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Attachment: 2017 Stone Mountain Hamfest Flyer for your club newsletter.

This year’s 49^th Annual 2017 Stone Mountain Hamfest theme focus being Emergency Communication and Preparedness with a very heavy emphasis on ARES, CERT, and RACES groups as well as the radio communications with hospitals and other emergency support partners, invite your group to join us at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds November 4^th and 5^th.

In the wake of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma’s devastation, I’m sure our list of forums will be of great interest to many of your friends and club members.

Topics of our forums are: Emergency Preparedness and Response, Emergency Communications, Digital Communications Methods and Practices, Hospital Emergency Operations, Packet, FLDigi, Winlink 2000/RMS Express, NVIS Antennas, What to bring to a disaster, just to name a few.

Some Of Our Featured Speakers Will Be:

· Michael Cory, KI1U, ARRL Emergency Preparedness Manager.

· Greg Sarratt, W4OZK, ARRL Director Southeastern Division.

· Frank Dean, K4SJR Section Emergency Coordinator, will talk give after action report on Hurricane Irma and Ga ARES participation.

· Bret Smith, W4HBS, Assistant Section Emergency Coordinator (ASEC) for Department of Human Resources/Public Health, Georgia Section ARES.

· Grace Lea, KM4TXT Solar Panels, Batteries and Emergency Power Options.

· James Lee, WX4TV What to bring to a Disaster, Go-Kits, Antenna Options, and Power. ARES/RACES and the NVIS Antenna,

· John Davis, WB4QDX, DSTAR and its use during Irma.

Also, the Go-Box Competition will be a great place to display your Go-Box or get ideas for building your own, please have your ARES members sign up and get more info at the below link. http://stonemountainhamfest.com/index.php/goboxcontestsignup/

Go Box winner will receive a $100.00 gift certificate from HRO.

This year we will have early bird drawing for two signal link soundcards. Get your tickets and be registered for the early bird drawing at http://stonemountainhamfest.com/index.php/ticket-booth/

Hamfest Info at http://stonemountainhamfest.com/

Mike Smith,

President Alford Memorial Radio Club

Hamfest Committee Chairman

KK4KHS@arrl.net