

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The World’s First Synthesized Handie Talkie
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 23 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: FARS Membership Meeting. Guests and visitors are welcome.

Ed Fong, WB6IQN, will tell the story of the World’s first VHF frequency-synthesized handie talkie. The year was 1979. The radio was introduced as the Henry “Tempo S1.” However, it was really a rebranding of a design own by AOR Inc. AOR was a design house with offices in Tustin, CA, and in Tokyo, Japan. The radio’s synthesizer locked from 140-160 MHz, state-of-the-art at the time. Equally challenging was designing the circuit to work at less than 10 mA current draw. Ed will bring prototype serial # 0001 and demonstrate that it still works to original factory specifications. Ed will tell the interesting story of the Tempo S1 and his work on the innovative PLL for this radio.

Simulcast on Zoom.

Details at https://www.fars.k6ya.org/meeting/meeting2026
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- **Event Categories**: meetups, art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 2

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Los Altos
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Covington Elementary
- **lat**: 37.371410250504
- **long**: -122.10708349247
- **full address**: Covington Elementary, 205 Covington Road,Los Altos, California, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Foothills Amateur Radio Society - FARS - K6YA (https://allevents.in/org/foothills-amateur-radio-society-fars-k6ya/26481025)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 23 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Covington Elementary, 205 Covington Road,Los Altos, California, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Foothills Amateur Radio Society - FARS - K6YA
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** meetups, art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about The World’s First Synthesized Handie Talkie ?
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