DX Engineering to Sponsor 2025 Northeast HamXposition Friday DX/Contest Banquet (UPDATED)

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DX Engineering 25 logoDX 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.
 
DX Engineering will donate six $100 gift certificates toward purchase of products from the company, along with a major prize of an Icom IC-7610 with a retail value of $3,250.00. 
 
Tickets to the Friday DX/Contest dinner, as well as the convention, are available online.
 
The HamXposition Committee wishes to express its sincere appreciation to Tim Duffy and the DX Engineering team for their generosity! 

2025 HamX Call for Talks

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HamX is the largest annual gathering of Radio Amateurs east of Dayton and north of Huntsville. And it fields more talks and workshops than any other ham convention in the world. We’re not just a trade show, we convene to exchange ideas. Here’s your chance to participate. Locally, 2025 will be celebrated as the 250 th anniversary of “the shot heard ‘round the world.” But we all know that for over a century Amateur Radio’s signals have been heard ‘round the world.

Every year’s talks pretty much run the same gamut of subject areas—Antennas and Propagation, Contesting and DXing, EMCOM/PS, League, Operating Activities, Organization and Innovation, Technical, and Training. This year we’re emphasizing “signals heard ’round the world.”

So, consider volunteering to speak on signals.

  • How we generate and transmit Amateur signals. (our bands, equipment, remote systems, antennas, propagation, etc.)
  • How we modulate our signals. (CW, phone, digital, image, etc.)
  • The uses we make of our signals. (on-the-air activities, EMCOM and public service, DXing, contesting, traffic, repeaters, EME. etc.)

Even if you can’t speak, you must have some ideas regarding what you or others want to hear about—elementary topics for the newcomers among us, intermediate-level topics for the general attendees, even advanced topics to challenge and educate us all. Pass them on as a
request.

Here are this year’s planning and preparation milestones:

  • January through April – Individuals propose presentations. The Convention’s Programs Committee also solicits presentations. Speaker Login webpage active.
  • By 30 April – Solicited presenters reply.
  • By 1 June – Potential presenters commit to speaking if scheduled.
  • By 30 June – Closeout: presentation curation complete. Presenters notified.
  • By 30 June – Presenters finish populating database with personal information, talk title, and talk summary. (Minor grammatic and spelling edits are permitted until the database is locked.)
  • 15 July – Database locked. No further editing by presenters.
  • 31 July – Scheduling resolved, locked, and provided for brochure preparation.
  • 10 August – Brochure submitted to printer.
  • 21-23 August — HamXposition 2025!

It’s never too early to start planning! Contact HamXposition Program Chair Skip Youngberg at K1NKR@hamxposition.org.

HamXposition 2024 Kicks Off With Comedy!

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Juston McKenny
Juston McKinney

Start your convention visit off on a laugh with the newest addition to our HamXposition line up! We’re pleased to announce that the 2024 Northeast HamXposition will kick off with a comedy at by world-renowned comedian Juston McKinney.

Juston has starred in numerous Comedy Central shows including his half-hour Comedy Central Presents and his one-hour special “Juston McKinney-A Middle-Class Hole.” He has multiple appearances on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien as well as a Showtime Special with Rob Gronkowski. He has also appeared twice at Denis Leary’s, Comics Come Home at the TD Garden. 

Tickets are just $35, and also available as part of our “Convention Plus” package.

Seating will be limited to 250 persons, so don’t delay!

We Welcome Your Feedback!

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We’ve received much feedback and constructive criticism of this year’s HamXposition. We will try to incorporate as many ideas as possible to improve HamXposition in 2024. You may email the individual committee members, or visit our testimonial page to leave feedback.

HamXposition to Sponsor ARRL Headquarters & W1AW Tour

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Maxim Memorial Station W1AWThe 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.

 

2025 HamXposition Club Newsletter Award

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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.

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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.

 

1st, 2nd, 3rd place icons for newsletter contest

 

 

 

Thomas Witherspoon, K4SWL, To Present Keynote Address at 2025 HamXposition

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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.

Thomas will explore the enduring values of amateur radio—joy, kindness, community, diversity, and mentorship—and how they have always been at the heart of the hobby. He will highlight how mentorship, or Elmering, ensures amateur radio remains self-sustaining. It is through these values that amateur radio continues to be a dynamic and innovative space where operators push technical boundaries, foster new ideas, and build lifelong connections that will carry the hobby into the future. [Full story]

Four FEMARA Scholarships to be Announced at 2025 HamXposition and New England Division Convention

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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 Promotion at Algonquin ARC Flea Market

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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.  

HamXposition table at Algonquin Flea Market
L-R: Barbara Irby, KC1KGS; Phil Temples, K9HI; Skip Youngberg, K1NKR; Bob DeMattia, K1IW

VE2DX Electronics Design’s “Project Maple Syrop” Release at 2025 Northeast HamXposition

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VE2DX logo
 
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
Following incredible technical exchanges at HamCation 2025, VE2DX ELECTRONICS DESIGN INC president Richard G. Desaulniers Sr., VE2DX, is announcing a new project called “Project Maple Syrop.” It will be introduced as a revolutionary new product at HamXposition 2025 in late August.
 
This product is currently oriented at the huge ICOM IC-705 market that is STILL growing. It will be a game changer, low-cost, never-before-seen, and will blow your pants off!
 
At HamXposition 2025, Richard G. Desaulniers Sr., VE2DX, will be officially releasing “Project Maple Syrop,” product ID, name, technical aspect, images, and prototype. Market release dates and resellers/Partners will also be introduced.
 
VE2DX Electronics Design Inc. is a proud Canadian company founded in 2020 by Richard G. Desaulniers Sr. VE2DX creates innovative products to help ham radio operators around the world. Some of our innovations include TrueTTL advanced designs, Software Defined Interlock (SDI), and Blind and Deaf Operator Assistance (BOA).
 
“We are especially proud of our innovations, like BOA and our IM1-HDMI, which are of great help to our friends around the world with vision problems!”
 
Please join us for the official announcement at HamXposition 2025. 
 
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Richard G. Desaulniers Sr., VE2DX
President and Lead Designer
VE2DX Electronics

AA7A: “Remote DXpeditioning” at the 2025 Northeast HamXposition

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Ned Stearns, AA7AWe 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.

W2NAF: “HamSCI: Space Weather We Can Do Together” at the 2025 Northeast HamXposition

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Dr. Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAFWe 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.