Membership Meeting: Wednesday, 17 September 2025 ~7:30 – 9:30 pm
“Technicians, Life Beyond Repeaters,” Anthony Luscre, K8ZT
This is a Hybrid meeting: New England Sci-Tech + ZOOM
New England Sci-Tech, 16 Tech Circle, Natick, MA 01760
Members: log into your account on MMRA.ORG to obtain the ZOOM info.
The session will examine the historical and current status of Technician Class allocations and operating in the USA. We also explore operations beyond VHF/UHF Repeaters, including:
* Technician HF Allocations: 10 M SSB & Data | 80, 40, 15 & 10 M CW
* VHF/UHF Activities: Simplex (FM, SSB) | Digital (FT8/FT4, VARA FM)
* Satellites | 6 Meters | EchoLink | APRS | Fox Hunting | EME (Earth-Moon-Earth)
* Contesting
* Amateur Radio Mash Ups
First licensed in 1981 as KA8NRC, Anthony has been a QRP operator from his very first QSO and became K8ZT in June 2000 after updating to Extra Class. His favorite Ham activity is operating! Whether it is contesting, DXing or rag chewing, satellites, etc. CW Phone or Digital, the QRP contacts have added up and now top 115,000. First drawn to contesting by his love of working DX, he has consistently finished in the top ten of various major contests and finished first in the World and US in both CQ Worldwide Phone and CW QRP categories multiple times. As a bonus, his QRP DXCC total recently topped the 328 mark, and he has completed 11-band WAS QRP.
Now retired, Anthony’s background includes 20 years as a Medical Technologist working in Clinical Microbiology and private computer consulting and 20 years as a Computer Technology Coordinator, most recently as a Technology Integration Specialist for 30 school districts. His retirement activities include volunteering as a Trainman on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad. His small suburban lot is cramped with a modest array of antennas, proving that you can be competitive in contests without acres of aluminum if you choose your entry category carefully.
Anthony currently serves as ARRL Ohio Section Youth Coordinator. He enjoys sharing his Amateur Radio interests with others by maintaining a website, k8zt.com, writing articles for various publications, the D Engineering blog “On All Bands,” and developing an online course, “Introduction to Contesting,” for the ARRL. He has done over 400 club presentations and classes virtually in multiple states and countries.
In 2024, Anthony was awarded the Dayton Hamvention Special Achievement Award for his work in presentations to clubs around the world.