New England Spectrum Management (NESMC), the amateur radio repeater frequency coordinator for Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island will hold its annual meeting in the Southborough Room/ W6 at 3:00 PM on Saturday, August 23, 2025. Repeater owners, users, members, and non members are invited to attend.
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“Worked All Bands” at the 2025 Northeast HamXposition
Brian Justin, WA1ZMS, will discuss the equipment and operating steps he has used to make QSOs on all—yes, ALL—of the 29 Amateur Radio bands including two that are no longer Part 97 allocations. His talk will be held in the Sudbury/W4 Room at 1 PM on Saturday, August 23, 2025.
Brian was first licensed in 1976 at age 11 as WA1ZMS and has held the same callsign since. He is originally from Vermont but currently lives in Virginia. He holds many World DX records and various firsts on the bands above 24 GHz including the very first Worked All Bands Award, awarded by the North East Weak Signal Group.
Need Directions to HamX?
The Minuteman Repeater Association will once again provide talk-in and directions to the 2025 Northeast HamXposition via its “Marlborough West” repeater systems:
147.270 +0.6 pl 146.2
223.940 -1.6 pl 103.5
449.925 -5.0 pl 88.5
Be sure to stop by the MMRA booth at the convention and say hello!
“Entry Level Contest Skill Development” at 2025 HamX
Join Mark Pride, K1RX, on Saturday, August 23 at 11 AM in Marlborough room/W9 as he presents “Radiosport or Contesting Operation for the Beginner,” one of the many hobbies within the hobby where multiple aspects come together. For the new amateurs interested in trying out contesting, this is a must attend. Critical success elements are presented for operating SSB and CW contests. These basic skills will establish an excellent baseline for growth and enjoyment and help advance you to the next level of contesting. Even if your CW speed is not very fast, the techniques explained will help you advance quickly.
Mark has been a radio amateur for 60 years, contesting over 50 years, past president of the YCCC, one of the Directors for WRTC 2014 Boston event, referee at German WRTC 2018 and now the NA Lead for Fundraising WRTC 2026, YouTube W1DED on contesting and enjoys paying it forward by helping new operators further their interest in Radiosport.
2025 Northeast HamXposition Club Newsletter Winners
Radio clubs are the backbone of a healthy and active ham radio community. Most active clubs produce a monthly newsletter to inform members of club activities and ham radio events. We would like to acknowledge the dedication and hard work of those radio club newsletter editors with this Club Newsletter Award.
The top three winners will receive a digital sticker (JPEG image) that can be used in their newsletter for the next 12 months showing that they are the #1, #2, or #3 best club newsletter in New England for the period September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2026.
Last year’s winners were not eligible to compete this year:
- #1 – Hampden County Radio Association from western MA
- #2 – Billerica Amateur Radio Society from eastern MA
- #3 – Blackstone Valley Amateur Radio Club from Rhode Island
The 2025 winning clubs will be acknowledged at the ARRL Club Track at 12 noon in the Princess Room / E9 at HamXposition on Friday, August 22, 2025. They are:
- #1 — Cape Ann (Gloucester, MA) ARA “CAARA News”
- #2 — Nashoba Valley ARC (Pepperell, MA) “Signal”
- #3 — Providence Radio Association (R.I.) “The Old Professor”
Thanks to all the clubs who were entered in the 2025 club newsletter competition:
- Androscoggin ARC (Maine)
- Blackstone Valley ARC (Rhode Island)
- Boston ARC (Massachusetts)
- Cape Ann ARA (Massachusetts)
- Ellsworth Amateur Wireless Association (Maine)
- Minuteman Repeater Association (Massachusetts)
- Nashoba Valley ARC (Massachusetts)
- Radio Amateurs of Northern Vermont (Vermont)
- Providence Radio Association (Rhode Island)
- Wellesley ARS (Massachusetts)
SKYWARN Spotter Training at 2025 HamX
Don’t miss the SKYWARN Spotter training class offered by the National Weather Service Boston/Norton office, at the Northeast HamXposition from 1-3 PM in Salon A / E2 on Friday, August 22, 2025. The training will cover reporting criteria for all weather hazards inculding winter storms, hurricanes and all weather hazards with a focus on severe thunderstorm and tornadic development.
Rob Macedo, KD1CY, graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree from U. Mass Dartmouth. He has worked at Dell Technologies for over 29 years where he is a senior principal hardware engineer.
KD1CY has always had a very strong interest in technology, meteorology, emergency management, emergency and public service event communications. He has been the Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES) SKYWARN Coordinator for NWS Boston/Norton for 28 years and is the Eastern Massachusetts ARES Section Emergency Coordinator. When he is not at work or doing Amateur Radio public service, emergency communications and weather spotting volunteer work, Rob enjoys movies, shows, time with family and friends, as well as sporting events.
“Configure FLDIGI for Participation in Nets” at 2025 HamXpo
Join Don Rolph, AB1PH, who will show how to configure FLDIGI so you can participate in emergency nets at 11 AM on Sunday, August 24, at the 2025 Northeast HamXposition.
Don Rolph is an ARES Emergency Coordinator for Norfolk County, MA. He has an article published in the September/October 2023 edition of the ARRL publication QEX magazine entitled, “An Open Source Meta-Design for an APRS™ Appliance” describing the function, design and testing of a low cost APRS device.
AB1PH was first licensed in 1961 as WH6EHQ. He was re-licensed in the 1970s as WA2CNM. He was licensed as AB1PH in 2012.
“Cubes In Space – An Awesome Youth Activity for Your Club” at 2025 Northeast HamXposition
Come and hear a discussion on how you can revitalize the youth participation in your club with an activity that allows students between the ages of 11 and 18 to launch a small project on a NASA sounding rocket at the Northeast HamXposition on Saturday at 2 PM. Bob Phinney, K5TEC, along with several students who launched their project from Goddard Space Flight Center’s Wallops Flight Facility, will present.
Bob Phinney, K5TEC, retired from 38 years of teaching at a private school in Brookline, MA. He taught after-school STEM classes, radio and electronics courses, classical LATIN, math, photography, and science. In 2014 he founded New England Amateur Radio, Inc. (NE1AR), a non-profit to develop wireless educational curricula, as well as provide regular or on-call VE sessions. In 2018 he founded New England Sci-Tech, a non-profit STEM education center that teaches electronics and wireless communications with an emphasis on getting youth into the amateur radio hobby.
“NTS Meet and Greet” at 2025 Northeast HamXposition
Come to the NTS Meet and Greet, hosted by veteran traffic handler Marcia Forde, KW1U, and meet with traffic handlers throughout New England and beyond at 2 PM in Northborough/W7 on Saturday, August 23, 2025.
“We welcome seasoned traffic handlers and those just curious what it is all about,” writes Marcia. “Get questions answered here, exchange information, share stories, and perhaps pick up a tip or two. Questions about NTS 2.0? We’ll try to have answers for that, too.”
Marcia Forde KW1U, is Section Traffic Manager for Eastern and Western Mass and Rhode Island. She’sheld various leadership positions in NTS over the past 40+ years, including section CW net manager, Eastern Area net manager, TCC Director and Eastern Area Staff Chair.
[NOTE: this session was accidently omitted from the printed program.]Special Door Prize at 2025 HamX mini Contest University
Doug Grant, K1DG, writes on the YCCC list:
Attention W1/2/3 and VE1/2/3 contesters!
The Northeast HamXposition event in Marlborough, MA will once again host a miniCTU program all day on Friday, August 22.
This is a single-track all-day program featuring well-known contesters presenting on topics for all levels of contesters from beginner to expert.
Speakers include K1AR, K2TR, K1RX, W1UE, NN1SS, K1KP, W1VE, and N1PGA. In addition, K1DG will present some of NCØB’s latest transceiver test results.
Registration for miniCTU is free, but please register at:
https://hamxposition.org/mini-contest-university-registration/ to let us know you’re coming.
Don’t panic if you don’t get an acknowledgement. Assume you are in the log.
>>>>>UPDATE:<<<<<
W2RE/Ham Radio 24/7 has donated a DX Launcher tennis ball gun for hanging wire antennas way up in the trees as a miniCTU door prize. You must be present to win.
Also, the Contest/DX dinner Friday evening will feature Tim Duffy, K3LR, as the guest speaker and will offer an IC7610 door prize. Tickets for the dinner (and all other HamXPO events) can be purchased here:
73, and hope to see you there!
Doug K1DG