David Kazdan, amateur radio licensee AD8Y, will speak on the contemporary experience of amateur radio.  He has held amateur and commercial radio licenses since 1970, when he was eleven years old (getting the license isn't that hard!).  Amateur radio provided his pathway into his various career fields: His bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and in music are from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his doctor of medicine, University of Cincinnati, PhD in biomedical engineering Case Western Reserve University.  He was a faculty member of CWRU's School of Medicine and chief of the anesthesiology service, Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.  He is now adjunct assistant professor of electrical engineering at CWRU's Case School of Engineering and the faculty advisor of the Case Amateur Radio Club W8EDU.  He has led undergraduate and graduate students through NSF funded research on the nature of the ionosphere, as examined through high-frequency sounding using amateur radio signals and those from the National Institute of Science and Technology radio stations WWV, WWVH, and WWVB, plus those of the Canadian National Research Council CHU.

 

David Kazdan, MD, PhD is also a senior member, IEEE.  He may be the only person you'll meet today who holds a commercial radiotelegraph license. 

 

David will speak on why all of us should have amateur radio licenses--and how Cleveland IEEE may arrange for that through the Case Amateur Radio Club W8EDU.