Interview Series

If there is something we’ve learned from the pandemic, it’s the power and potential of on-line connections. The RCA Interview Series taps into that, offering the chance to listen in on conversations with a wide range of industry professionals, who also happen to be some of the most interesting people in wireless.  Held quarterly, these Zoom call interviews give you the chance to get to know intriguing people, ask questions via the session moderator, and learn what inspires and motivates some of the biggest names in wireless and do it all in a relaxed and casual setting.  Interviews are conducted by RCA President John Facella, and attendance is free and open to the public, although registration is required. 

Nathaniel Frissell, Ph.D., W2NAF, is an Associate Professor of Physics and Engineering at The University of Scranton. Dr. Frissell’s research interests include space weather and radio science, with a focus on traveling ionospheric disturbances and High Frequency (HF) radio propagation. His teaching interests include digital signal processing, electromagnetics, communications systems, and space physics/space weather. Dr. Frissell’s passion for radio and radio science began in middle school when he was introduced to the amateur (ham) radio hobby through scouting. He eventually went on to earn his B.S. in Music Education and Physics from Montclair State University, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech working in the Virginia Tech Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) laboratory. Dr. Frissell founded and now leads the NASA, NSF, and ARDC-supported Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI.org) citizen science community. Dr. Frissell is the advisor for the W3USR University of Scranton Amateur Club, an IEEE senior member, and a member of the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame. He is a winner of the 2017 Yasme Foundation Excellence award, the 2019 Dayton Amateur Radio Association Amateur of the Year Award, and the 2025 Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) Les Barclay Memorial Award for Radio Propagation.