Saturday 3:00 PM
Kit Building Workshop - Sat 3-4 PM
Bob Phinney, K5TEC
[TEK,TNG] Beginners who need soldering instruction and practice are welcome to join us to build an easy beginner kit in under an hour. New England Sci-Tech volunteers will help anyone age 10 and up learn how. Choose from several kits - Morse Code Oscillator, Blinky Name Badge, Night Light, Spinning Top, FM Music Receiver – all kits were invented by students! Price per kit is between $5-$10, cash only. See our web site for details: http://nescitech.org/hamx
Time: 3:00 - 3:50 PM (50 mins)
Room: Atrium/Lobby
Power Line RFI hunting on the go
Rob Leiden, K1UI
[RFI] Case studies of finding power line RFI using laptop PCs, an HF transceiver and an inexpensive gps unit.
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM (60 mins)
Room: Salon B, E4
CT-POTA Activators Group
Shawn Warren, KC1NQE
The CT-POTA Activators Group was founded by N2YCH, K1PCN, and KC1NQE to bring activators together to share knowledge about our parks, setups, and overall knowledge of POTA. Learn how to organize multi-club events and activities to engage all license classes.
Time: 3:00 - 3:50 PM (50 mins)
Room: Princess, E9
Leasons Learned as a Ham for Broadcast RF and vice versa
Douglas Evans, K3DRE
[TEK] From broadcast radio, into ham radio and back. Doug takes a look at lessons learned in professional radio and how they lead him to ham radio. From there, he'll move to the things he learned as a ham that helped his career. Doug's been a lot of places and seen very interesting stuff, but found the basics of RF always apply. Today's modern digital broadcasting owes a lot to early hams
Time: 3:00 - 3:50 PM (50 mins)
Room: Wayland, W1
What's Noise? (repeat)
[TEK] Time: 3:00 - 3:00 PM ( mins)
Room: Sterling, W2
VarAC - Basic and Advanced Uses
Rory Griffin, W4RJG
[EMC] VarAC is a keyboard-to-keyboard communication tool using VARA, a high-performance HF software modem for fast, error free transmission. It is seeing rising acceptance and incorporation as an important new tool for EmComm use. This presentation will get you started with the setup and use of VaraAC.
Time: 3:00 - 3:50 PM (50 mins)
Room: Hudson, W3
Off Grid and Portable Operations, 2024 Update
[EM, OTA] This presentation builds on what I did in 2023. If you attended my show last year, this is new information for a Shack-in-a-Stack I made over last Winter that contains three radios, batteries, PWS, Emergency Sat Comms, antennas, a tablet for digital modes, and much more. I got a bit carried away. I have also added a section on my stealth install of an Icom IC-4100 in my car. Part 1 will go over what I talked about last year. All the notes for both sessions are in one handout. As I did last year, this presentation will happen off grid.
Time: 3:00 - 3:50 PM (50 mins)
Room: Boxborough, W5
New England Spectrum Management - Annual Meeting
Robert DeMattia, K1IW
[OTA] This is annual meeting of New England Spectrum Management (NESMC), the amateur radio repeater frequency coordinator for Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. Repeater owners, users, members, and non members are all invited.
Time: 3:00 - 3:50 PM (50 mins)
Room: Northborough, W7
Antenna Matching
[APP] This show-and-tell presentation builds on Dales Antenna Phasing demonstration, with an emphasis on various methods used for maximum energy transfer between an antenna and your radio. This is another NEQRP-sponsored talk intended to enthrall all HamXposition attendees.
Time: 3:00 - 3:50 PM (50 mins)
Room: Marlborough, W9