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

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

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!

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!

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.

VE2DX Electronics Design to Announce “Maple Syrup Project” at 2025 Northeast HamXposition

pix of maple syrup canLaval, Quebec, July 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — VE2DX Electronics Design Inc. will introduce following the Thomas Witherspoon K4SWL Convention Keynote address in Salon A at 10h00 AM on August 23, 2025, our prototype of our new ARS1-BT aka “Maple Syrup Project.” This brand-new technology automatic antenna management system will be a game changer in the ham radio field radio market.

The ARS1-BT is designed for smaller ham radios like the ICOM IC-705, FT-100, FT-8X7 series, etc. that support both HF, VHF and UHF on a single antenna port, offering the user separate VHF/UHF and HF (both RX and TX) ports. It will also support the new RAS series of remote antenna switches, offering up to six different antennas to the operator.

Based on existing advanced VE2DX Electronics Design technologies like: TrueTTL, TrueCIV, TrueCAT, BOA, ASM, and more, it will offer blind and deaf operator assistance, advanced RFI filtering and shielding, advanced signal processing, automatic signal leveling, advanced CAT/CIV port management, CAT/CIV over bluetooth and WiFi, and powerful band management..

Please join us Saturday, August 23, 2025, from 10h00 to 10h30 at HamXposition, in the Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel andTrade Center, Salon A, following the Thomas Witherspoon, K4SWL, Convention Keynote address for our OFFICIAL RELEASE of the VE2DX Electronics Design Inc. “Maple Syrup Project,” the ARS1-BT.

VE2DX ELECTRONICS DESIGN INC. was founded in Laval Quebec in 2020. It is a privately owned proud Canadian Electronics company designing advance electronics devices for Ham Radio operator across the world.

For More information, please contact:

Richard G. Desaulniers Sr., VE2DX
President and Lead Designer
VE2DX ELECTRONICS DESIGN INC.
WWW.VE2DX.COM
Info@ve2dx.com
450-689-4591

2025 Northeast HamXposition Friday Evening DX/Contest Banquet Speaker: Tim Duffy, K3LR

Due to unforeseen circumstances, our original banquet speaker Ned Sterns, AA7A, will be unavailable.

Tim Duffy, K3LR, will be the featured guest speaker at the Friday evening DX/Contest Banquet. Tim will discuss contesting history and what the future might hold with a focus on clubs and youth.

K3LR has been an active amateur radio operator for over 53 years – starting as WN3SZX in 1972.  He has hosted over 180 different ham radio operators from around the world as part of the K3LR Multi operator Multi transmitter radio sport contest efforts since 1992.  K3LR has built a 14 tower station with 11 operating positions.

Tim Duffy, K3LRTim was the ARRL Atlantic Division Technical Achievement award winner in 1998.  He has been the moderator of the Hamvention Antenna forum for 41 years. K3LR serves as chairman of Contest University (16 years), the Dayton Contest Dinner (31 years), chairman of the Top Band Dinner – as well as co-coordinator of the Contest Super Suite (38 years) in Dayton during the yearly Dayton Hamvention. 

Tim is founder and moderator of the popular RFI Reflector (RFI@contesting.com) since 1999.  K3LR serves on the WRTC2026 Advisory Board. Tim serves on the board of directors of the World Wide Radio Operators Foundation (WWROF) as Chairman and is President Emeritus of the Radio Club of America (RCA).  Tim is multiyear President of the Mercer County Amateur Radio Club (W3LIF/W3JTV). K3LR is President of the North Coast Contesters.

Tim serves on the electrical engineering advisory board for Grove City College. He was elected to the CQ Contest Hall of Fame in 2006.  K3LR was honored with the prestigious Barry Goldwater Amateur Radio service award by the RCA in 2010. Tim was honored in 2016 with the YASME Excellence award.  

K3LR was also honored as Hamvention Amateur of the Year in 2015 by the Dayton Amateur Radio Association. Tim is the Chief Executive Officer of DX Engineering. He is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University.

“Introduction to Impedance, SWR and Transmission Lines” at 2025 HamX

simple standing waveJoin Greg Algieri, WA1JXR, for an introduction to what complex Impedance is, how to measure it, and how Impedance is related to SWR. Greg will explain how these concepts apply to transmission lines, and how the waves and power travel from your transceiver to your antenna. 

WA1JXR began his Amateur Radio journey by asking his Dad for a Blue ‘Gillette Razor Blade’ to make his first diode receiver, which lead him to get his Amateur Radio license, higher electronics education, and an entire career with Raytheon, where he worked in radio and antenna design. Greg is active in the Amateur Radio community as a teacher for new and existing hams, restoring vintage radios, and getting on-the-air. He’s been a member of NEQRP since its beginnings, a teacher for Long Island CW Club, and is an ARRL WMA Assistant Section Manager and Technical Coordinator. 

HamSCI at 2025 HamX!

HamSCI imageBe sure to visit the HamSCI booth at the 2025 Northeast HamXposition and find out how the organization is helping to answer questions like: 

  • How does the ionosphere respond to inputs from space and from the neutral atmosphere?
  • How does the ionosphere couple with the neutral atmosphere and with space?
  • What are the sources of medium and large scale traveling ionospheric disturbances?
  • What are the causes of Sporadic E?

HamSCI, the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation, is a platform for the publicity and promotion of projects to advance scientific research and understanding through amateur radio activities.

Also, be sure to catch Dr. Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF, our Saturday Grand Banquet speaker. Nathaniel will discuss the 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!

W1 QSL Bureau at 2025 HamX

W1QSL bureau bannerVisit the W1 QSL Bureau booth in the vendor area and learn how the QSL Bureau works.  If you already have an account, you can check your status and add funds if needed.  You can open a new account if you do not already have one. 

We will be collecting Outgoing QSL Bureau cards to save you mailing them to the League.  Please follow the instructions on the ARRL web to prepare and fund your outgoing card package. 

At our booth we will also be checking cards for the ARRL DXCC and other ARRL awards.

Program Chair Update

Program Chair Skip Youngberg, K1NKR, writes:

The schedule is up and running.

As always, HamXposition, the New England Division ARRL Convention, continues to provide an exciting gathering with vendors and an ample supply of thoughts and ideas—also known as workshops, forums, and talks.

The schedule is now posted here on the HamXposition website at https://registration.hamxposition.org/Schedule/. It’s called “preliminary,” because we may add a few more reprise talks Friday and Sunday. The schedule will be off to the printer soon.

Here are the highlights:

  • There’s a comedy kick-off on Thursday evening.
  • There are five workshops, plus our mini Contest University and a club track on Friday. Plus, at least three fresh talks (which may be reprised later in the weekend) to attend if you’re not out at the flea market.
  • Sixty-five talks, on Saturday, some of which will be reprised on Sunday if you miss them. Six talks, plus some reprises on Sunday. Saturday also includes Tech-in-a-Day and two sessions of license exams (with one more session on Sunday)
  • A total of no less than 106 hours of talks are available over the whole weekend!
  • All that, plus two banquets, gatherings of interest groups like contesting, youth activities, QRP, QCWA, and ARRL Sections. There will also be after-hours socializing.
  • And prizes, prizes, prizes.

Providence Radio Association To Sponsor 2025 HamXposition GOTA Station W1XPO

The Providence Radio Association, Inc. (PRA) is proud to sponsor and staff the “Get On The Air” station at this year’s Northeast HamXposition and ARRL New England Convention. The station will be open at various times through the convention for all to operate and will utilize the FEMARA club call sign W1XPO (“hamXPOsition”). Mentors from the PRA will be on hand to assist in operating and to encourage new amateurs to Get on the Air. 

A few PRA members who manned the 1956 and 1958 New England Convention station will be present. “The equipment has changed in 68 years. We will not be using the E.F. Johnson Viking II transmitter and Hammarlund HQ-140-XA, but the thrill and excitement of Amateur Radio will be the same,” writes PRA President “Tess” Tessitore, K1DT. 

 

A recent W1A Convention operation from 2018.
A recent W1A Convention operation from 2018

 

W1OP, the official station of the 1956 ARRL New England Convention, Cranston, RI

 

 

 

 

“The First Fifteen Minutes” at 2025 HamX

The First Fifteen Minutes SlideJoin Douglas Sharafanowich, WA1SFH, for this fast paced, interactive session designed to provide a humorous insight as to what you can expect as a Net Control Station (NCS) during a fictional local Emergency/Disaster situation. This session is an excerpt of the full “Net Control Station (NCS) Operator Training Workshop” (3 hours). IF ABLE: Please read “The First 15 Minutes” presentation.

You can find it at https://tinyurl.com/yc5erdcm. Write down your observations and bring them with you. We will be focusing on: The Good, The Bad, and THE UGLY. 

“Thermal Imaging for the Radio Amateur” at 2025 Northeast HamXposition

Thermal image of a PCBThe use of thermal imaging for target detection and temperature measurement dates back to the early 1900’s. Currently the technology is affordable as the cameras are small, handheld and readily available.

Don’t miss “Thermal Imaging for the Radio Amateur” by Ronald Lucier, W1AAE, who will highlight the use of this technology as it applies to amateur radio: identifying and measuring hot spots on circuit boards, power supplies, connections and terminations. Additional subject matter regarding high power broadcast towers will be presented as will many practical applications. 

Ronald Lucier is a Mechanical Engineer with 40 plus years of experience in Thermal Imaging and the author of dozens of papers. He is currently the Chairman of ISO TC108/SC5/WG-11, “ Infrared Thermography”. He is recently retired from FLIR Systems having conducted over 1000 training courses. Ron was first licensed in 1972 as WN1PPX and currently is licensed as W1AAE.