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Amateur Radio Parity Act Would Not Void "Private Contracts," ARRL
General Counsel Says
Hiram Percy Maxim Award Recipient Anna Veal, W0ANT, Sets Sights on
Biomedical Career
California ARES Volunteers Support Wildfire Response
Fox-1A Satellite Mated to Launcher, Fox-1B Gets a Ride
Chinese Amateur Radio Satellites Set to Launch in Early September
Additional ARRL Books Now Available as E-Books
JH5GHM Donates Foot Switches to W1AW
Researchers Decode CASSIOPE Satellite Field Day Fly-Over Experiment
Results
In Brief...
The K7RA Solar Update
Just Ahead in Radiosport
Upcoming ARRL Section, State, and Division Conventions and Events
Amateur Radio Parity Act Would Not Void "Private Contracts," ARRL
General Counsel Says
ARRL General Counsel Chris Imlay, W3KD, has rebutted assertions,
expressed by some, that the Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015 would
represent an unlawful intrusion into "private contracts" and would
invalidate architectural limitations and rules regarding the
installation of ham radio antennas in residential neighborhoods. Imlay
said the argument raised is that no federal legislation should alter
private land-use restrictions, since these are contractual
obligations. "The contractual characteristic of private land-use
regulation has not existed in the United States for a great many
years," he pointed out. Imlay recently expanded on the topic during a
lengthy interview with HamRadioNow webcast host Gary Pearce, KN4AQ.
"A contract requires a meeting of the minds between the two parties,"
Imlay said in his interview with Pearce, which also included ARRL
Hudson Division Director Mike Lisenco, N2YBB, a prime mover of the
legislation. With no opportunity to negotiate, "you don't have a
contractual relationship at all. Instead, what you have is a
preclusion."
Rather than contracts, Imlay explained, private land-use restrictions
are limitations placed on the use of land long before the buyer ever
shows up, and they have become increasingly difficult to avoid. With
more and more neighborhoods imposing CC&Rs, the only choice a radio
amateur has, Imlay told Pearce, is to buy or not to buy a dwelling in
a community that may prohibit antennas completely.
The legislation -- H.R. 1301 and S. 1685 -- calls on the FCC to apply
the three-point test of the federal PRB-1 preemption policy to private
land-use restrictions. Imlay said its passage would not mean that hams
living in neighborhoods governed by CC&Rs could erect any antenna they
wished. The obligation a homeowners association would have under the
bill is not to prohibit but to make reasonable accommodation for some
sort of effective outdoor Amateur Radio antenna, imposing the least
practicable restriction to accomplish the association's aesthetic
purposes, he explained.
ARRL Hudson Division Director Mike Lisenco, N2YBB (left), and ARRL
General Counsel Chris Imlay, W3KD, appeared recently on Ham Radio Now.
The legal underpinning of the Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015 is well
established, Imlay pointed out, and private land-use regulations must
give way when they conflict with federal telecommunications policy.
"It was held a long time ago by the US Supreme Court that federal
communications policy trumps even private land-use regulations," Imlay
told Pearce. "That's not a taking of land under the Constitution. It's
simply a supervening authority." Imlay said that private land-use
regulations that conflict with expressed federal telecommunications
policy are subject to pre-emption, which would restore private
property rights to the landowner. The FCC, he explained, is not
hostile to the bill, but it has indicated that it would prefer to have
some guidance from Congress -- which does have the power to act --
before amending the Amateur Radio Service Part 97 rules.
Several years ago, the FCC established the OTARD rule that lets
residents living in deed-restricted communities install over-the-air
television or radio reception devices, such as a satellite dish, but
it does not apply to Amateur Radio antennas. Imlay said this precedent
applies to the Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015, and that the FCC was
comfortable with the guidance it got from Congress at the time with
respect to OTARD.
"There is no difference in the effect on the strong interest in
Amateur Radio communications, whether or not an amateur station is
precluded by a zoning regulation...or by a deed restriction," Imlay
said in the interview. "The effect is the same: The ham can't build a
station."
"We have until the end of 2016 to get this bill passed, and we have
every intention of doing that," he assured Pearce.
Full information on The Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015 is on the
ARRL website.
Hiram Percy Maxim Award Recipient Anna Veal, W0ANT, Sets Sights on
Biomedical Career
Licensed since 2008 when she was just 8 years old, the young winner of
the 2014 ARRL Hiram Percy Maxim Award, Anna Veal, W0ANT, of Littleton,
Colorado, already has an enviable list of accomplishments to her
credit. The HPM Award, the League's top youth recognition, is awarded
annually to a radio amateur and ARRL member under the age of 21, whose
accomplishments and contributions to the Amateur Radio and local
communities "should be of the most exemplary nature." The winner
receives $1,500 and an engraved plaque. A rising sophomore at STEM
School and Academy in Highlands Ranch, she is co-founder of the
school's Spartan Amateur Radio Club (AB0BX), which nominated her, and
she has served as its president. She envisions a career in the
biomedical sciences.
ARRL Hiram Percy Maxim Award Winner Anna Veal, W0ANT. [Peggy Veal,
KD0ISN, photo]
"I would like to attend Colorado State University and study biomedical
engineering," she told ARRL. "Since I'm a diabetic and have been on an
insulin pump for a couple of years now, I've seen how biomedical
engineers help peoples' lives, and I want to be able to be a part of
that."
Anna will serve as ham radio team captain at the 2015 Juvenile
Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Denver "OneWalk" on September 13.
Later the same month, she'll participate in her second Tour de Cure
cycling event, sponsored by the American Diabetes Association, for
which she serves as a youth ambassador.
In addition to these community activities and her involvement with her
school's Amateur Radio club, she's looking forward to technology
competitions with the Technology Student Association (TSA) "and
continuing to learn the guitar and piano."
Anna's is a ham radio family. Her mother and father, Paul, N0AH, and
Peggy, KD0ISN, are both educators and ARRL Teachers Institute on
Wireless Technology alumni.
Anna, who turns 15 this month, has begun to rack up an admirable
contesting and DXpeditioning resume. "When I was younger I really
enjoyed participating in the ARRL Rookie Roundup," she said, "and this
year, we worked the ARRL Sweepstakes phone competition under the
school category, and at home the ARRL 10 Meter Contest as part of a
multiop team." She's already attended two Contest University (CTU)
sessions and is a regular presence at Dayton Hamvention, where she was
presented with the 2011 Radio Club of America Young Achiever's Award.
She was named the 2015 Amateur Radio Newsline "Young Ham of the Year,"
and will travel to Huntsville, Alabama, this month to accept the
award. She also was a team member on the 2011 Youth DX Adventure at
TI5N.
ARRL Colorado Section Manager Jack Ciaccia, WM0G, sang Anna's praises
in an attachment to her HPM Award application, calling her "one of the
most qualified candidates I believe we may ever see for this award"
and "one of our best ambassadors of young people in ham radio."
In naming Anna as the 2014 HPM Award recipient, the ARRL Board of
Directors cited her "enormous degree of involvement, service, and
leadership throughout the Amateur Radio community" as well as her
contest and DXpedition participation and her presentations at ham
radio gatherings. The Board said she has "provided leadership and a
positive example within her Amateur Radio community and among her
peers."
Her dad was more succinct. "We are very proud of her!" he told ARRL.
California ARES Volunteers Support Wildfire Response
Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) volunteers in Butte County,
California, responded on July 29 to a Red Cross request to support
communication at an evacuation shelter in Oroville during the Swedes
Fire. Butte County Emergency Coordinator Scott Petersen, KE6VUS, said
several ARES operators were called via a newly developed telephone
tree. Volunteers used the W6SCR repeater, initially for a logistics
net and later for point-to-point contacts.
Assistant EC Dale Anderson, KK6EVX, was on site in Oroville within an
hour of callout at 1600 local, Peterson said, adding, "he had to
travel a bit to get there." Peterson arrived on the scene at 1845
local, and the facility was staffed until 2130 local, at which time
the communications section was released from service and the gear
broken down and packed. Peterson said the Butte County ARES
communications van was not utilized for this event. In all, seven ARES
members participated in the activation.
According to Cal Fire, the Swedes Fire -- one of many in California in
recent days -- burned over 400 acres, destroying two residences and 14
other structures. That fire was contained as of August 3, although
fire crews remain in the area.
The Swedes Fire was among the smaller blazes that have popped up this
summer on the West Coast -- most of them in California, where some
13,000 residents have been ordered to evacuate as firefighters work to
contain about 20 wildfires. The largest -- the Rocky Fire north of San
Francisco -- already covers more than 100,000 square miles. -- Thanks
to ARRL Sacramento Valley Section news; Cal Fire
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Fox-1A Satellite Mated to Launcher, Fox-1B Gets a Ride
AMSAT has reported that its Fox-1A CubeSat has been "mated" to the
Centaur rocket in preparation for launch late next month from
Vandenburg Air Force Base in California. NASA also alerted AMSAT on
August 3 that the Fox-1B (RadFxSat -- Radiation Effects Satellite)
CubeSat has a ride on a Delta II launcher with a NOAA spacecraft, due
to go into space in late 2016. The availability arose because other
CubeSats had dropped off the flight manifest.
Both satellites will go aloft as part of the NASA Educational Launch
of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) program, which offers free launches to
educational entities and encourages science missions. AMSAT has been
developing a family of CubeSats with Amateur Radio payloads that can
support advanced science experiments, and it has been working with
universities on scientific and educational missions that fit the ELaNa
mold.
"This provides us with a way to put ham radio transponders into orbit
and provides our university partners with a reliable platform for
space-based research projects," AMSAT said on its "Meet the Fox
Project" web page.
The Fox-1A mission hosts a Penn State student experiment involving
micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) gyros. Fox-1B/RadFxSat is a
joint mission by AMSAT and the Institute for Space and Defense
Electronics at Vanderbilt University.
The Fox-1A satellite will include a Mode B (U/V) FM transponder with
an uplink frequency of 435.180 MHz, and a downlink frequency of
145.980 MHz and capabilities similar to those of the AO-51 satellite,
which went dark in late 2011. Fox-1B also will offer a Mode B FM
transponder (435.250 MHz up/145.960 MHz down, pending coordination).
The first phase of the Fox series 1-Unit CubeSats will allow simple
ground stations using handheld transceiver and simple dual-band
antennas to make contacts. Read more. -- Thanks to AMSAT News Service
via AMSAT Vice President-Engineering Jerry Buxton, N0JY and NASA
Chinese Amateur Radio Satellites Set to Launch in Early September
China's Amateur Satellite Group CAMSAT said this week that nine
satellites carrying Amateur Radio payloads have been delivered to the
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Central China. CAMSAT CEO Alan
Kung, BA1DU, said they're expected to launch between September 7 and
9. All are part of the CAS-3 series of satellites. Four of the
microsatellites and two of the CubeSats included in the launch have
been designated as the XW-2 (Hope-2) amateur satellite system (XW-2A
through XW-2F), although Kung also refers to them using their initial
CAS-3A through CAS-3F nomenclature. The other three satellites -- a
CubeSat, a nanosatellite, and a picosatellite -- carry the
designations CAS-3G through CAS-3I, respectively. CAMSAT announced
earlier this year that the launch date would be postponed from
mid-July until early September.
A depiction of the XW-2A (CAS-3A) satellite. [Image courtesy of
CAMSAT]
"Each satellite of the CAS-3 series will work independently, and they
are made by different organizations," Kung told ARRL.
The XW-2 series satellites are equipped with substantially identical
Amateur Radio payloads -- a U/V mode linear transponder, a CW
telemetry beacon and an AX.25 19.2k/9.6k baud GMSK telemetry downlink,
CAMSAT said in May. Each Amateur Radio complement has the same
technical characteristics, but will operate on different 70 centimeter
uplink and 2 meter downlink frequencies. XW-2A through XW-2F have
identical quarter-wavelength deployable monopole antennas made of
steel tape.
CAMSAT worked with three entities to complete the other three
satellites: CAS-3G (DCBB), a 2U CubeSat being built by Shenzhen HIT
Satellite Ltd of China for educational purposes; CAS-3H (LilacSat-2),
a Harbin Institute of Technology of China microsatellite for science
experiments and Amateur Radio, and CAS-3I (NDT-Phone Sat), a National
University of Defense Technology of China picosatellite for carrying
out technical experiments. CAS-3G and CAS-3I will downlink digital
telemetry on amateur frequencies, while CAS-3H will carry a U/V FM
transponder and APRS.
Kung said a Long March-6 rocket will carry the XW-2 and CAS-3
satellites into orbit along with 11 other satellites. Read more. --
Thanks to CAMSAT CEO Alan Kung, BA1DU, and IARU
Additional ARRL Books Now Available as E-Books
ARRL has announced plans to significantly increase the availability of
its publications as e-books. At the same time, the League introduced
six more ARRL titles in the popular Amazon Kindle format.
"I'm very pleased that members and readers will find more and more
ARRL books available in the reading format they prefer," ARRL
Marketing Manager Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R, said. "This effort
underscores our strategy of delivering quality content on the media
platforms preferred by members -- including print and digital
publishing."
Inderbitzen said Kindle devices frequently rank highest in preference
among e-book readers, and Kindle apps make it possible to use the
format on most mobile devices and tablets, including Android and Apple
iOS devices.
"ARRL isn't new to digital publishing," ARRL Publication Manager Steve
Ford, WB8IMY, pointed out. Ford oversees staff and contributors
responsible for content creation, editing, and publishing. "In 2012,
QST was introduced to all members in a digital format. Other books,
such as technical proceedings assembled by ARRL for annual
conferences, are published digitally and made available to readers on
a print-on-demand basis.
The newest titles available in Kindle format include Understanding
Basic Electronics, ARRL's Small Antennas for Small Spaces, Get on the
Air with HF Digital, Your First Amateur Radio HF Station, Radios to
Go!, and the ARES Field Resource Manual. Earlier this year, ARRL
released two titles in Kindle format: Propagation and Radio Science by
Eric P. Nichols, KL7AJ, and Oscilloscopes for Radio Amateurs by Paul
Danzer, N1II.
All of these publications are also available in a print format,
directly from ARRL and ARRL publication dealers.
All ARRL license manuals are available in Kindle format. The ARRL Ham
Radio License Manual has been identified by Amazon as a #1 Best
Seller.
"ARRL's place in digital publishing also means introducing Amateur
Radio to more of the world," Inderbitzen said. "When someone searches
for or buys an e-book about radio electronics, microcontrollers, or
some other related interest, we want their search to lead them to
Amateur Radio and ARRL."
Ford added, "As the largest publisher of Amateur Radio books, we've
made great strides in developing a digital publishing competency that
will ensure ARRL is an enduring source of content on the art and
science of radio -- and in the format you prefer; quickly, easily, and
no matter where you are."
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JH5GHM Donates Foot Switches to W1AW
Katsuhiro "Don" Kondou, JH5GHM, has donated eight of his custom-made
foot switches to Maxim Memorial Station W1AW. ARRL Field Services and
Radiosport Manager Dave Patton, NN1N, said Kondou visited ARRL
Headquarters and operated from W1AW during the ARRL Centennial
National Convention in 2014 and felt that W1AW needed better foot
switches. Now, he's made that happen.
Don Kondou, JH5GHM, at W1AW in 2014.
"We really appreciate Don's generosity!" said Patton. "The foot
switches are really a nice addition to the station, as they are solid,
comfortable, and don't slide around on the floor." Patton said that in
a multi-station environment, such as W1AW's, using a foot switch
instead of VOX while operating phone allows each operator to talk more
normally and quietly, not bothering adjacent operators. VOX, he said,
often tends to make ops shout.
In his article, "A Prototype Foot Switch for the Future," in the
July/August issue of NCJ, Kondou said many radio amateurs do not
appreciate the importance of a foot switch in a contest environment.
While many types of foot switches are available, he said only a few
are specific to Amateur Radio use.
One of the JH5GHM foot switches at W1AW. [Joe Carcia, NJ1Q, photo]
"I became frustrated with their flexibility," Kondou said of the
commercially available units. "Finally I decided to design a more
comfortable foot switch." His eventual design represented the
culmination of considerable experimentation. Kondou has said operators
won't appreciate the comfort of his foot switch design until they try
out his low-fatigue design.
An enthusiastic contester, Kondou participated in World Radiosport
Team Championship 2014 in New England and is a member of the CQ World
Wide DX Contest Committee. Licensed in 1978, he is a graduate of the
Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Researchers Decode CASSIOPE Satellite Field Day Fly-Over Experiment
Results
The University of Calgary's "Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe (ePOP) Radio
Receiver Instrument (RRI)" on the CASSIOPE satellite was able to
detect several ARRL Field Day stations on June 28. CASSIOPE (CAScade
Smallsat and IOnospheric Polar Explorer) is a Canadian-designed and
built satellite. The RRI listened on 80 and 40 meter segments.
Virginia Tech graduate researcher Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF, said that
during the first 25 seconds of 7 MHz reception, he and his team
aurally decoded and identified 23 stations, most in Illinois,
Wisconsin, and Indiana, before the signals "abruptly disappeared." He
said very few signals were detected on 80 meters.
"This experiment was designed to simply test the feasibility of
conducting HF Amateur Radio-satellite ionosphere and propagation
studies," Frissell told ARRL. "These results show that this is
feasible, and that it is possible to detect interesting geophysical
features." The others involved in the analyzing the results were
Gareth Perry of the University of Calgary; Ethan Miller, K8GU, of
Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Lab; Magdalina Moses,
KM4EGE, of Virginia Tech, and CW Skimmer developer Alex Shovkoplyas,
VE3NEA.
The sudden disappearance of signals on 40 meters, Frissell said,
suggests that CASSIOPE was passing over regions of differing
ionospheric electron densities. "The plasma frequency of the
ionosphere is directly proportional to the square root of the electron
density," he explained. "Signals transmitted from Earth and vertically
incident on the ionosphere will be reflected back to Earth at the
altitude where the plasma frequency matches the transmitted frequency.
A satellite flying above this layer will be shielded from the signals
below." The ePOP experiment on CASSIOPE is a suite of eight
instruments that study the outflow of plasma from the ionosphere into
near-Earth geospace.
Frissell has documented the group's results in a presentation, "ePOP
RRI Observations of Amateur Radio Transmissions."
Frissell said that at the time of the satellite's pass, the peak
plasma frequency was 6.950 MHz at roughly 290 km altitude, as measured
by the Millstone Hill ionosonde in Westford, Massachusetts. "If the
conditions were similar to what CASSIOPE was experiencing at its
location, it would be able to hear the 7 MHz signal but not the 3.5
MHz signals," he said. "This is, in fact, what we observe."
He said the 7 MHz signals abruptly disappeared once CASSIOPE reached
42° N latitude. "We believe it is likely the satellite was above an
ionospheric layer that had a plasma frequency greater than 7 MHz,
thereby shielding the satellite from the ground transmissions," he
said. He and his fellow researchers plan to follow up with more
thorough modeling and analysis.
The orbit of CASSIOPE (dotted line) during the ARRL Field Day pass.
The researchers were able to record signals appearing within a 30 kHz
band segment on 40 meters (7010-7040 kHz) in a special .wav file that
requires CW Skimmer multi-channel CW decoding and analysis software to
decipher and identify individual stations. Frissell said CW Skimmer
detected more than 23 signals, but after the results were checked
manually, it was determined that the software was unable to accurately
identify some individual stations. "CW Skimmer automated detection had
difficulty in this case because of the flutter present in the signals
observed by the satellite." Frissell said. (An audio file of Field Day
participant WR9Y, extracted via CW Skimmer, provides an idea of what
the RRI actually was hearing.)
"In conclusion," Frissell said, "we believe this was a successful
experiment that provides an interesting view of a possible plasma
density transition region, as well as a basis for designing future HF
Amateur Radio-satellite ionospheric experiments." Read more.
In Brief...
Nevada ARES Volunteers Activate During 911 Outage: Amateur Radio
Emergency Services (ARES) members in Nye County, Nevada, were pressed
into service on July 27 when the county lost 911 capabilities on the
AT&T system. Southern Nye County Emergency Coordinator Gerald Fuge,
KC6ILH, reported that nine ARES members deployed to four locations to
act as 911 relay points for the Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
ARES personnel staffed locations in Pahrump, Amargosa, and Beatty,
Nevada. Another radio amateur not affiliated with ARES provided
communication with two local FM broadcast stations and delivered EOC
information releases from the ARES network to those stations. Nye
County encompasses more than 18,100 square miles and is the third
largest county in the US. ARES personnel were deployed for about 3
hours. Southern Nye County ARES members have responded to similar 911
outages in the past. -- Thanks to John Bigley, N7UR
Updated Canadian Band Plan Released: The Radio Amateurs of Canada Band
Planning Committee has released an updated band plan for all LF and HF
(0-30 MHz) Amateur Radio allocations. This includes the new LF bands
at 2200 and 600 meters, the 60 meter channels, and changes to reflect
current best practice on other bands. The updated band plan represents
the RAC Band Planning Committee's year-long review of all LF and HF
allocations. RAC said the updated band plan is intended as a quick
reference guide, summarizing all bands on a single page. -- Thanks to
George Gorsline, VE3YV, RAC International Affairs Officer
AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium 2015 Video Available:
High-definition videos of presentations at the 2015 AMSAT-UK
International Space Colloquium now are available on YouTube. The
colloquium, July 25-26, attracted attendees from Europe, the US, the
Middle East, and Japan. Thanks to the cooperation between the British
Amateur Television Club (BATC) and AMSAT-UK, more than 5 hours of
presentations were recorded. Videos from the 2014 and 2013 Colloquia
are also available. -- Thanks to AMSAT-UK
HRO Corporate Offices Relocate: Effective August 3, Ham Radio Outlet
(HRO) has moved its corporate offices and has new telephone numbers.
The new address is HRO Inc, 110 Tampico, Suite 110, Walnut Creek, CA
94598. Telephone (925) 933-1771; Fax (925) 933-1774.
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The K7RA Solar Update
Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, reports: Compared with the 7 previous days,
solar activity increased somewhat over the July 30-August 5 reporting
period.
Average daily sunspot numbers rose from 47.9 to 70.3, while average
daily solar flux was up from 96.4 to 104.5. The average daily
mid-latitude and planetary A index remained about the same; both were
around 10.
At 2348 UTC on August 5, Australia's Space Weather Services issued a
geomagnetic disturbance warning. A high-speed stream of solar wind
from a coronal hole is expected to cause unsettled to active
conditions with possibility of magnetic storms over high-latitudes on
August 7, before settling down to stable conditions by late on August
8.
Earth is entering the debris field from comet Swift-Tuttle, and the
resulting Perseid meteor shower should peak August 12-13. This offers
the possibility of VHF meteor-scatter communication on 6 and 2 meters,
and possible enhancement of the ionosphere for the upper HF bands as
well.
In Friday's bulletin we will update the 3-month moving average of
daily sunspot numbers. Send me your reports and observations.
Just Ahead in Radiosport
August 7 -- NCCC RTTY Sprint
August 7 -- NCCC Sprint Ladder (CW)
August 8-9 -- WAE DX Contest (CW)
August 8-9 -- SKCC Weekend Sprintathon (CW)
August 8-9 -- Maryland-DC QSO Party (CW, SSB, digital)
August 8-9 -- 50 MHz Fall Sprint
August 12 -- NAQCC CW Sprint
August 12 -- RSGB 80 Meter Club Sprint (CW)
August 12-13 -- CWops Mini-CWT Test
August 12-14 -- MMMonVHF Meteorscatter Sprint
See the ARRL Contest Calendar for more information.
Upcoming ARRL Section, State, and Division Conventions and Events
August 7-8 -- South Texas Section Convention, Austin, Texas
August 7-9 -- New Mexico State Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico
August 7-9 -- Pacific Northwest DX Convention, Everett, Washington
August 15-16 -- Alabama State Convention, Huntsville, Alabama
August 16 -- Kansas State Convention, Salina, Kansas
August 21-23 -- New England Division Convention, Boxborough,
Massachusetts
August 22 -- West Virginia State Convention, Weston, West Virginia
August 30 -- Western Pennsylvania Section Convention, New Kensington,
Pennsylvania
September 5-6 -- Roanoke Division Convention, Shelby, North Carolina
September 11-12 -- W9DXCC Convention, Schaumburg, Illinois
September 11-13 -- Southwestern Division Convention, Torrance,
California
September 12 -- Virginia Section Convention, Virginia Beach, Virginia
September 19 -- San Joaquin Valley Section Convention, Fresno,
California
September 25-26 -- W4DXCC/SEDCO Convention, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
September 26 -- Iowa State Convention, Sergeant Bluff, Iowa
September 26 -- North Dakota State Convention, West Fargo, North
Dakota
September 26 -- Washington State Convention, Spokane Valley,
Washington
October 2-4 -- Mid-Atlantic States VHF Conference, Bensalem,
Pennsylvania
October 3 -- Delaware State Convention, Georgetown, Delaware
October 9-10 -- Florida State Convention, Melbourne, Florida
October 10-11 -- Pacific Northwest VHF Conference, Issaquah,
Washington
Find conventions and hamfests in your area.
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