This months meeting will be a week early due to Memorial Day. We will be Meeting on May 20, 2024 at 7:00pm. at the Longwood Youth Sports Association building in Yaphank .
This months guest speaker will be Ken Neubeck , WB2AMU. His presentation will be about 6 meters, AKA the Magic Band.
Ken has presented to many clubs and organizations through out the years on this amazing topic. In addition he has also written a book on the subject. This book will be available at a special price for the Suffolk County Radio Club.
The Following is a Biograpghy on our Guest Speaker:
Ken, WB2AMU, was first licensed as WN2AMU in 1971 and upgraded to general in 1972 with new callsign WB2AMU. He became an extra class licensee in 1988.
He was a regular writer for both Worldradio and CQ VHF magazines for several years up to 2012, typically on VHF propagation modes. He has written the book, SIX METERS, A GUIDE TO THE MAGIC BAND (Worldradio), which first came out in 1994, followed by three subsequent editions. In addition, he was co-author with Gordon West, WB6NOA, on the book, VHF PROPAGATION, A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR RADIO AMATEURS (CQ Publications).
He is active in several of the ARRL annual contests, including the Ten Meter contest, the three yearly VHF contests and the two DX contest, and has placed in the top-ten in the QRP category in the US in these contests. He has achieved 5 Band DXCC.
He is a reliability engineer by profession, having worked on several military aircraft programs, such as the A-10 Warthog, and in addition to the two amateur radio books that he has written, he has written several books on military aircraft over the past 30 years
Special discount price of $10 for this book at WB2AMU’s Suffolk County Radio Club talk!