About Us
Paul Hrivnak N8PH
President & CEO
Chief Engineer
Palstar President and CEO, Paul Hrivnak, started his career as an electrical engineer in the automotive industry with his first job at the Ford Motor Company in Detroit, Michigan. He then moved to cable broadcasting and invented the very first infra-red remote control for use in cable television, which his company sold to Philips. His first amateur radio start-up was Vectronics back in the 1980s. In the 1990s, he became a U.S. citizen and started Palstar Incorporated in Piqua, OH. A lifetime of excellence in engineering is inside every Palstar product and one of the things Paul enjoys most is speaking directly to customers who are considering purchasing a Palstar product or discussing technical issues related to amateur radio.
Paul is also an accomplished classical violinist and once owned a violin made when J.S. Bach was three-years of age and has played on the world's best violins including Stradivarius and Guarneri violins, and other modern master violin makers.
Eva Hrivnak
Vice-President
Treasurer
Palstar Vice-President, Eva Hrivnak, was born to a large family and grew up in Budapest, Hungary. Along with her husband, Paul, she became a U.S. citizen in the 1990s and devoted herself fully to her responsibilities at Palstar, Inc. She holds an Associate of Applied Science degree from an American college and is a member of the Phi Theta Kappa Society. She is an avid painter and has won several competitions for her work.
9676 Looney Rd,
Piqua, Ohio 45356-9522
All Palstar Products are designed and manufactured in the USA.
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