Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers

The Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) hereby solicits papers for presentation at its 2014 Western Regional Conference to be held 22 and 23 March 2014. Our first day will be spent at Owens Valley Radio Observatory with presentations by SARA members and supporters and OVRO staff followed by a tour of the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) in the nearby mountains. Our second day will be at a conference room in Bishop with presentations by SARA members and supporters.

The 2014 SARA Western Regional Conference will be held at Bishop, California and the Owens Valley Radio Observatory on Saturday and Sunday, 22 and 23 March 2014. OVRO is operated by California Institute of Technology and is located about 11 airline miles southeast of Bishop (driving distance is closer to 20 miles).

SARA will hold a Western Conference at Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) near Bishop, California http://www.ovro.caltech.edu/ March 22 and 23, 2014. The conference will include tours of OVRO and CARMA (The Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy is an astronomical instrument comprising 23 radio telescopes.) http://www.mmarray.org/.

The following positions will be up for election in July 2013: Secretary, Treasurer, two Director at Large and two regular Directors. If you would like to run for one of the available SARA officer or board positions please send a note to Secretary Bill Seymour (secretary@radio-astronomy.org) copying President Bill Lord (president@radio-astronomy.org).