NOVEMBER 4 BRARA GENERAL MEETING

Our BRARA monthly meeting will take place November 4th 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. Our November speaker is Eric Swartz, WA6HHQ from Elecraft.

Eric Swartz, WA6HHQ, is Elecraft’s Chief Operating Officer, a co-designer of Elecraft’s K4 and other transceivers, and co-founder of Elecraft in 1998 with Wayne Burdick, N6KR. Licensed for over 48 years, he credits his early interest in Amateur Radio with leading him to a career in electronic design and management. He received a B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University and has been involved in a number of successful Silicon Valley startups. Prior to Elecraft, Eric was co-founder and President of Verisys, a test equipment manufacturer of high-performance protocol analyzers for the mass storage market.

Wayne and Eric have both been inducted into the QRP Hall of Fame, and also jointly received the ARRL’s Technical Excellence Award in 2001 for their Elecraft designs

Here’s the Zoom agenda for his presentation:

Eric Swartz, WA6HHQ, Elecraft Co-Founder, will discuss:

v    K4 Transceiver

v    K4 Software Releases & Updates

v    K4/0 Remote System

v    Q&A on all Elecraft products

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