Speaker
May 27, 2025: Allen Wolff KC7O: Emergency power
This month Allen, KC7O, who has made several presentations to the Pasadena Radio Club over the years, will present something we all have to deal with at one time or another – Emergency Power. Allen will take you through the various ways to keep your equipment working and radios on-the-air that he has learned over his 61 years of Hamming. His goal is to encourage everyone to be prepared for themselves and family and to be able to help others during an extended power outage.
He is an ARRL Life Member, Extra class licensee and earned his First-Class FCC Radio Telephone License (now General Radio Telephone) in 1974.
Allen was first licensed as WN2NTL/ WB2NTL in New York in 1964, then as WB2NTL in New Jersey, WB9TXP in Indiana, KA7CGN and KC7O in Utah, and KC7O in California. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, RF Communications from Drexel University, Philadelphia PA.
Allen has over 45 years’ experience in aerospace manufacturing operations and quality management. He has worked on Apollo missions 9 through 14 as a communications interface engineer on the Lunar Module, military airborne communications systems, the MX missile guidance system, commercial and military aircraft hydraulic actuators, spacecraft deployment systems, titanium fuel tanks for satellites and launch vehicles, and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems, and a management, engineering and quality consultant. He is now retired.
He supports the local police by leading the Sierra Madre Emergency Communications Team and is a member of the Pasadena Radio Club. He enjoys travel and photography and has been in just about 50 Field Days and been a 1B Field Day station from 2007 to 2014 and a 1E, emergency power station, from his home QTH from 2015-2024 making around 250 contacts each year.
In 1999 he was awarded the Herb Brier Instructor of the Year award, from the ARRL, for 17 years of teaching Novice and Technician classes accounting for at least 450 new Ham Radio licenses. Over the years, his articles have appeared in QST, CQ and 73 magazines.