OCTOBER 7 BRARA GENERAL MEETING

Our BRARA monthly meeting will take place October 7th in person at the West Boca Branch of The Palm Beach County Library as well as on Zoom. People arrive in person between 6:00 – 6:30 PM and Zoom chat opens about 6:00 PM. The business portion of the meeting starts at 6:30 PM and the presentation begins around 7:00 PM.

Frank Haas KB4T has been licensed as an Amateur Radio Operator since April 1965. Haas earned both Amateur Extra Class and First Class Radiotelephone Operator’s Licenses in 1979.

Haas serves as the Technical Coordinator for ARRL’s North Florida Section. He recently retired from Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) as a Power Line Interference Investigator and Land Mobile Communications Specialist for FPL’s North Area. His work included servicing and maintaining sophisticated EDACS Trunked radio systems, P25 Digital Trunked radio systems, Microwave and Data communications systems.

Haas specialized in Power Line Interference Investigation and Mitigation. Over his 20-year career with FPL, Haas investigated hundreds of Interference issues, both power line related and non-power line related. He has a 99% successful resolution record. His success in this specialty won him a seat on the IEEE Working Group that recently published “Recommended Practices and Standards for Power Utilities”, the first document of its type ever created defining standards for the handling of power line interference complaints and resolutions.

Hams from around the United States contact Haas for assistance in resolving Interference issues of all types. While Ham Radio is his primary hobby, Haas is an Instrument Rated Private Pilot, former Real Estate Broker and Mortgage Broker and personal computing expert and consultant.

The meeting location is the Palm Beach County Library Boca West Branch, 18685 State Road 7, Boca Raton, FL 33498

ZOOM Meeting ID: 865 5255 5294

Passcode: 123456