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.

NEW: Nonprofit Table Application Form

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If your nonprofit club or organization wants to have a table or display at HamXposition, be sure to use the new signup form, found at <https://hamxposition.org/organizations/>. 

Note: Tables will be allocated based on availability.  Completion of this form does NOT guarantee that you will be assigned one.   Please contact Mike Raisbeck, k1twf@hamx.org with any questions.

MARS and SHARES Talk at HamX

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If you want to learn more about the Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) and SHared RESources (SHARES), be sure to attend the MARS/SHARES presentation by Tom Kinahan, N1CPE, at the 2025 Northeast HamXposition.

HamXposition Program Chair’s 2025 Message

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Skip Youngberg, K1NKRBe sure to read the 2025 Program Chair Greeting from Skip Youngberg, K1NKR, to all HamXposition attendees.

This year’s program will feature a wide-ranging list of topics including: League news, EMCOM-Public Service, Antennas and Propagation, On-The-Air activities, Technology, Contesting and DX, and “History, Invention, and Reinvention” (innovative ideas about what we do and how we do it).  License training and examinations are also included.

There’s something for everyone at HamX!

Mark Pride, K1RX, to Join WRTC 2026 Fund Raising Effort

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WRTC 2026 logo(Be sure to visit the WRTC 2026 booth at this year’s Northeast HamXposition!)
 
Mark Haynes, MØDXR, writes:
 
“On behalf of the WRTC 2026 UK organising committee, I am pleased to introduce Mark Pride, K1RX, as he joins our Fund Raising Team.  In this role, Mark will be the principle point of contact for Personal and Club donations to the WRTC 2026 event for general inquiries or guidance regarding different methods of making a donation.  Please contact Mark with any questions you may have regarding your donation in North America.
 
“Just a brief note about Mark’s background:  Over 60 years of amateur radio experience, contesting for the past 45 years in HF and VHF/UHF events with several awards for top scorer in his region, a past president of the Yankee Clipper Contest Club, past director of WRTC 2014 for Towers and Antennas, leading 16 teams to standup 65 operating sites in 72 hours! Additionally, was a Referee at the WRTC 2018 event in Germany for the Finnish team. And what is particularly nice, Mark is retired and can provide our donor community with the appropriate support leading up to the main event in July, 2026.
 
“Mark adds this note:  I am in the mode of paying it forward to the amateur radio community with a keen interest in helping launch the youth into radio sport.  While supporting this particular role for the WRTC 2026 UK event, I particularly appreciate the organisation’s interest matching my enthusiastic support of younger hams to this amazing experience.  Four youth teams are planned as well as activities such as a school visit which serves as a perfect catalyst for giving back!
 
“Mark can be reached at (603)-973-5963 (Eastern Time Zone) k1rx@arrl.net“
 
73,
Mark
M0DXR / G9W
Chairman WRTC UK OC