Your imaginary friends will enjoy attending the 2024 Northeast HamXposition on February 22-25 at the Best Western in Marlborough, MA. We encourage you to bring your real friends, too, of course.
Publicity
Great Publicity For HamXposition from CKUT 90.3 “International Radio Report”
The August 18, 2024 edition of “International Radio Report” contained a nice publicity piece for HamXposition. The show is carried on CKUT 90.3, at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. International Radio Report is a half hour weekly show about radio broadcasting locally and internationally.
The program can be streamed at https://ckut.ca/playlists/IR . Look for the August 18 archive issue. Click “Listen” or “Download.” The HamXposition piece is mentioned at 26 min. 00 sec. into the stream.
Meet HamXposition Program Chair Skip Youngberg, K1NKR
YouTube vblogger Marv Turner, WØMET, interviews Northeast HamXposition Program Chairperson Skip Youngberg, K1NKR, about the task of organizing the myriad number of talks and presentations at the Northeast HamXposition. https://youtu.be/bML1Za1Fs-w
Meet HamXposition Volunteer Chairperson Barbara Irby, KC1KGS
YouTube vblogger Marv Turner, WØMET, interviews Northeast HamXposition Volunteer Chairperson Barbara Irby, KC1KGS, about her duties and the important role that volunteers play at the convention. https://youtu.be/ZeG7Yq3jWUQ
YouTube Interview with HamXposition General Chairman Bob DeMattia, K1IW
Marv Turner, WØMET, interviews Northeast HamXposition General Chairman Bob DeMattia, K1IW, about the 2024 convention. #hamxpositionDX Engineering Podcast and mini-Contest University Promotion by K1DG
On May 24, 2024, Doug Grant, K1DG, was interviewed by Tim Duffy, K3LR, on the weekly DX Engineering YouTube Podcast. Doug recaps his visit to the Dayton Hamvention and gives his impressions about the convention from a contesting perspective.
At 17 minutes, 27 seconds into the broadcast, Doug puts in a nice plug for the Northeast HamXposition mini-Contest University.
K9HI: “Northeast HamXposition” at PART of Westford Meeting, April 16, 2024
Phil Temples, K9HI, presented to members of the PART of Westford (MA) radio club on April 16, 2024 about the 2024 Northeast HamXposition. The talk included the showing of the Convention’s new promotional video produced by Eric Pfeifer, N1JUR. The PART meeting was well attended.
Several PART club members are actively involved with the Convention, both presenting talks and volunteering their time.
Mt. Tom ARA Amateur Radio & Electronics Hamfest, Chicopee MA, March 2, 2024
The Mt. Tom Amateur Repeater Association held its annual Amateur Radio & Electronics Hamfest on March 2, 2024 in Chicopee, Massachusetts. HamXposition’s Prize Chair Larry Krainson, W1AST, attended. He’s
shown here passing out flyers to the vendors for the 2024 Northeast HamXposition and New England Division Convention.
HamXposition Presence at Algonquin ARC Flea Market
The Northeast HamXposition had a presence at the Algonquin ARC Flea Market in Marlboro, Massachusetts on February 17, 2024. Volunteer Chair Barbara Irby, KC1KGS; Marketing & Promotion Chair Phil Temples, K9HI; and Program Chair Skip Youngberg, K1NKR, staffed a table with handouts, business cards and a large computer monitor displaying photos from the 2023 Convention. The table was co-sponsored by New England Sci-Tech.
New England Sci-Tech Students Participate in Cubes in Space Experiments
“New England Sci-Tech students participate in the Cubes in Space program run by iEDU inc. where they create and present experiments that, if selected, launch into near-space on a NASA sounding rocket or zero pressure scientific balloon. This year, the students taking part in Cubes in Space proposed an experiment to test the viability of launching spray-dried blood into space for rehydration in a zero-gravity environment to treat traumatic injury in space.”
Since porcine blood most closely matches human blood, team is researching if APC’s products could treat traumatic injury in space. [Full story]
