Be sure to read Northeast HamXposition Prize Chair W1AST’s 2025 Welcome message. Larry describes just a few of the exciting prizes that await lucky attendees at the 2025 HamX August 22-25, 2025.
The Northeast HamXposition and New England ARRL Convention would be delighted to have more collegiate clubs at this year’s convention. Our goal is to attract more youth of any age into amateur radio, but also to highlight the local colleges that have amateur radio clubs and perhaps interest youth in staying in the hobby through their college years.
Collegiate clubs get exposure and recognition from the ham radio community, perhaps bringing in alumni who are delighted the club is still going, perhaps attracting some donations of equipment and funding. They get to promote their school clubs with a pasteboard or banner, handouts, etc., for free.
Collegiate club members who attend will have free admission for all days and activities.
For more information, see <https://hamxposition.org/collegiate-clubs/>.
The Northeast HamXposition and New England Division Convention announces it will again sponsor a daylong Tech In A Day study review session at the Convention on Saturday, August 23, 2025 from 8 AM – 5 PM. The course is conducted by the Cape Ann Amateur Radio Association in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Details and registration form can be found at https://hamxposition.org/tech-in-a-day-study-course/.
Now is the time to advertise your radio club or organization in the 2025 Northeast HamXposition program book.
You must submit camera-ready ad copy to: w1dyj@hamxposition.org by July 28, 2025. Prices start for as little as $50. It’s a great way to promote your club!
Larry Krainson, W1AST, writes:The Northeast HamXposition is once again proud to announce the return of the popular “Mini-Contest University” workshop.
Mini-Contest University, or mini-CTU, based on K3LR’s popular Contest University, has been featured at the Dayton Hamvention since 2007 and has been presented in 15 countries to over 10,000 participants, is a series of contest-oriented talks and presentations offered at HamXposition on Friday.
There is no fee to attend. Registration will be announced soon.
Last year’s mini-CTU offerings featured some of the top contesters in New England: Mark Pride, K1RX; Doug Grant, K1DG; John Dorr, K1AR; Gerry Hull, W1VE, Dennis Egan, W1UE, Randy Thompson, K5ZD; Paul Young, K1XM; and others.
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Stay tuned for updates.
Major prizes have been announced at the 2025 Northeast HamXposition.
“Our website lists the door prizes that have been both donated by vendors and purchased by the committee,” explains Prize Chair Larry Krainson, W1AST.
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.
