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RCA’s Virtual Interview Series Continues
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eginning last August, the Radio Club of America (RCA) launched a new webcast interview series available for members and the general public. The series has met with great success, and we encourage all of our members and guests to attend this ongoing series on the 2nd Tuesday of even months, at 9 PM ET/EDT. RCA president emeritus Tim Duffy, K3LR, hosts, and each interview runs approximately 1 hour. The interviews are alternated with online RCA networking sessions. Past guests have included a range of notables: • Dr. Theodore “Ted” Rappaport, N9NB, the David Lee/ Ernst Weber Professor at New York University (NYU), founder and director of NYU WIRELESS, and a wireless entrepreneur, educator, and innovator • Engineer Angel Vasquez, WP3R ex-KP3AP, the Telescope Operations Head/Spectrum Manager of Arecibo Observatory, responsible for tracking exoplanets, pulsars, quasars, asteroids and the mysterious Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) pulses • Margaret Lyons, P.E., a trailblazer with industry experience with two-way radios, paging, and microwave radio systems engineering and consulting, she is Engineer of Record for programs and projects in excess of $100M. • John Facella, P.E., C.Eng., K9FJ, current President of RCA, his career in wireless has spanned over 35 years, including 28 years with Motorola and Harris Corporation, and as a wireless and management consultant • Ken Claerbout, Acting Chief of the Broadcast Technologies Division for Global Media (USAGM), starting with the Diplomatic Telecommunications Service in the early 1980s, he is now responsible for USAGM’s global FM broadcast network with over 100 stations worldwide
Tim Duffy.
Discussions center on careers in wireless, life-long passion for radio, views on industry trends and outlooks for technology, and on the current work the guests are undertaking as well as their history with RCA. If you missed any of these interviews, they are available on the RCA Youtube page at https://bit.ly/3tjFooc. Tim Duffy is assisted by Barney Scholl, RCA Vice President and Counsel, and RCA Member Scott Jones who act as moderators and host the questions and answers. RCA plans many more of these exciting virtual activities. Please see https://bit.ly/3tmrJgb for further announcements.
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