000s. Some of Lauren’s current interests include EME, highpower tropo experiments, contesting, and digital communication on the amateur bands.

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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