Signal/One Cofounder Harold Johnson, W4ZCB, SK

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Harold Johnson, W4ZCB, of Hendersonville, North Carolina, passed away on 11th October 2019. An ARRL Life Member, he was 92. Johnson was a veteran homebrew enthusiast and a cofounder of Signal/One, which introduced a line of cutting-edge, top-tier Amateur Radio transceivers in the late 1960s, starting with the CX7.

After his initial retirement, Johnson went to work at Electronic Communications Inc. (ECI), — a division of NCR that became Signal/One — in Florida as a part of the team that designed and built the original Signal/One transceiver, the CX7. Johnson managed CX7 production and later introduced hypersil transformers to the Ehrhorn line of Alpha amplifiers.

Johnson graduated from Oklahoma State University with a BS in electrical engineering and went on to earn a Master’s at the Air Force Institute. He served for 26 years in the US Air Force as a pilot and engineer. He was a member of the Quarter Century Wireless Association.

2019 AMSAT Board of Directors Annouced

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The results of the 2019 AMSAT Board of Directors meeting vote for Officers:

  • Joe Spier, K6WAO, of Reno, NV, as President

  • Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, of Washington, DC, as Executive Vice President

  • Jerry Buxton, N0JY, of Granbury, TX, as Vice-President Engineering

  • Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, of New Port Richey, FL, as Vice-President Operations

  • Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, of Silver Spring, MD, as Vice-President Human Spaceflight

  • Robert Bankston, KE4AL, of Dothan, AL as Vice-President User Services

  • Frank Karnauskas, N1UW, of Burnsville, MN as Vice-President Development

  • Brennan Price, N4QX, of Vienna, VA, as Secretary

  • Robert Bankston, KE4AL, of Dothan, AL, as Treasurer

  • Martha Saragovitz of Silver Spring, MD, as Manager

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