Join the Sci-Tech Amateur Radio Society (STARS) on Tuesday, September 23 at 7 PM for a presentation by Rich Assarabowski, K1CC, Roman Ganovych, US5WDX entitled “Youth radio clubs in Lviv Ukraine” live and via Zoom.
Description:
In May 2025, Rich and his family made a brief five-day visit to Lviv Ukraine where he visited several youth-oriented radio clubs. Rich’s escort was his old friend, Roman US5WDX. This presentation will show highlights of that trip, which included a visit to Dobromil, a small town where Rich’s father was born. Of particular significance and interest was the Lwow Radio Club, founded in 1926. Rich’s grand-uncle SP2CC (then TPJU) was a radio pioneer and one of the very early members. As we all know, these are difficult times in Ukraine. Roman will describe the activities of various clubs (UR4WZ, UR4WXN, UR4WXQ and UY4WWA) and their efforts in bringing young people into the hobby. There will be plenty of photos and Roman will be online during this Zoom meeting to answer any questions.
Rich K1CC biography:
Rich was licensed in 1964 as a 13-year old, inspired by his grand-uncle SP2CC who visited Rich and helped get him on the air. Rich immediately became interested in DX’ing and contesting. Contesting remains his primary interest in this hobby to this day. Rich graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic in 1974 with a civil engineering degree and went to MIT for his graduate degree. He worked for United Technologies for 23 years in the Research Center and 10 years in their fuel cell division as an engineer.
Roman US5WDX biography:
Roman’s first HF QSO’s were in 1982 at the age of 12 at the local youth military-technical training radio club UK5WAT (later UB4WWT, now UR4WWT). In 1990 he applied for an individual call sign – RB5WDX (now US5WDX). Roman has been enjoying HF/VHF DX’ing and contesting ever since. Roman’s alma mater was Lviv Polytechnical Institute, department of radio electronics design and manufacturing technology. He worked as an engineer in both Ukraine and abroad. Since the mid-2000’s, Roman has been an entrepreneur, mainly in radiocommunications, including manufacturing, service and sales of ham radio amplifiers and vintage RF components.
Donation:
STARS is partnering with Rich K1CC to donate radios to some youth ham clubs in Ukraine. The radios will be hand carried by Rich’s brother on a flight in mid-October. The ultimate destination for this equipment is UR4WWE is located in a school for children with congenital heart defects and the kids are very involved in the club. UR4WXQ and UR4WXN are both youth-oriented clubs, see details on https://www.qrz.com/db/UR4WXQ.
[For Zoom information, contact Bob Phinney, K5TEC, at <bobphinney@nescitech.org>.]