The Northeast HamXposition received great publicity during an interview with Richard Desaulniers, of VE2DX Electronics Design, Inc. Richard was interviewed on the popular Ham Radio Workbench Podcast #232. HamX is mentioned at around 1h 50m into the broadcast.
VE2DX Electronics Design plans to announce its new Project Maple Syrop at the 2025 HamX.
The Northeast HamXposition (“HamX”) will sponsor a tour of the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station, W1AW, in Newington, Connecticut, in addition to visits to the ARRL lobby/store and the state-of-the-art ARRL Laboratory station, W1HQ.
Transportation will be provided to Newington via shuttle bus from the Convention site in Marlborough, leaving at Friday morning, August 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM and returning by 4 PM that afternoon. The cost is $49. An optional box lunch may be purchased for $12. Tickets for the tour may be purchased online at https://ticketing.hamxposition.org.
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 contest is open to all New England amateur radio clubs. Your club doesn’t have to be big to be competitive. Each entry will be judged based on content and design.
Submit an issue of your newsletter from the second quarter of 2025 (April, May, or June) and email to: NewsletterContest@HamX.org. The submission deadline is Friday, July 1, 2025.
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 will be ineligible to participate in the this year’s competition to allow other clubs to win.
DX Engineering (“DXE”) has graciously agreed to be the official sponsor for the Northeast HamXposition Friday evening DX/Contest Banquet. Featured guest and world-reowned international DXer/Contester Ned Stearns, AA7A, will present on the Radio-In-a-Box (RIB) technology.
The Northeast HamXposition and New England Division Convention is most fortunate to have as its keynote speaker Thomas Witherspoon, K4SWL. Thomas has been a ham radio operator since 1997, making most of his contacts in the field with low-power (QRP) gear. He runs QRPer.com, the SWLing Post, and the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive, and is a regular co-hosts the Ham Radio Workbench podcast. A 2023 inductee into the QRP Hall of Fame, Thomas has a deep love for chasing weak signals from the great outdoors.
The ARRL Foundation will award four individuals with FEMARA scholarships in 2025, according to ARRL Development Operations Manager Christina Lessard, KC1TDM.
“We had a record number of applicants this year and are happy that we have such generous donors like FEMARA to assist these young amateur radio operators towards achieving their educational goals,” Christina writes. “The Foundation hopes to have the final list of recipients completed by early summer.”
HamXposition volunteers were out in force to promote the Northeast HamXposition (“HamX”) on February 15, 2025, at the local Algonquin Amateur Radio Club Flea Market in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Around 300 people attended the annual flea market, and many interacted with the convention volunteers, watched a photo carousel on a large computer monitor from last year’s HamXposition, and picked up flyers and business cards promoting the convention.
The Northeast HamXposition in run by FEMARA, Inc., and hosts the ARRL New England Division Convention.
We are pleased to have as our special guest presenter a well-known international DXer/Contester, Ned Stearns, AA7A, at the DX/Contest Banquet at the 2025 Northeast HamXposition.
The Radio-In-a-Box (RIB) technology has made a big impact in the DX (and contesting) realm. Its use in high-profile DXpeditions has changed the DXing game forever. The use of RIBs in DXpeditions can provide numerous benefits such as reduced project costs, lower environmental impact and safer operations. The “Remote DXpedition” presentation will provide AA7A’s perspective on the nearly seven-year development effort of the RIB concept and other emerging technologies and how their application to DXing is an exciting step forward in amateur radio.
The DX/Contest Banquet will be held at the Best Western Hotel and Conference Center Marlborough, Massachusetts on Friday evening, August 22, 2025. Tickets for the banquet and other events can be purchased online at https://ticketing.hamxposition.org.
We are proud to feature special guest speaker Dr. Nathaniel A. Frissell, W2NAF, from the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) program who will present “HamSCI: Space Weather We Can Do Together!” at the 2025 HamXposition Grand Banquet. Dr. Frissell will discuss results from a number of recent HamSCI experiments, what’s next for HamSCI in the future, and how you can participate in these exciting projects.
The Grand Banquet will be held at the Best Western Hotel and Conference Center Marlborough, Massachusetts on Saturday evening, August 23, 2025. Tickets for the banquet and other events can be purchased online at https://ticketing.hamxposition.org.