This SARA meeting will be held at the Alplaus Fire House and will also be available via Webex
7:00—8:30 PM ………….Speaker Presentation
(Link to be sent out separately prior to the meeting)
The 10 Worst Antennas for Amateur Radio and How You Can Do Better!
Speaker: Anthony Luscre, K8ZT
Abstract:
Antennas are often one of the biggest obstacles to new hams getting on the air. There is also a lot of hyperbole and false statements about antennas. We will go through the 10 worst antennas and how you can do much better.
About our speaker:
First licensed in 1981 as KA8NRC, Anthony has been a QRP operator since his first HF QSO. No one told him Novices should not start with a 2-watt QRP rig. After updating to an Extra Class License, he changed his call sign to K8ZT in June 2000. Anthony and his wife Linda, KA8ODP, live near Akron, Ohio.
He is active in a variety of Amateur Radio activities, but his favorite activities are operating and teaching others about the hobby.
Whether contesting, DXing, rag chewing, satellites, HF or VHF/UHF, CW, Phone or Digital, the QRP contacts now top 115,000. First drawn to contesting by his love of working DX, he has consistently finished in the top ten of various major contests and finished first in the World and US in both CQ Worldwide Phone and CW QRP categories multiple times. As a bonus, his QRP DXCC total recently topped the 328 mark, and he has completed 11-band WAS.
Anthony has presented over 500 sessions since the beginning of COVID-19. He has presented multiple times for Contest University, QSO Today Expo, Dayton Hamvention Antenna Forum, ARRL & RSGB Webinars and RATPAC.us. He does a weekly class, “The Joy of Operating,” for the Long Island CW Club and is a member of the planning committees for RATPAC and the State QSO Party Challenge.
Now retired, Anthony’s work background includes 20 years as a Medical Technologist in Clinical Microbiology, private computer consulting, and 20 years as a Computer Technology Coordinator and Technology Director (most recently as a Technology Integration Specialist for 30 school districts). Anthony also volunteers as a Trainman on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad.
Anthony serves as ARRL Ohio Section Youth Coordinator and an Officer in his local radio club. He enjoys sharing his Amateur Radio interests with others by maintaining a website, www.k8zt.com, writing articles for a variety of publications, including CQ Magazine (column “Ham Radio Explorer”), DX Engineering blog “On All Bands” and developing an online course “Introduction to Contesting” for the ARRL Learning Network. Anthony is a 2024 Hamvention® Special Achievement Award winner.
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).