This year, it isn’t just a FARS banquet – we are co-sponsoring the event. Come on out and enjoy the evening! Just be sure to bring cash for the raffle, as the ATM was recently removed.
Date: Friday, January 19.
Signup deadline: Postal, January 12, online January 15.
Location:
Michael’s at Shoreline
2960 No. Shoreline Blvd
Mountain View, CA
650-962-1014
Further information signup link, raffle prizes etc.:
http://www.fars.k6ya.org/events/banquet
The raffle 1st prize will be an Elecraft KX2 transceiver.
Schedule: 6:00PM – Open Bar (No Host)
7:00PM – Dinner
8:00PM – Presentation
9:00PM – Announcements, Awards, Raffle
Presentation Title: The Pre-Silicon History of Radio in Santa Clara Valley and the Peninsula
Summary: Early radio development history including local figures Lee De Forest, Charles “Doc” Herrold and others.
About the Speaker: Mike Adams has been a radio personality and a film maker. Currently he is professor emeritus of radio, television, and film at San Jose State University, where he has been a department chair and the Associate Dean of the College of Humanities and the Arts. Adams has taught at the Shanghai Theatre Academy School of Television and Film. As a researcher and writer of broadcast and early technology history, he created two award-winning documentaries for PBS, the Emmy-nominated “Radio Collector,” and “Broadcasting’s Forgotten Father.” Mike is the Board Chair of the California Historical Radio Society, CHRS. For his service to historical radio research and publication he received the AWA (Antique Wireless Association) Houck Award, the SCARS (Southern California Historical Radio Society) President’s Award, the TCA (Tube Collectors of America) Stokes Award, the RCA (Radio Club of America) Ralph Batcher Award, and he was named a CHRS History Fellow. He has had published numerous articles and six books, including Lee de Forest, King of Radio, Television and Film, 2012, Springer Science, The Radio Boys and Girls: Radio, Telegraph, Telephone and Wireless Adventures for Juvenile Readers, 1890-1945, McFarland Press, 2015, and Columbus Radio, Arcadia, 2016.