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Archives for April 2022

General Meeting Monday April 18, 2022 at 7:00PM

April 15, 2022 by John Comanzo

This SARA meeting will be Hybrid: in-person at Alplaus Fire House and via Zoom

7:00—8:30 PM ………….Speaker Presentation

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

Spy Radio Operations, Enigmas, and CIA Bugs

Speaker: Tom Perera, W1TP

Abstract: Tom will describe the desperate attempts by the resistance during WWII to build and hide secret radios so they could keep informed about the progress of the war. He will show how spies communicated critically important intelligence information back to the Allies while being ruthlessly hunted by direction-finding teams. The role of the Enigma and the latest CIA “bugs” and radios will also be described.

About our speaker: Tom is a retired professor of neuroscience. He has been an active ham for over 69 years while collecting, researching, lecturing and writing about WWII radios telegraph keys and German Enigma cipher machines.

His website, http://w1tp.com , shows and describes over 3000 telegraph keys and radios, and his online Enigma museum, http://EnigmaMuseum.com , shows Enigma history and technology.

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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