W6TRW General Meeting

October 9, 2018 Tuesday @ 6:00pm

QTH: Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance 

Veteran Deane Bouvier, N5DQ, will present

USAF MARS

The Military Auxiliary Radio System, a US DOD sponsored civilian program consisting of primarily licensed ham radio operators interested in assisting the military with communications on a local, national, and international basis as an adjunct to normal communications.
MARS has a long history of service to the nation. Its members work by the slogan “Proudly serving those who serve.”

Deane Bouvier, N5DQ

Deane was born in New Orleans, the youngest of three boys. His father was a TV repair technician, so Electrical Engineering in college was a natural. In college, he joined the ROTC and finished a 20 year career in the U.S. Air Force. Then Deane joined Hughes Space and Communications (now Boeing Satellite Development Center) and spent 18 years as an employee and another 4 years as a consultant building communications satellites.

Now fully retired, he is busier than ever; volunteering for Little Company of Mary Medical Centers, the City of Torrance and Los Angeles County Disaster Communications Service. All of these activities are centered on improving disaster communications for our community.