Program

The slides from the 2025 HamX presentation, “Antennas for Backyard, Balcony, Attic, or Wherever” by Bob Glorioso, W1IS, are now posted on the Battery Eliminator Store website.

Talk Description:

We have found that many new hams and retiring hams are living in apartments or condos where they have limited ability to get on HF while others have constraints like HOAs or family concerns about the aesthetics of wires, masts or beams hanging on the house. It takes more than reading an add or buying a mobile antenna to get on HF. First, they must understand the basics of antennas or they are stymied. This presentation covers the principles needed and examples of successful HF antennas in a restricted environment.

Join facilitator Seth Kendall, KC1PZY, and friends and play some games with your fellow hams! “We’ve got everything from party games, to strategy games, to classic games like Chess and Go.” Saturday, August 23 at 5 PM for 90 minutes in the Atrium.

Join W1UAA in Wayland/W1 at 2 PM, Saturday, August 23, 2025, and discover how K2K, the New Hampshire station of the 13 Colonies Special Event, uses HAMLOG as a powerful collaboration tool for event managers, team operators, and hunters. This session explores how HAMLOG streamlines scheduling, QSL handling, award tracking, and team communication — all in one secure, passwordless platform. Whether you manage a special event or participate as a chaser, learn how HAMLOG can enhance efficiency, reduce manual work, and bring your event coordination into the modern era. Perfect for organizers looking to simplify logistics and improve participant engagement.

Eugene Glukhov, W1UAA, has over 15 years of experience in amateur radio. He’s an active participant in various contests, both individually and as a team member. He is co-founder of HAMLOG, a platform for active amateur radio operators. Eugene has organized and managed special event stations for ten years. W1UAA is currently manager of K2K, the special event station representing New Hampshire in the annual 13 Colonies Special Event. 

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. 

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. 

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!

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.  

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. 

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.