I am pleased to announce that Bill Mader, K8TE, will present to the Club on HF Propagation Fact vs Hype and Misunderstanding. Here is Bill’s BIO from his QRZ page:
Presenter’s Bio:
Appointed to a third term as ARRL Section Manager for New Mexico, I am honored to serve in that capacity. I attended the annual meeting for Section Managers in 2017 where we met the staff and key players. Your ARRL is in good hands! I enjoy meeting hams and attending clubs’ meetings and hamfests in NM (and elsewhere) and look forward to meeting many more of you. Please add K8TE@ARRL.org to your club’s newsletter. Although I have been an ARRL Life Member since 1976, I continue supporting ARRL as a Diamond Club member.
I give lots of presentations to local clubs, at hamfests across the southwest, and on-line. I plan to give five new presentations at QuartzFest 2024. I like to share what I have learned for others to enjoy the varied aspects of our great avocation. If you need a club program, contact me and I’ll provide the list of my presentations. Do you want to know more about a particular subject, let me know. I probably have a presentation ready or one I can update for you.
I was first licensed in Feb 1960 as WV2RBF then upgraded to General in Oct to WA2RBF. I changed to WA8WWM in 1967 when I moved from Syracuse NY to Detroit MI to manage the first Radio Shack in that State. In 1973 I joined the USAF and received KZ5WA at my first duty station in the (then) Panama Canal Zone in 1974. My career field was Ground Radio Maintenance, 304X4, of all things! I operated an FT-101D into a Collins 237B log periodic for occasional contesting, obtaining my first SS Clean Sweep mug, easier as a KZ5.
I was the leadoff “professor” at DX University at the Duke City Hamfest/ARRL Rocky Mountain Division convention in Albuquerque for Aug 2014, Contest Academy lead “professor” for 2015, gave another presentation at DX University for Ham-Con Colorado in May 2016, presented several times at Ham-Com, and did eight presentations at HF University at the DCHF 2017, 2018, and again in 2019. I gave eight more presentations at QuartzFest 2017 on various subjects and did ten more in 2018. I, along with AK6R and K3LR, led off the IDXC 2018 presentations Friday afternoon. I returned as a presenter at Ham-Com 2018 and 2019 in Plano TX. We have run three years of HF University at the DCHF and hope to do more for 2024. I presented again in Visalia at the IDXCC for DX University in 2023.
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I am looking forward to “seeing” many of you there on Wednesday 7/10 at 1900.
Doug, N1WRN
President, Billerica Amateur Radio Society
