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Installing a mobile radio in your vehicle can be a challenging but rewarding project. Join Zachary Sherman, KC1NXK, as he presents “Mobile Radio Installation Techniques and Tricks” at the 2026 Northeast HamXposition.

Using examples from his own installations, Zachary will demonstrate techniques for cleanly installing mobile radios and other electronic accessories in vehicles.

Long before he heard of amateur radio, Zachary enjoyed playing with FRS walkie-talkies with friends. Sent home from Olin College due to COVID, he became a Technician licensee in September 2020. Zachary soon became a co-leader of the Olin Collegiate Amateur Radio Club, helping students earn their radio licenses then volunteer for public service events. Zachary graduated in 2023 and now works as a biomedical engineer. Zachary enjoys community amateur radio events at New England Sci-Tech in Natick, MA, making contacts via the ISS repeater, studying for his General license test, and working on his mobile radio installation. He is currently president of the Sci-Tech Amateur Radio Society (STARS).

Join M/C Phil Temples, K9HI as he hosts “Open-Mic Storytelling” at HamX.

Perhaps ham radio impacted your life in a way you couldn’t have imagined? Or, you saw or witnessed something ham radio-related that had you doubled over in laughter? Now’s the time to share your ham radio-related story! This event will allow each participant to tell the audience his or her unique ham radio story. This event will take place Saturday night in hotel Atrium, following the conclusion of the Grand Banquet.

Phil Temples, K9HI, was first licensed fifty-six years ago as WN9EAY in Bloomington, Indiana. He holds an Amateur Extra class license. Phil is a QST author and an ARRL Diamond Club Life Member. He also serves as ARRL Vice Director for the New England Division. When he’s not focused on ham radio activities, Phil writes fiction. He has published sixteen novels and story collections in addition to over 350 online stories and visual art. You could say that storytelling is in his blood.

Join Bruce Blain, K1BG, as he moderates a Club Track at HamXposition focused on successful clubs helping clubs by sharing programs that have worked for them. A series of half hour talks, by clubs and for clubs, to help clubs energize, invigorate, and grow. (Date, time, room, T.B.A.)

K1BG has been a ham for over 50 years. He’s past president of the Nashoba Valley ARC and the Norwood ARC, and is the ARRL Affiliated Club Coordinator for Eastern Massachusetts.

Join Anne Manna, WB1ARU, and Barbara Irby, KC1KGS, as they host the YL Meet and Greet Forum at the 2026 Northeast HamXposition. The forum is an excellent venue to meet other young lady amateurs and discuss common issues. 

Join Bob M Glorioso, W1IS, for “Using Antenna Principles to Get Out from Difficult Locations” at the 2026 Northeast HamXposition. (Date, time, room T.B.A.)

“Knowing the principles of antennas is basic to knowing how to get antennas to work where you least expect them to work. We will present the concepts you need to succeed including a few examples and descriptions of inexpensive wire antennas you can build yourself.”

Co-Authors Bob Glorioso, W1IS, and Bob Rose, KC1DSQ, have written three QST Cover Plaque articles since June 2021 and the 2024 Antenna Design Competition for their All Band 160m OCF in Auguet 2025. They wrote several articles for CQ including as Guest Antenna Editors. They just released the Second Edition of their book on wire antennas available at OCFmasters.com.

W1IS and KC1DSQ are retired engineers who have been working for the last seven years on antennas of all sizes and shapes, single band beams including phased dipoles and multi-band configurations, with a goal of delivering less than 3:1 SWR across a wide range of frequencies.

Are you an ARRL member living in New Hampshire? Join ARRL Section Manager Dennis Markell, N1IMW, as he hosts “Whats New in New Hampshire?” a NH town hall forum at the 2026 Northeast HamXposition. (Time, date, room T.B.A.) 

Review of latest Section efforts including contesting, NTS, ARES, DX and more. The forum will also will serve as an ARRL member forum for any questions and topics of interest.

Join Ron Evett, N1QY, Holliston, MA, for an informative presentation entitled “Understanding SWR: A talk on Transmission Lines and Impedance Matching” at the 2026 Northeast HamXposition.  (Time, date, room T.B.A.) The goal is to best deliver power to the antenna.

Ron is a retired radar engineer. He is active in DX, contests, and county hunting. He has managed to fit 3 dipoles and 2 verticals on his 100 x 100 foot lot.

Join Mindy Hull, KM1NDY, as she presents “Doomsday POTA: Why Portable Ham Radio Is The Ultimate Prepper Hobby” at the 2026 Northeast HamXposition. (time, date, room T.B.A.)

“Before burying your brand-new Baofeng at the bottom of your bugout bag and considering yourself Comms-ready for TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It for all you normies), it’s probably time so-called preppers take a hard look at what ham radio really offers for emergency preparedness. It is not a secret that a large percentage of recently licensed amateurs entered the radio hobby in order to level-up their survivalist game. And not quite unexpectedly, a critical contingent within our ranks likes to mock those performing low-commitment efforts at communication preparedness such as buying — and quickly shelving — unused, cheap, dual-band handi-talkies. And they may have a point… Ham radio is not a particularly easy tool to learn on the fly in the middle of a potentially world-ending event! Let’s talk about how amateur radio, and in particular portable operations such as SOTA and POTA, offers a menagerie of opportunities to develop and practice real-life communications and other emergency skills.”

Licensed in 2019, KM1NDY was inspired to get involved in Summits-On-The-Air by Steve WG0AT’s fascinating goat-packing videos and incredible CW hilltopping. KM1NDY currently sits in 12th place in the New England division of the SOTA program.

Be sure to attend KI2D’s informative presentation, “Ham2K Portable Logger, or How to Be Happy Logging on Your Phone” at the 2026 Northeast HamXposition. (Time, date, room T.B.A.)

Sebastian’s talk will discuss portable operations like POTA, SOTA, etc., and why you should consider using your phone or tablet to log them. He will also demonstrate Ham2K PoLo portable logging features.

Sebastian Delmont, KI2D, lives in the Southern Catskills in NY. He is a full time Software Developer at a startup, part of the organizing committee for the DX Marathon, the Hudson Division representative to the ARRL Advisory Contesting Committee, an active member of the Sullivan County ARES Group, an avid contester, DXer and Parks activator. And in his spare time, he writes open-source apps for amateur radio under the umbrella of Ham2K Technologies.

Join John Rokicki, KC1VMZ, as he presents “Net Central—a New Spin on APRS, Nets and EmComm Tools” at the 2026 Northeast HamXposition.

Says John: “Net Central was developed to leverage the power of APRS to bring managed nets to APRS, provide situational awareness of the surrounding ham infrastructure, and augment reality by extending the set (and intelligence) of APRS objects available for EmComm settings.”

This presentation will discuss the use cases for Net Central, its unique offering in APRS, and even an interactive demo for those in the audience capable of using APRS on-site.

John Rokicki, KC1VMZ, is a relatively new ham with a passion for APRS! Getting his licenses as a response to viewing the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, he focused his attention on EmComm and gravitated towards APRS. With APRS as a potent technology, he realized that EmComm-focused solutions could be built leveraging it. Net Central became a passion project, melding his software engineering background and growing love of APRS.