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RENOWNED TECHNICAL AUTHOR AND FELLOWSHIP VILLAGE RESIDENT FEATURED AT NATIONAL RADIO AMATEUR CONVENTION

BASKING RIDGE,NJ...Fellowship Village resident, Dr. Jerry Sevick, W2FMI was a featured speaker at the Radio Amateur Convention held in Dayton Ohio this spring. He is well known in technical circles for his pioneering work on "Broadband Transmission Line Transformers." He is the author of many books and papers on this subject and on the additional subject of "Short Ground Plane Antennas."

While at the convention, a I'book signing" was held by publisher, CO Communications for Dr. Sevick's latest books entitled: "Understanding, Building and Using Baluns and Ununs" and" The Short Vertical Antenna and Ground Radial."

Dr. Sevick holds a B.S. in education from Wayne State University and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Harvard University. He started his career at Detroit's Wayne State College where he taught physics. While there, he spent two years as a weatherman on ABC's Channel 7. In 1956 he joined the Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories where he supervised groups working in high frequency transistor and integrated circuit development, reliability, applications engineering, and high speed date transmission. He later served as Director of Technical Relations for A.T. & T. Bell Laboratories until his retirement in 1985.
Dr. Sevick not only remains active in technical matters but enjoys an active lifestyle at Fellowship Village. Besides being on the Board at the Somerset Hill YMCA in Basking Ridge, one of his favorite pastimes is ballroom dancing. To learn more about the many accomplishments of Dr. Jerry Sevick, go to the Web. Keyword: Jerry Sevick.

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