I also attended the Mid-Atlantic conference near Philadelphia in late September.  Learned a lot of good stuff there too.  I have the proceedings on CD.  I don't know if they are going to post it or not yet.  Look on the conference website for the TOC and if you find something interesting, I can get it off the CD for you.  A couple of the articles are on the packratvhf.com page along with the latest 'CheeseBits' Newsletter with comments and pix from the conference.  One article available there that you may like is titled 'Some of my favorite test gear comes from China'  where he reviews some very affordable equipment.

Also part of the conference was a Friday afternoon work session on N1MM given by W3SZ Roger Rehr and K3TUF Phil Theiss.  Phil was one of the major perpetrators of the SuperConference in 2016 and a big-time VHF contester.  I learned a lot from the session.  We each had brought our own computers with the latest version of N1MM.   There were probably 20 in the session.   They showed us how much of it worked and some tips and tricks. 

Roger has made pdf's of the presentation slides and made them available on his web site.  http://w3sz.x10.mx/PackRats.html
Look to the bottom of the page.  There are complete pdf's and also shorter 'cookbook' versions available.  The third session pdf is on setting up for vhf contesting.  Check them out and I'm sure you will also find something useful. 

For those of us interested in station automation, Roger has put together much info from a symposium started at the 2017 Mid-Atlantic Conference and it's all just above the N1MM stuff on his web page, entitled:  Station Automation Symposium from 2017 Mid-Atlantic VHF Conference.
They have done a lot of work on this and made it available.

73, Bob