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The ARRL Letter

January 18, 2018
Editor: Rick Lindquist, WW1ME

 *  ARRL CEO Tom Gallagher, NY2RF, to Retire
 *  ARRL Board of Directors to Meet
 *  The Doctor Will See You Now!
 *  A Message to Members from ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR
 *  Club Group Will Operate W1AW for Winter Field Day
 *  Fox-1D Amateur Radio CubeSat Launches Successfully, Now Designated as
    AO-92
 *  Florida Ham Radio Club Aids Homeless During Cold Snap
 *  Department of Defense Interoperability Communication Exercise Deemed a
    Success
 *  Registration Now Open for HamSCI Workshop
 *  Past ARRL Great Lakes Division Director Jim Weaver, K8JE, SK
 *  In Brief...
 *  The K7RA Solar Update
 *  Just Ahead in Radiosport
 *  Upcoming ARRL Section, State, and Division Conventions

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ARRL CEO Tom Gallagher, NY2RF, to Retire

ARRL's chief executive officer for the past 2 years, Tom Gallagher, NY2RF,
announced his retirement as CEO, as the ARRL Board of Directors prepares to
meet January 19-20. He will step down on March 2. Gallagher, who had earlier
advised ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR, of his intention to resign,
expressed his gratitude to President Roderick and the ARRL Board for giving him
the opportunity to help guide the organization.

"It has been my great privilege to serve in this capacity for 2 years, and I am
deeply grateful to the Board and President Rick Roderick, K5UR, for their
support and encouragement," Gallagher said.

President Roderick expressed appreciation for Gallagher's contributions to
ARRL. "ARRL is in a transition to a new generation for Amateur Radio. Change
doesn't come easy," Roderick said. "Tom helped us in taking that step forward,
and for that we are very grateful for his service to the League and to Amateur
Radio," he said.

Gallagher, 69, cited recent changes included in the new federal tax law that
made it unattractive for him to continue working in Connecticut, where ARRL is
headquartered.

Among Gallagher's chief accomplishments during his tenure as CEO were creating
an enhanced level of professionalism and efficiency in the organization that
represents more than 150,000 US Amateur Radio operators. Gallagher also oversaw
a significant turnaround in the organization's financial performance.

Licensed in Pennsylvania in 1966 as WA3GRF (later N4GRF in North Carolina),
Gallagher is a member of the West Palm Beach Amateur Radio Group. He has
described himself as "an incurable HF DXer and inveterate tinkerer" and credits
his first visit to the Franklin Institute's Amateur Radio station W3TKQ in 1963
for inspiring his interest in ham radio. Amateur Radio led to an early career
in broadcasting.

Gallagher joined ARRL following 3 decades as an international investment banker
and financial services executive, succeeding long-time CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ.

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ARRL Board of Directors to Meet

The ARRL Board of Directors will hold its 2018 Annual Meeting January 19-20 in
Windsor, Connecticut. The first order of business will be the election of
officers. The Board will elect candidates to the volunteer posts of ARRL
President, First and Second Vice President, and International Affairs Vice
President, as well as to the offices of Secretary, Treasurer, Chief Executive
Officer, and Chief Financial Officer. CEO Tom Gallagher, NY2RF, has announced
that he will retire on March 2. The Board will evaluate and determine the next
steps to take in a search for his replacement when it meets this week.

The Board also will receive and/or hear -- and perhaps later consider
recommendations from -- a wide range of reports from officers, the General
Counsel, and committees and coordinators, including the Entry Level License
Committee, the Official Observers Program Study Committee, and the Legislative
Advocacy Committee. The Board also will hear and consider proposals to amend
the ARRL Articles of Association and Bylaws. It will consider the application
of SKNAARS to become the IARU member society for St. Kitts and Nevis.

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The Doctor Will See You Now!

"Antenna Wire" is the topic of the latest (January 18) episode of the "ARRL The
Doctor is In" podcast. Listen...and learn!

Sponsored by DX Engineering, "ARRL The Doctor is In" is an informative
discussion of all things technical. Listen on your computer, tablet, or
smartphone -- whenever and wherever you like!

Every 2 weeks, your host, QST Editor-in-Chief Steve Ford, WB8IMY, and the
Doctor himself, Joel Hallas, W1ZR, will discuss a broad range of technical
topics. You can also e-mail your questions to doctor@arrl.org, and the Doctor
may answer them in a future podcast.

Enjoy "ARRL The Doctor is In" on Apple iTunes, or by using your iPhone or iPad
podcast app (just search for "ARRL The Doctor is In"). You can also listen
online at Blubrry, or at Stitcher (free registration required, or browse the
site as a guest) and through the free Stitcher app for iOS, Kindle, or Android
devices. If you've never listened to a podcast before, download our beginner's
guide.

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A Message to Members from ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR

In the last few weeks, the ARRL's Board of Directors has been the subject of an
organized misinformation campaign. It is being orchestrated by a group of hams,
some of whom are well-intentioned but have been misled. This effort, which
consists of a series of mis-characterizations, initially dealt with (1) the
ARRL Board's censure of an ARRL Director, and (2) some proposed revisions to
ARRL's Articles of Association and Bylaws that are likely to be considered at
the upcoming ARRL Board meeting and which were circulated by a member of the
Board. None of the proposed Article and Bylaw changes has yet been addressed by
the Board of Directors. More recently, other equally erroneous and false
statements have been made with respect to completely unrelated issues, in an
effort to draw into question ARRL's decision-making processes. The principal
suggestion is that ARRL operates under some "cloak of secrecy." The criticism
is unfair and undeserved.

ARRL's representative system of governance, which has worked exceptionally well
in the advocacy and promotion of Amateur Radio and the interests of ARRL
members for more than 100 years, is unchanged. And the legislative and other
advocacy positions currently being pursued are critical to the long-term
survivability of the Amateur Radio Service.

The ARRL Board does seek thoughtful, informed input on policy issues concerning
Amateur Radio from its roughly 150,000 members. ARRL's governance structure
provides that regionally elected, volunteer Directors will represent the
interests of the members in their respective Divisions, working collectively
and collegially within our Board to make policy and to advocate their
constituents' interests. ARRL's Board members hold cabinet meetings and forums
at hamfests and conventions, and they staff ARRL booths at hamfests and
conventions in order to find out what interests and concerns you have as ARRL
members. They take this feedback from you, and they come to Board meetings
twice a year to make policy for the organization. They work together
collegially to develop the best policy decisions. This structure presumes that
the Board's collective wisdom is far greater than that of any one Board member,
and each Board member is obligated by our Articles and Bylaws to come to
meetings with a good idea of what the members need and what is best for Amateur
Radio as a whole.

As is the case with most large, national nonprofit associations, ARRL Board
meetings are not open to the public. It has always been that way, as a matter
of necessity. That is because, at all such meetings, confidential issues such
as spectrum protection, employee compensation, financial information, and FCC
submissions are candidly discussed, and the members' interests at those
meetings are advocated by the Directors on a representative basis.

Unfortunately, it was necessary for the Board to take the highly unusual action
of publicly censuring one of its members recently. The Board heard the
allegations made by an ARRL member of what transpired at an Amateur Radio
event; it heard reports from other amateurs who were there, and it heard all
the information that the Director involved chose to present. Everyone had a
chance to speak and to evaluate the presentations. The Board, in an 11 to 3
vote with one abstention, took action to protect the organization's integrity
based on the information presented. This process and procedure are what
nonprofit associations have to be prepared to employ, and do employ, to
maintain order within their organizations and to ensure that the interests of
the affected Director are protected as well. This is not a procedure that any
nonprofit organization would conduct publicly.

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ARRL Directors are volunteers. They are smart, dedicated radio amateurs who
each devote thousands of hours per year of their own time to representing you
as best they can. -- ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR

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The ARRL Policy on Board Governance and Conduct of Members of the Board of
Directors and Vice Directors has been drawn into question, probably as the
result of the fact that the Board's censure decision was based upon a violation
of that policy by the Director involved. The Policy is intended to protect the
democratic decision-making processes by which ARRL has operated effectively for
so long, and to set forth principles to guide an organization's decision making
and the behavior of individual board members when acting on behalf of ARRL.
When it was adopted by the Board a year ago, it was posted for ARRL members to
read. The policy calls for honesty, integrity, transparency, confidentiality,
and equity. The purpose of adopting such a statement formally is to provide
employees, volunteers, and board members with guidelines for making ethical
choices and to ensure that there is accountability for those choices.

When board members of a nonprofit adopt a code of ethics, they are expressing
their commitment to ethical behavior. It is intended to protect the Board's
deliberations and to protect the staff from inappropriate actions by Board
members. It seeks to preclude precisely the type of selective disclosures and
unilateral and subjective characterizations of proposed Board actions that have
happened recently. There is nothing at all insidious about the policy, which is
subject to regular review and modification, as are all other ARRL
organizational documents.

As to the criticism of the proposed Articles and Bylaws changes, the Board has
not yet considered them. It may or may not adopt some or all of the changes
recommended by its Executive Committee or by an individual Director. Any
responsible Board of Directors regularly reviews, amends and updates its
Articles and Bylaws. And ARRL member input is welcome on all such subjects.
Indeed, the recommended Article and Bylaws changes were not considered to be
Board confidential. The problem, however, is that it is not fair to members, or
to the representative Directors who have yet to evaluate them collectively, to
have the proposals mischaracterized or misrepresented.

ARRL Directors are volunteers. They are smart, dedicated radio amateurs who
each devote thousands of hours per year of their own time to representing you
as best they can.

To those who try to suggest that the Board has abandoned its obligation to the
members in favor of the organization -- you draw a distinction that doesn't
exist. The Board absolutely understands that the members are the organization.
The members of ARRL are always best served by an informed Board that works
together to make policy that is in the best interests of the organization. The
divisive tactics that are being used now, commenced through disinformation and
a lack of candor, are harmful not only to the organization, but to Amateur
Radio operators everywhere, the good work of the ARRL staff, and the Service
that we love so much.

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Club Group Will Operate W1AW for Winter Field Day

Maxim Memorial Station W1AW will host a group that will take part in Winter
Field Day later this month. Sponsored by the Winter Field Day Association
(WFDA), Winter Field Day will take place over the January 27-28 weekend, and it
can be an opportune time to prep for ARRL Field Day in June.

"Assuming the weather holds out, a group of hams will be here the last weekend
of January to operate W1AW in the Winter Field Day," W1AW Station Manager Joe
Carcia, NJ1Q, said this week. Headed by Frank Gitto, KA5VVI, the group will
consist of members of the Warren County Amateur Radio Club (W2WCR) in New York.
Gitto said the club is hoping to have a dozen members at W1AW, operating in
shifts of six. Carcia said the Warren County ARC operators will avoid the harsh
elements and operate from indoors at W1AW, in the "home" station category.

For the hardier within the Amateur Radio ranks, Winter Field Day is an excuse
to get out of the house and enjoy the great outdoors, and -- let's face it --
it's not cold and snowy everywhere during the winter. Gitto said that some
Warren County ARC members will be operating WFD from Indian Lake, New York,
using special event call sign W2C.

The event, which got its start in 2007, is not restricted to North America.
There are three entry categories -- indoor, outdoor, and home. The rules are
similar to those for ARRL Field Day.

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Fox-1D Amateur Radio CubeSat Launches Successfully, Now Designated as AO-92

Right on schedule on January 12, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) launched, taking AMSAT-NA's Fox-1D
CubeSat and 30 other satellites on board toward a sun-synchronous orbit. By 27
minutes into the flight, confirmation came that all nanosatellites had been
deployed. Fox-1D was in orbit!

"At about 0517 UTC, the satellite came to life, and its antennas deployed over
the North Pole," AMSAT reported. "The AMSAT Engineering team and Amateur Radio
operators worldwide were watching various WebSDRs for signs of life. Around
0525 UTC, the characteristic 'Fox tail' of the Fox-1 FM transmitter was seen on
multiple WebSDRs. Fox-1D was alive!"

In addition to a Fox-1 U/V FM transponder, Fox-1D will carry several university
experiments, including a MEMS gyro from Pennsylvania State University-Erie, a
camera from Virginia Tech, and the University of Iowa's High Energy Radiation
CubeSat Instrument (HERCI) radiation mapping experiment. This week the Virginia
Tech experimental camera payload returned some very clear photos of our planet
as seen from low-Earth orbit.

The PSLV launcher also carried the French PicSat, which includes a V/U FM
transponder.

The satellite will not be available for general use until the on-orbit
checkouts are complete.

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Florida Ham Radio Club Aids Homeless During Cold Snap

Uncharacteristically cold weather in central Florida in early January prompted
members of the North Brevard Amateur Radio Club (K4NBR) to assist the area's
homeless population. The New Year began with a bitter cold front descending
upon central Florida, bringing below-freezing temperatures, especially
concerning for those lacking regular shelter from the elements. NBARC members
Ricky Deluco, K4JTT; Robert Ortiz, KJ4VEH; William Klosowski, K4SVT, and
Michael Ellixson, KE4MWZ, set out in their own vehicles, searching the city of
Titusville for homeless residents. For the next two evenings, and using Amateur
Radio as communications, the group worked in the cold, wet weather for more
than 12 hours, logging some 120 miles on the roads around Titusville.

The Disabled American Veteran Center in Titusville had opened its doors as a
cold weather shelter and offered a warm place to sleep and eat. The ham radio
group alerted local law enforcement, so they were aware of the effort and in
the hope that on-duty officers might also reach out. The group was able to
locate five homeless individuals on its first evening tour of the town and
provide them with transportation out of the cold. Local police also contacted
the team to help and to provide transportation for other homeless individuals
located by on-duty officers.

One additional homeless person located late on the first night had a need for
immediate medical attention and was transported to a local hospital. -- Thanks
to Ricky Deluco, K4JTT

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Department of Defense Interoperability Communication Exercise Deemed a Success

A November 2017 Department of Defense (DoD)-sponsored communications
interoperability exercise involving Amateur Radio was a success, according to
information received from US Army Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS)
Program Manager Paul English, WD8DBY. The November 4-6 drill, which focused on
interoperability between DOD elements including MARS, other federal agencies,
and the Amateur Radio community, simulated a coronal mass ejection (CME) event.
Army and Air Force MARS organizations worked in conjunction with the Amateur
Radio community, primarily on the 60-meter interoperability channels as well as
on HF NVIS frequencies and local VHF and UHF, non-internet linked Amateur Radio
repeaters.

The Amateur Radio portion of the exercise kicked off with a high-power
information broadcast on 60-meter channel 1 (5,330.5 kHz) from a military
station on the east coast and the Fort Huachuca HF
gateway station in Arizona. The high-power broadcast provided basic exercise
information and requested that amateur stations make contact with MARS stations
on 60 meters and provide county-by-county status reports for the 3,143 US
counties and county equivalents, in order to gain situational awareness and to
determine the extent of impact of the scenario. Radio amateurs also were given
the opportunity to submit a reception report and receive a QSL card.

"Leaders from the supported DOD headquarters as well as the chiefs of both the
Army and Air Force MARS programs appreciated the nearly 2,000 Amateur Radio
stations that trained during this exercise," English said. Read more. -- Thanks
to US Army MARS Program Manager Paul English, WD8DBY, and The ARRL ARES
E-Letter

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Registration Now Open for HamSCI Workshop

Registration now is open for a 2-day HamSCI -- the Amateur Radio citizen
science initiative -- workshop February 23-24 at New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT) in Newark. The 2018 HamSCI Workshop will be held in the NJIT
Campus Center Ballroom. Complimentary parking is available.

"The 2018 HamSCI workshop will focus on results of the 2017 Great American
Eclipse and the development of a personal space weather station," said
Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF, Assistant Research Professor at NJIT's Center for
Solar-Terrestrial Research. "We are especially looking for speakers with
presentations showing analysis of 2017 Great American Eclipse ionospheric
observations, ideas and proposals for the design and implementation of a
personal space weather station. We will also accept other presentations related
to Amateur Radio and science." Frissell expects that presentations will run
between 20 and 30 minutes in length. Contact Frissell if you would like to
present and provide an abstract by February 15. Presentations should be on any
topic about how the ionosphere and/or radio propagation was affected by the
eclipse.

Frissell said all hams and scientists interested in ham radio science are
welcome. "The aim of this workshop is to foster collaborations between the ham
radio and the space science and space weather research communities through
presentations, discussions, and demonstrations. This year's meeting will focus
on solar eclipse analysis, ham radio data sources and databases, and the
development of a 'personal space weather station.'"


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Past ARRL Great Lakes Division Director Jim Weaver, K8JE, SK

Past ARRL Great Lakes Division Director Jim Weaver, K8JE (ex-WA8COA), of Mason,
Ohio, died on January 14. An ARRL Life Member, he was 82. Weaver served as ARRL
Great Lakes Division Director for 11 years, from 2003 until 2014, and he was a
regular presence at Hamvention(R) and ARRL EXPO and moderated the ARRL Forum.

During his time on The ARRL Board of Directors, Weaver served on the
Administration and Finance, Programs and Services, and CEO Candidate Screening
committees. Early in his years on the Board, Weaver was one of the initial
members of the Ad Hoc Committee on Grassroots Lobbying.

Within the Ohio Section, Weaver served as an Official Observer from 1997, and
as a Public Information Officer from 1996. For about 10 years in the 1970s and
1980s, he wrote a column on Amateur Radio and the public for the Cincinnati
Enquirer, "Ham Call." Until recently, he had served as an Official Emergency
Station and an Official Relay station.

Weaver was active in disaster communication and worked closely with the Red
Cross in Cincinnati. At the Great Lakes Division Convention last October,
Weaver was presented with the George S. Wilson III, W4OYI, Lifetime Achievement
Award.

Arrangements are pending. -- Thanks to Tom Delaney, W8WTD, and Steve Ewald,
WV1X

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In Brief...

The theme for Hamvention(R) 2018 is "Amateur Radio...Serving the Community."
Ron Cramer, KD8ENJ, Hamvention General Chairman, said the theme acknowledges
the role that ham radio operators play in their communities, especially in
times of emergencies. "During recent disasters, hurricanes in Florida, Texas,
and Puerto Rico and wildfires in the west, Amateur Radio operators were once
again called upon to provide emergency communication assistance when regular
services failed or were overtaxed," Cramer said. Hamvention is planning to have
forums on emergency communication and displays of Amateur Radio emergency
communication vehicles. Cramer thanked the many hams who actively volunteer
with community groups and thanked the public and organizations for their
support of Amateur Radio. Hamvention 2018 will take place May 18-20 for the
second year at the Greene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center in Xenia, Ohio.


The DP0GVN WSPR beacon now is in operation from Antarctica's Neumayer III
Research Station of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.
The installation is part of a scientific project of the Technical University of
Munich in cooperation with the University of Bremen and the German Amateur
Radio Club (DARC). "The beacon is still under test and will be shut down
occasionally for more configuration and optimization of antennas and software,
before it can be mounted at the final installation site in a few weeks," said
Rainer Englert, DF2NU. The technology consists of a multiband WSPR receiver
that can simultaneously monitor up to eight bands from 160 to 6 meters and feed
several hundred reports per hour to WSPRnet. The 5-W multiband transmitter also
had been commissioned and is working into a vertical antenna. Englert said that
DP0GVN already has received "several thousand beacons spots." DP0GVN also will
be the call sign for Matthias Maasch, DH5CW, starting in February, at Neumayer
III Research Station for 1 year, and he plans to be active on HF. QSL DP0GVN
via DL5EBE. -- Thanks to Tom Kamp, DF5JL, IARU Region 1 HF Committee Chairman
via Rainer Englert, DF2NU, and The Daily DX


The NCVEC Question Pool Committee has announced some errors in the 2018-2022
FCC Element 2 (Technician class) Question Pool released on January 8. These
changes have been made in the download files as of January 12: T1F11 --
Distractor A; change "They" to "The"; T4A01 -- Change to correct answer;
correct answer is D; T5B13 -- Distractor A; change "GHZ" to "GHz"; T6A07 --
Modified question. "What electrical component is usually constructed as a coil
of wire?" T8C08 -- Distractor A; change "VOIP" to "VoIP". ARRL VEC teams are
advised to check the NCVEC website regularly for updates to the Question Pool,
which may include errata and withdrawn questions. The new Element 2 Question
Pool goes into effect on July 1, 2018.


The Dugger Amateur Radio Club in Dugger, Indiana, has announced that the date
of its hamfest has been moved to February 17 at the City Park Community
Building, 840 Hicum Street, in Dugger. Talk-in will be on 147.775 MHz (136.5
Hz). Contact Jonathan Olvey, KD9AMN, for more information.

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The K7RA Solar Update

Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, reports: January 11-17 was a quiet week in space
weather, with zero sunspots over the weekend and geomagnetic indicators rising
only slightly. Compared to last week, average daily sunspot numbers declined
from 11.9 to 7, but average daily solar flux went from 69.9 to 70.7. That seems
counterintuitive, but these are all very low numbers anyway, and any change is
slight. Also, there are no sunspot numbers between zero and 10 due to the
arcane and somewhat confusing way they are counted; the minimum possible
sunspot number, if there is any sunspot activity, is 11.

Geomagnetic indicators were quiet, with average daily planetary A index moving
from 5.4 to 6.1, and mid-latitude A index from 4.6 to 4.9.

Predicted solar flux is 71 on January 18-24; 72 on January 25-27; 70 on January
28-February 17; 72 on February 18-23; and 70 on February 24-March 3.

Predicted planetary A index is 5 on January 18; 8, 15, 18, and 12 on January
19-22; 8 on January 23-24; 5 on January 25-27; 10 on January 28; 5 on January
29-February 3; 8 on February 4-5; 5 on February 6-8; 8, 12, and 10 on February
9-11; 5 on February 12-14; 20 on February 15-16; 18 and 12 on February 17-18; 5
on February 19-23; 10 on February 24, 5 on February 25-March 2, and 8 on March
3.

Sunspot numbers for January 11-17, 2018 were 12, 0, 0, 0, 12, 13, and 12, with
a mean of 7. The 10.7-centimeter flux was 70.8, 70.9, 70.8, 70.5, 70.2, 71.1,
and 70.9, with a mean of 70.7. Estimated planetary A indices were 2, 4, 7, 14,
9, 4, and 3, with a mean of 6.1. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 2, 3, 7,
11, 7, 3, and 1, with a mean of 4.9.

Send me your reports and observations.

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Just Ahead in Radiosport

 *  January 20-21 -- North American QSO Party SSB
 *  January 20-21 -- Hungarian DX Contest (CW, phone)
 *  January 20-21 -- Feld Hell Sprint
 *  January 20-22 -- ARRL January VHF Contest (CW, phone, digital)
 *  January 21-24 -- Classic Exchange (CW)
 *  January 22 -- Run for the Bacon QRP Contest (CW)
 *  January 24 -- SKCC Sprint (CW)
 *  January 24 -- NAQCC CW Sprint

See the ARRL Contest Calendar for more information. For in-depth reporting on
Amateur Radio contesting, subscribe to The ARRL Contest Update via your ARRL
member profile e-mail preferences.

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Upcoming ARRL Section, State, and Division Conventions

 *  January 19-20 -- North Texas Section Convention, Forest Hill, Texas
 *  January 20 -- GARS TECHFEST Convention, Lawrenceville, Georgia
 *  January 21-27 -- Quartzfest Convention, Quartzsite, Arizona
 *  January 26-27 -- Delta Division Convention, Jackson, Mississippi
 *  February 3 -- South Carolina State Convention, North Charleston, South
    Carolina
 *  February 3 -- Virginia State Convention (Frostfest), Richmond, Virginia
 *  February 9-11 -- Florida State Convention (HamCation), Orlando, Florida
 *  February 16-17 -- Southwestern Division Convention, Yuma, Arizona
 *  February 24 -- TECHCON Conference, Winter Haven, Florida
 *  February 24 -- New Mexico TechFest, Albuquerque, New Mexico
 *  February 24 -- Vermont State Convention, S. Burlington, Vermont
 *  March 2-3 -- Alabama State Convention, Irondale, Alabama
 *  March 9-10 -- Louisiana State Convention, Rayne, Louisiana
 *  March 9-10 -- North Carolina Section Convention, Concord, North Carolina
 *  March 10 -- Nebraska State Convention, Lincoln, Nebraska
 *  March 16-17 -- South Texas Section Convention, Rosenberg, Texas
 *  March 17 -- Southern Florida Section Convention, Stuart, Florida
 *  March 17 -- West Texas Section Convention, Midland, Texas
 *  March 24 -- MicroHAMS Digital Conference, Redmond, Washington
 *  March 24 -- Utah Digital Communications Conference, Sandy, Utah
 *  March 24 -- West Virginia Section Convention, Charleston, West Virginia
 *  March 30-31 -- Maine State Convention, Lewiston, Maine
 *  March 31 -- North Carolina State Convention, Raleigh, North Carolina

Find conventions and hamfests in your area.

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