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.
DX 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.
The Northeast HamXposition and New England Division Convention announces it will again sponsor a daylong Tech In A Day study review session at the Convention on Saturday, August 23, 2025 from 8 AM – 5 PM. The course is conducted by the Cape Ann Amateur Radio Association in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Larry Krainson, W1AST, writes:
The Northeast HamXposition received great publicity during an interview with Richard Desaulniers, of 
