Program

Join Bob Phinney, K5TEC, as he presents “Radio Astronomy & Satellites – Awesome Club Activities” in the Southborough/W6 Room at 12 noon on Saturday, August 15 at the 2026 Northeast HamXposition.

“This year we offered a new hands-on introduction to digital radio, satellite communication, and radio astronomy to students and adults at New England Sci-Tech. Using Software Defined Radio (SDR) and homemade antennas, we explored the RF spectrum and captured real signals from aircraft, satellites, and the galaxy. Our students and club leaders will share what we learned so you can try some of these ideas with your club.”

Bob 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.

Join Bradshaw Lupton, K1TE, as he presents “GPS-NTP $20, 20 Nanosecond Home Time Server, Frequency Beacon” on Saturday, August 15, 2026 in Duchess / E1 at the 2026 Northeast HamXposition.

“This work explores an alternative to GPS-based timing, using millennia-proven astronomical timekeeping – achieving ~10 ms accuracy at home by observing star and planet transits. With help from ChatGPT, I’ve been developing both the software and the experimental methods behind this approach. The techniques, tools, and lessons learned make up roughly half of this shared talk. Visit this website the week before to purchase the materials you will need for this session: https://lupton.us/VU3CER VU3CER GPS-NTP Stratum Zero What is it? Improved from last years HAMX: a true, slick, no-solder Quick GPS timing, NTP, and professional frequency-standard project.”

Dhiru Kholia was first licensed as VU3CER in 2019. He received a BE degree in Electronics & Telecommunication from Pune University in 2006. He then pursued a career in software security engineering with various MNC firms. He became interested in electronics again after a long gap due to his growing passion for hardware security. Besides amateur radio, he enjoys table tennis, chess, releasing miscellaneous projects on GitHub, and reverse-engineering software and hardware stuff.

Bradshaw Lupton, K1TE, was licensed as WA2IVF in 1968. He was an engineer at Honeywell and Polaroid for 33 years, and a physics and chemistry teacher in the Boston area for 11 years. Bradshaw advises the Sandwich STEM Academy and has developed WSPR/FT8 STEM classes for the Chatham Marconi RCA museum. His STEM students are learning the power of WSJTX digital with 3.3v and 1/100 watt making it, occasionally, from Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts to Melbourne, Australia.

ORDER THIS LIST AND BRING TO OUR CLASS AT HAMXPOSITION Marlborough https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/IMM7FFGG07RL?ref_=list_d_wl_lfu_nav_1 which builds two devices. So bring a friend, or build two. the class is fun and free. Bring a 435 mhz walkie talkie to prove that your device is actually +/- 20 billionths of a second.”

In 2024 and 2025, Northeast HamXposition ran a series of very successful presentations – Club Track – with the idea that successful clubs could share ideas with other clubs to help them grow and prosper.  By popular demand, Club Track is back for 2026.  Please ask someone from your club to attend Club Track.  Northeast HamXposition – https://hamxposition.org.

The “Club Track” talks are focused on “clubs-helping-clubs” – successful clubs helping other 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. Club Track will take place on Friday afternoon, August 14th.  The current schedule is as follows:

      Time                         Presenter                         Representing                                          Topic

Please consider sending a club member (or members!) to these presentations.  We would like to see your club represented.

I’m emailing you PERSONALLY (not from an automatic database), so please reply to me at k1bg@hamxposition.org if you have questions or if you want me to remove you from this list.  DO NOT REPLY to k1bg.bruce@gmail.com.

And please let me know if you have any questions.  I hope to see YOU at the HamXposition Club Track presentations.

73 de –

Bruce, K1BG

HamXposition Club Track 2026

Join Howard Chain, K9NPD, as he presents “Tactical Communications for Amateur Radio” on Saturday, August 15, 2026 at 12 noon in Marlborough/W9 at the 2026 Northeast HamXposition.

“This presentation benefits ARES members and any ham who wants to improve their communication precision, efficiency, and delivery of time-critical messages. Drawing on over 30 years of consulting experience with public safety agencies, I will cover tactical communications and make them relevant to ham radio in a practical, real-world way.”

With over 40 years of experience as a licensed amateur radio operator, I have served as Net Control for hundreds of HAM and ARES events, including ​planned ARES Public Service Events,​Communications emergencies, the annual Simulated Emergency Tests, and the Boston Marathon​ as a Ham and with public safety agencies. In addition to my volunteer work, I consult on communication pre-planning for the Boston Marathon​, and have worked directly with government agencies as a Communications Specialist, Group Leader, Communication​ Supervisor, and ​currently as a radio communications consultant. Complementing my technical background, I am ​was a call firefighter and I am a retired police officer with 25 years of experience training urban law enforcement and public safety agencies. I also hold degrees in Electrical Engineering and Business Marketing, allowing me to bring both technical expertise and strategic planning to public safety communications.

Join Larry Banks, W1DYJ, as he presents “Finding and Chasing DX with FT8” in the Duchess Room/E1 at 11 a.m. on Sunday, August 16, at the Northeast HamXposition.

“You have been using FT8 for a while. You are interested in increasing your DX totals and wonder what all of this Fox/Hound and SuperFox stuff is all about. Plus you want to be better at finding the DX! I will review some FT8 and DX basics, discuss FT8 DX modes like Fox/Hound and SuperFox, and end with some methods to find and track the DX you seek.”

Licensed in 1961 as novice KN1VFX, Larry became W1DYJ in 1966. After acquiring three degrees in EE from MIT, Larry was hired in 1969 by Hewlett-Packard Medical’s Cardiac R&D Lab in Waltham MA (later in Andover MA) first developing a modem for Computerized Electrocardiography. He then was on the original team that developed the first successful Cardiac Ultrasound system. He moved to HP Medical Education in 1993, responsible for technical and project management training. When HP split apart, he became Agilent Technologys global program manager for their Learning Management System.

Join Rob Macedo, KD1CY, as he presents “Advanced Topics in SKYWARN – Doppler Radar Fundamentals & How You Can Help with Severe Weather Reporting Situational Awareness” at the 2026 Northeast HamXposition. (Time, date, room T.B.A.)

Have you wanted to get more involved in supporting SKYWARN but have rarely seen criteria to report on SKYWARN Nets? Have you wanted to learn more about Doppler Radar analysis during the summer severe weather season? This class will cover both these topics with new content from events since the last HamXpo! Very often, particularly for severe thunderstorms and localized flood events along with other weather scenarios, damage can be very localized but significant where the damage or flooding occurs. This seminar is intended to give Amateur Radio operators a way to contribute further by supporting proper public safety radio monitoring via personal scanners and online public safety feeds, proper social media monitoring techniques and monitoring local weather stations in your city or town or a local range of cities and towns to help support reporting into the National Weather Service to protect life and property. We will cover the need for net controls and monitoring of local area repeaters during severe weather situations. We will also cover Doppler Radar fundamentals and go through a few radar scenarios from past severe weather events.

Rob Macedo, KD1CY, was born and raised in Saratoga Springs, NY, and moved to New Bedford, MA, for college in 1991, where he attended UMass-Dartmouth and graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree. He works at Dell Technologies where he has been for over 30 years. Rob is a senior principal hardware engineer on Technical Staff and former Director of System Integration in the Device Engineering (DE) department where he previously managed a global team of engineers working on disk drive and Solid State Drive evaluation in Dell-EMC products and now is a technical lead in this area working with the same global team of system integration engineers. Rob has always had a very strong interest in technology, meteorology, emergency management, emergency and public service event communications. Rob has been the Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES) SKYWARN Coordinator for NWS Boston/Norton (previously Taunton) for 30 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.

Join Marcia Forde, KW1U, as she presents “NTS: Is It Relevant Today?” in the W7/Northborough Room at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 15 at the 2026 Northeast HamXposition in Marlborough.

“The National Traffic System was a flagship program of the ARRL during the 50s, 60s and 70s, prior to the emergence of the internet. It still exists today with a renewed purpose, new programs and activities. Explore the NTS of today and its potential for the future in a rapidly changing world.”

Marcia Forde KW1U, is ARRL Section Traffic Manager for Eastern and Western Mass and Rhode Island, having held various leadership positions in NTS over the past 45 years, including section CW net manager, Eastern Area net manager, TCC Director and Eastern Area Staff Chair.

Join Jonathan Slawsby, W5GI, as he presents “Choosing Your First Ham Radio” on Saturday, August 15, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. in Room Salon B at the Northeast HamXposition.

New to ham or looking to get your license? This presentation will try to help you navigate the numerous different types of radios available.

Jonathan Slawsby was born and raised in the Boston area. In January of 2024 he received his Technician’s Class license following on with his General and Extra licenses over the course of the next month. In his 2 plus years of being an operator Jonathan has owned over 40 different radios, from very basic HT’s to some of the highest end SDR’s. His interests include DX chasing, FT8 as well as POTA operations. He operates both in the US and in the British Virgin Islands under VP2V/W5GI call. He completed a kilo at park VG-0021 before any other operator had avtivated the park.

You’ll not want to miss “Elecraft updates with Q&A” with Elecraft Co-founder Eric Swartz, WA6HHQ at the 2026 Northeast HamXposition.

Eric will discuss the K4 Transceiver, K4 software releases and updates, the K4/0 Remote System, plus Q&A on all Elecraft products.

Eric Swartz, WA6HHQ, is Elecraft’s CEO, a co-designer of Elecraft’s K4, K3S, K2 and other Elecraft products. He co-founded Elecraft in 1998 with Wayne Burdick, N6KR. Licensed for over 54 years, his early interest in Amateur Radio led him to a career in electronic design and management. He received his B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science (Electronics) from Yale University in 1979 and has been involved in a number of successful Silicon Valley startups. Prior to Elecraft, Eric was co-founder and President of Verisys, a test equipment manufacturer of high-performance protocol analyzers for the computer and mass storage market. Wayne and Eric also jointly received the ARRL’s Technical Excellence Award for their Elecraft radio designs.