Ever wonder takes place after you submit a log in a contest and before the results are produced? Bill will give you a behind-the-scenes look as to what takes place after the contest, plus before and during the contest. Bill shares his experience as manager of the North American QSO Party Phone and Minnesota QSO …
A look at the four ARRL operating awards (DXCC, VUCC, WAC, WAS); a bit about their history; and ways to qualify and apply for each award.
This session provides an overview of many amateur radio digital modes in use today. This session will focus on keyboard-to-keyboard digital modes. From old-school modes, like RTTY and AX.25 Packet, to more modern modes, such as VarAC. This session will help to navigate the current state of digital modes for those looking to broaden their …
Getting started with Parks on the Air is easy, and although getting started may seem a bit intimidating, this session will help you learn about how POTA works, how you can participate as a hunter/chaser, and gain the confidence you need to get out to a park and have your own activation.
If you are newly licensed, and you only had $100, how would you get on the air?
This session is purely “hands-on”. I started this “Morse Code Youth Outreach ” effort decades ago. The mission statement has always been exposure to Morse, to provide an informed “taste” of Morse code to allow “yes”, “no”, or “perhaps” further investigation of the activity. The exposure to Morse is my aim and desire here. They …
TCFMC repeater system built on a Pi 3B+ with Full GUI, Compiler, SuperMon and functioning system. We will have a brief demo with a remote control demonstration. This will include a review of the issues we went through to make this all work with a Yaesu DR-2X repeater that works in FM and C4 on …
The youth lounge is new this year and will have multiple youth-friendly activities. There will be games for prizes, hands-on activities and drawings for prizes from our sponsors. We will also have information on many different topics including how to obtain a license, learn morse code and phonetics, digital operations, satellite operations, Summits On The …
This is an introductory-level presentation on the NEC antenna modeling package, available for free on multiple platforms. NEC allows you to model almost any antenna design to understand its operation and performance. This is NOT a comprehensive treatise on how NEC works; the scope of such a presentation is far beyond the time we have. …
