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The ARRL Letter

February 1, 2018
Editor: Rick Lindquist, WW1ME

 *  ARRL Hudson Division Director Promotes Amateur Radio Parity Act Before
    Senate Committee
 *  ARRL Comments on Technological Advisory Council Spectrum Policy
    Recommendations
 *  ARRL to Offer Expanded Orlando HamCation(R) Presence February 9-11
 *  The Doctor Will See You Now!
 *  Nominations Sought for Philip J. McGan Memorial Silver Antenna Award
 *  Kristen McIntyre, K6WX, Appointed ARRL Pacific Division Vice Director
 *  Anticipated New Building Won't Be Ready for Hamvention 2018, but Flea
    Market Could Expand
 *  Work Progressing to Incorporate CQ Magazine's WAZ Award Program into
    LoTW
 *  Canadian Radio Amateur Finds Resurrected NASA Satellite
 *  In Brief...
 *  The K7RA Solar Update
 *  Just Ahead in Radiosport
 *  Upcoming ARRL Section, State, and Division Conventions

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ARRL Hudson Division Director Promotes Amateur Radio Parity Act Before Senate
Committee

ARRL Hudson Division Director Mike Lisenco, N2YBB, testified on January 25
before a session of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation regarding Amateur Radio's readiness to respond in an emergency.
The session, "This is not a Drill: An Examination of Emergency Alert Systems,"
was called in the wake of an incoming missile warning erroneously released in
Hawaii in January. Lisenco said Amateur Radio played a role not only in
responding to the warning but in disseminating word that the missile alert had
been issued by mistake.

Lisenco said the Hawaii Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES) activated
on UHF and via a VHF inter-island repeater network, and amateur stations
monitored the alert and cancellation activity, which came less than 1 day after
RACES had completed an Amateur Radio communication exercise at the State
Emergency Operations Center (EOC). In his written testimony, Lisenco recounted
that the situation after the missile warning in Hawaii was chaotic.

"The phone lines into the State EOC were soon overwhelmed and congested, and
the website was overwhelmed with public inquiries," he said. Lisenco said that
in such situations, Amateur Radio volunteers are typically present at state or
county EOCs and at the State Warning Point, the Hawaii Emergency Management
Agency. He pointed out that the cancellation of the false warning circulated on
various information outlets 13 minutes after the missile warning went out.

"That was picked up and relayed through the Amateur Radio networks," he told
the Committee in written testimony. "The cell phone alert system could not be
used for the cancellation notice until prior FEMA approval was obtained. Once
that was obtained, the cancellation alert went out to the cell phone network
after 38 minutes from the initial alert."

"Many people had received the warning first on their cell phones through the
Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system, but a cancellation on that same system
was substantially delayed," Lisenco said. "The result was that Amateur Radio
networks disseminated validated cancellation information long before the
cellular networks were able to do so."

Lisenco took the opportunity to address how private land-use regulations can
preclude Amateur Radio disaster response capabilities.

"There is no substitute for the ready availability of a residential Amateur
Radio station in daily operation from a licensee's residence," he said. "The
licensee cannot be expected to have the ability to communicate into or from a
disaster site unless he or she has a station with an effective outdoor antenna
capable of operation on multiple frequency bands at once, which is ready to be
pressed into service from the licensee's residence at a moment's notice."

Lisenco reminded the panel members that the Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2017 is
now pending before the Committee. "We are in desperate need of this
legislation, and without it, the volunteer emergency communications services
provided by Amateur Radio will be precluded. We urge the Committee in the
strongest terms to please approve and send this legislation forward without
delay," Lisenco said.

Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker, a cosponsor with Connecticut Senator Richard
Blumenthal, of the Amateur Radio Parity Act, attended the hearing. Responding
to a question from Wicker at the hearing, Lisenco pointed out that an early US
Coast Guard warning cancellation notice was relayed to Amateur Radio networks
and disseminated quickly, while the State Warning Point waited to obtain FEMA
authorization to rescind the warning via cellular phones. As a result, Amateur
Radio networks were able to disseminate validated cancellation information long
before the cellular networks could. Wicker issued a statement noting Lisenco's
testimony and posted a video clip of his exchange with Lisenco.

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ARRL Comments on Technological Advisory Council Spectrum Policy Recommendations

In comments to the FCC on a series of Technological Advisory Council (TAC)
spectrum management policy recommendations, ARRL said that while some of the
Council's recommendations are valid, it would be "highly inappropriate" to
generalize about applying them broadly in all radio services. The comments,
filed on January 31, were in response to a December 1, 2017, Public Notice in
ET Docket No. 17-340. ARRL took the opportunity to strongly urge the FCC to
reinstate a 2016 TAC noise floor study, which, ARRL asserted, was apparently
terminated before it even got started.

"Indeed, it is difficult to imagine how the Commission can now...suggest the
adoption of specific spectrum management principles, incorporating such
concepts as receiver immunity, HCTs [harm claim thresholds], and interference
temperature determinations without having...a firm grasp on ambient noise
levels in basic RF environments and geographical areas," the League told the
FCC.

ARRL reiterated its encouragement for the FCC to incorporate receiver
performance specifications into US spectrum policy on a broader basis. "ARRL
accepts...that increased spectrum user density is the inevitable result of new
wireless services," the League said. "Given that this intensification of the
use of the radio spectrum will necessitate new overlays of dissimilar radio
services...in increasingly shared spectrum, it is necessary to depart from the
traditional regulatory model that the Commission has utilized for spectrum
allocations."

That model, ARRL said, has, almost without exception, placed limits only on
transmitters, while the inability of some receivers to reject out-of-band
signals "constrains new allocations in adjacent bands." This calls for what
ARRL called "a 'holistic' approach to transmitter and receiver performance."

"Requiring better performance from receivers or RF-susceptible devices is a
valid, reasonable, and long overdue requirement," ARRL said, "but the major
goal of doing so should be to prevent instances of interference, not solely to
allow the overlay of otherwise incompatible sharing partners in deployed
spectrum to the detriment of incumbents."

ARRL argued, however, that the Amateur Service should not be subject to
receiver immunity standards, because licensees employ a wide range of
propagation, emissions, bandwidths, power levels, receivers, and antennas,
making any receiver performance standards arbitrary, and compromising the
Service's experimental nature. They are also able to differentiate between
interference from nearby spurious or out-of-band signals and that caused by
receiver deficiencies.

"Receiver immunity is not an intra-service issue in the Amateur Service," ARRL
said. "The issue...is, rather, protection from spurious and out-of-band
emissions from other services."

ARRL said that while the TAC's allocation principles include
over-generalizations, the Council is "very much on the right track" with such
concepts as receiver immunity standards for certain radio services and,
especially, for consumer electronics "and the initiation of necessary and
urgent programs, such as interference-hunting teams, to supplement the
Commission's meager enforcement resources." ARRL said it looks forward to
working with the FCC in developing an interference-tracking corps. ARRL also
supported the creation of a public database of past radio-related enforcement
activities. What little FCC enforcement is necessary in the Amateur Service
must be timely and visible, ARRL said.

But, ARRL returned to its assertion that a knowledge database regarding ambient
noise levels in certain environments must be in place before adopting any
next-generation spectrum management techniques.

"No system of spectrum management incorporating [harm claim thresholds] and
receiver immunity levels can be accurately implemented" without the noise study
data, ARRL said.

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ARRL to Offer Expanded Orlando HamCation(R) Presence February 9-11

ARRL will be represented in force and with an expanded presence at Orlando
HamCation on February 9-11. The event, which is also the 2018 ARRL Florida
State Convention, takes place at the Central Florida Fairgrounds and Expo Park.
Team ARRL will include Headquarters staff and volunteers. ARRL concessions at
HamCation will support membership, publication sales (ARRL store), the ARRL
Southeastern Division, the ARRL Collegiate Amateur Radio Initiative, and QSL
card checking for DXCC and other ARRL Awards. The League will offer special
incentives for visitors who join or renew ARRL membership at the booth.

Among the new books HamCation attendees can purchase are the 2018 ARRL
Handbook, ARRL's Hands-On Radio Experiments Volume 3, The ARRL Repeater
Directory(R) 2018 edition, ARRL's Best of The Doctor is In, and such
bestsellers as Grounding and Bonding for the Radio Amateur, by Ward Silver,
N0AX.

Expected to be on hand are ARRL Puerto Rico Section Manager Oscar Resto, KP4RF,
and US Virgin Islands Section Manager Fred Kleber, K9VV. At HamCation, Resto
and Kleber will accept the 2018 International Humanitarian Award on behalf of
radio amateurs in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, who aided in relief
and recovery after a punishing Atlantic hurricane season.

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ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR, will head the ARRL team at HamCation.

An ARRL Membership Forum, moderated by ARRL Southeastern Division Director Greg
Sarratt, W4OZK, will take place on Saturday, while Andrew Milluzzi, KK4LWR,
will lead the Collegiate Amateur Radio forum, discussing topics related to ham
radio clubs at colleges and universities. Topics will include activities,
recruitment, connecting with alumni, and social media.

"Bring your school colors to hang in the ARRL exhibit area," Milluzzi said.
"We'll display your college pennant, flag, or banner to show off the
representation of college and university radio clubs."

ARRL Volunteer Examiners will administer license examinations given on Friday
and Saturday. Advance registration is required. Contact Val Jacyno, AK4MM.

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The Doctor Will See You Now!

"Automatic Gain Control" is the topic of the latest (February 1) 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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Nominations Sought for Philip J. McGan Memorial Silver Antenna Award

Nominations are open for ARRL's annual Philip J. McGan Memorial Silver Antenna
Award, which recognizes and honors the efforts of individuals who create
greater awareness and understanding of the services and benefits that Amateur
Radio provides to the general public. The deadline to submit a nomination is
May 19, 2018.

Every day, Public Information Coordinators, Public Information Officers, and
other public relations volunteers strive to keep Amateur Radio visible in their
communities by publicizing and promoting special events to the media, by
maintaining good relations with local news outlets, creating content for social
media, as well as many other valuable activities. These efforts benefit us all.

The award is named for journalist Philip J. McGan, WA2MBQ (SK), the first
chairman of ARRL's Public Relations Committee, who helped reinvigorate the
League's commitment to public relations. Unfortunately, McGan never got to see
how well his efforts paid off. To honor him, his friends in the New Hampshire
Amateur Radio Association joined with the ARRL Board of Directors to pay a
lasting tribute to the important contributions he made on behalf of Amateur
Radio.

The McGan Award will go to the radio amateur who has demonstrated success in
Amateur Radio public relations and who best exemplifies McGan's volunteer
spirit. Activities for which the McGan Award is presented include efforts
specifically directed at focusing the media's and the general public's
attention on the value of Amateur Radio. This may include traditional methods,
such as generating media coverage of a specific event, or non-traditional
methods, such as hosting a radio show or being an active public speaker.

A candidate's work must fit the definition of public relations, i.e., getting a
message out to people. (public service is about providing a service.) The McGan
Award recognizes the promotion of Amateur Radio to the non-amateur community,
not for work within a club or organization that primarily benefits the Amateur
Radio community.

The award is given only to an individual, who must be a full ARRL member in
good standing at the time of nomination. The nominee must not be compensated
for any public relations work involving Amateur Radio (including payment for
articles) and may not be a current officer, Director, Vice Director, paid staff
member, or a member of the current selection committee.

The specific criteria for nomination and the nomination form (in PDF format)
are posted on the ARRL website, or e-mail Dave Isgur at ARRL Headquarters and
ask for a McGan Award entry form.

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Kristen McIntyre, K6WX, Appointed ARRL Pacific Division Vice Director

Kristen McIntyre, K6WX, of Fremont, California, has been appointed Pacific
Division Vice Director, ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR, has announced. The
appointment came upon the recommendation of Director Jim Tiemstra, K6JAT, who
succeeded longtime Pacific Division Director Bob Vallio, W6RGG, upon Vallio's
election as ARRL Second Vice President.

McIntyre, who has served as ARRL Technical Coordinator for the East Bay
Section, says on her QRZ.com profile that she's been interested in radio since
she was about 5 years old. She got her Technician license in the late 1970s
while a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After letting her
license expire, she re-licensed and obtained her Amateur Extra-class license.

She is also licensed in Japan, her second home, as JI1IZZ. She is president of
the Palo Alto Amateur Radio Association and is currently a senior software
engineer at Apple.

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Anticipated New Building Won't Be Ready for Hamvention 2018, but Flea Market
Could Expand

Due to circumstances beyond their control, Hamvention(R) 2018 organizers are
reluctantly walking back an earlier announcement that a new building would be
available for this year's event at the Greene County Fairgrounds and Expo
Center in Xenia, Ohio.

"Despite all of the best efforts and intentions by Greene County, the Greene
County Agricultural Society, and Hamvention, we have learned the anticipated
new building will not be constructed in time for Hamvention 2018," Hamvention
General Chair Ron Cramer, KD8ENJ, said. "The prefab sections bid on and
architecturally required are currently backlogged. We expect construction to be
delayed until after our show and the Greene County Fair." Cramer said
construction should be completed this year in time for Hamvention 2019. "We
regret this; however, it is well out of our control," Cramer said.

On the plus side, he continued, Hamvention 2018 will have more room for inside
exhibits, with the addition of the vacated Furniture Building, and the Flea
Market may gain new space as well.

"After consultation with professionals, we are in the process of solving the
mud issue in the Flea Market area," Cramer said. "We anticipate work to start
as soon as weather allows. We are rearranging the soccer field parking to
eliminate use of the low areas where we had problems last year."

A revised exit plan and additional off-site parking are also in the works,
along with easy-to-use maps to help visitors navigate. Parking and shuttles
will be free. Talk-in also has new equipment
and a taller tower to extend its reach.

"There are many new ideas we are working on to make your stay with us more
enjoyable," Cramer added. "Keep watching our website for updates." -- Thanks to
Hamvention General Chair Ron Cramer, KD8ENJ

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Work Progressing to Incorporate CQ Magazine's WAZ Award Program into LoTW

Beta testing for bringing CQ Magazine's Worked All Zones (WAZ) award program
into ARRL's Logbook of The World (LoTW) system continues to move forward,
officials from CQ and ARRL assured this week.

Some problems in the implementation were discovered by testers and have since
been corrected; the documentation has also been improved by feedback from the
testers. In parallel, the LoTW server has been executing a background task that
creates and populates a WAZ account for each LoTW user.

Beta testing will continue until this background task completes. When all WAZ
accounts have populated, LoTW-WAZ will be made available to everyone.

"The goal is for Amateur Radio operators to be able to directly submit LoTW
confirmations for WAZ credit," ARRL and CQ said in a joint statement. "Standard
LoTW credit fees and separate CQ award fees will apply."

Logbook of The World is ARRL's electronic confirmation system for Amateur Radio
contacts. It provides a confirmation when both stations in a contact submit
their logs to the system and a match between the logs is confirmed. LoTW has
supported the CQ WPX Award program since 2012.

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Canadian Radio Amateur Finds Resurrected NASA Satellite

When he's not on ham radio, Scott Tilley, VA7LF, an amateur astronomer, hunts
spy satellites. Using an S-band radio from his home in Roberts Creek, British
Columbia, Tilley routinely scans the skies for radio signals from classified
objects orbiting Earth, according to a recent article on Spaceweather.com.
Earlier this month, he saw the signature of IMAGE (Imager for
Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration), a NASA spacecraft believed to have
died in December 2005. The discovery has delighted space scientists.

"The long gone and nearly forgotten IMAGE spacecraft has come back to life and
been detected by an amateur astronomer," said Mission Manager Richard J. Burley
at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), which confirmed that what Tilley
spotted is, indeed, IMAGE. Amateur observer Paul Marsh, M0EYT, in the UK,
provided the first independent confirmation of the IMAGE signal.

NASA said on January 29 that observations from five sites were consistent with
the RF characteristics expected of IMAGE.

But just to make certain beyond a shadow of a doubt, scientists at Johns
Hopkins Applied Physics Lab collected telemetry from the satellite that
identified the spacecraft as IMAGE. A NASA team has been able to read some
basic housekeeping data from the spacecraft and will continue to analyze data
from the spacecraft to learn more about its condition. This will require
adapting old software and information databases to more modern systems.

After the spacecraft went silent, an unsuccessful 2007 effort was made to track
IMAGE in the hope that a "long shadow encounter" would drain the battery enough
to cause IMAGE to reset its control hardware. When that effort failed, the
mission was declared to have ended. Space scientists now theorize that an even
longer eclipse -- or other event -- did reset the system and bring the
transmitter back to life.

Launched in 2000 on a mission to monitor space weather, IMAGE mapped plasma
patterns around Earth, keeping tabs on the planet's magnetosphere as it
responded to solar activity; on-board ultraviolet cameras shot images of
Earth's auroras. "It had capabilities that no other spacecraft could match --
before or since," said Patricia Reiff, a member of the original IMAGE science
team at Rice University.

Reiff said UC Berkeley still has a ground station that was used for real-time
tracking and control and is scrambling to find the old software to see it they
can get the spacecraft to respond.

"[IMAGE's] global-scale auroral imager would be fantastic for nowcasting space
weather," Reiff said. "Fingers crossed!" -- Thanks to Alex Schwarz, VE7DXW;
Spaceweather.com; NASA

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In Brief...

AMSAT Vice President-Operations Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, has declared that
Fox-1D (AO-92) is now open for general Amateur Radio use. That word followed an
announcement from AMSAT Vice President-Engineering Jerry Buxton, N0JY, that
AO-92 had been commissioned and formally turned over to AMSAT Operations.
Initially, the U/v FM transponder will be open continuously for 1 week. After
that, operation will be shared among the U/v FM transponder, L-Band
downshifter, Virginia Tech Camera, and the University of Iowa's High-Energy
Radiation CubeSat Instrument (HERCI). AMSAT News Service, AMSAT-BB, AMSAT's
Twitter account (@AMSAT), the AMSAT-NA Facebook group, and the AMSAT website
will report any updates. AO-92 was launched from India on January 12. Testing
has shown that both the U/v FM transponder and L-Band Downshifter are working
well. The Virginia Tech camera has returned photos of Earth, and data from
HERCI has been successfully downlinked. Read more. -- Thanks to AMSAT News
Service


China's "Zhou Enlai" CubeSat, launched on January 19, is the country's first to
involve primary and middle school students. Named in honor of the first Premier
of the People's Republic of China, Zhou Enlai, the CubeSat was developed in
Huai'an Youth Comprehensive Development Base in Jiangsu Province. The 2 kg, 2U
CubeSat carries an Amateur Radio FM transponder and has SSTV capability, in
addition to a high-definition optical camera. An SSTV beacon will post date,
time, temperature, and location information on an SSTV frame. The launch was
the 100th orbital launch attempt from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The
Amateur Radio transponder has a downlink at 436.950 MHz, and an uplink at
145.930 MHz. Telemetry will be 9.6 k BPSK on 437.350 MHz. Read more.


The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) APRS packet system
is currently not working. This is due to an as-yet unidentified anomaly
involving the radio serving the system on board the ISS. A similar problem has
occurred in the past, and steps taken to resolve the problem have proven to be
only temporary. "The system may return to service as it has in the past, or it
may have finally failed completely," ARISS said in a statement. "ARISS sees the
delivery of the interoperable radio system as the true solution to securing our
ARISS packet operation." The target for delivery and installation of the
replacement system is this coming fall. In the meantime, ARISS said it's
continuing to investigate the problem and attempting to fix it.

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The K7RA Solar Update

Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, reports: Low solar activity continues, with no
sunspots seen January 20-29, and a sunspot number of 13 for January 30-31.
Average daily solar flux declined marginally from 70 to 69.1.

Predicted solar flux is 69 on February 1-3; 68 on February 4-7; 70 on February
8-22; 69 on February 23-March 4, and 70 on March 5-17.

The predicted planetary A index is 5 on February 1-3; 10 and 8 on February 4-5;
5 on February 6-8; 8, 12, and 8 on February 9-11; 5 on February 12-14; 8, 12,
8, 10, 5, 8, 10, and 8 on February 15-22; 5 on February 23-March 2; 8 on March
3-4; 5 on March 5-7; 8, 12, and 8 on March 8-10; 5 on March 11-13, and 8, 12,
8, and 10 on March 14-17.

Joe Flamini, W4BXG, in Virginia wrote to report his surprise at hearing -- and
working -- two mobile stations on 10 meters on January 27 at about 1500 UTC. "I
reached out and had a 45-second QSO with them both before the link faded," he
said. "That'll never happen again!"

Sunspot numbers for January 25-31 were 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 13, and 13, with a mean
of 3.7. The 10.7-centimeter flux was 70.3, 69.8, 68.8, 68.5, 68.2, 68.9, and
69.2, with a mean of 69.1. Estimated planetary A indices were 10, 8, 6, 4, 4,
5, and 7, with a mean of 6.3. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 9, 7, 5, 2,
3, 3, and 5, with a mean of 4.9.

Send me your reports and observations!

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Just Ahead in Radiosport

 *  February 1 -- NRAU 10 Meter Activity Contest (CW, phone, digital)
 *  February 2-4 -- YLRL YL-OM Contest (CW, phone, digital)
 *  February 3 -- FYBO Winter QRP Sprint (CW, phone, digital)
 *  February 3 -- Minnesota QSO Party (CW, phone, digital)
 *  February 3 -- AGCW Straight Key Party
 *  February 3 -- FISTS Winter Slow Speed Sprint (CW)
 *  February 3-4 -- Vermont QSO Party (CW, phone, digital)
 *  February 3-4 -- 10-10 International Winter Contest (SSB)
 *  February 3-4 -- Black Sea Cup International (CW, phone)
 *  February 3-4 -- F9AA Cup (CW)
 *  February 3-4 -- Mexico RTTY International Contest
 *  February 3-4 -- British Columbia QSO Party (CW, phone, digital)
 *  February 4 -- North American Sprint (CW)
 *  February 5 -- RSGB 80 Meter Club Championship (SSB)
 *  February 6 -- ARS Spartan Sprint (CW)
 *  February 7 -- 3.5 UKEICC 80 Meter Contest

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

 *  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 3 -- Arkansas State Convention, Russellville, Arkansas
 *  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 -- Utah Digital Communications Conference, Sandy, Utah
 *  March 24 -- MicroHAMS Digital Conference, Redmond, Washington
 *  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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