The Southeastern VHF Society is seeking papers and presentations on both the technical and operational aspects of VHF, UHF, and microwave weak signal amateur radio for its 2026 Conference. The deadline for submission is March 2, 2026. Some suggested areas of interest are transmitters, receivers, transverters, beacons, RF power amplifiers, RF low noise preamplifiers, antennas, construction projects, test equipment and station accessories, station design and construction, contesting, roving, DXpeditions, EME, propagation, digital modes, Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Software Defined Radio (SDR), amateur satellites, and amateur television.
In general papers and presentations on non-weak signal related topics such as FM repeaters and packet will not be accepted, but exceptions may be made if the topic is related to weak signal. For example, a paper or presentation on the use of FM simplex in contests or on the use of APRS to track rovers during contests would be considered.
All submissions for publication in the proceedings should be emailed to
SVHFS@downeastmicrowave.com in Microsoft Word (.doc) format. No PowerPoint files
will be accepted for use in the proceedings. Submissions for presentation at the conference should be in Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt) format and can be delivered at the conference on a USB memory stick. Formatting information can be found at
https://svhfs.org.
While papers will not be copy-edited, SVHFS does attempt to make all papers somewhat uniform. Please indicate when you submit your paper or presentation if you plan to attend the conference and present your paper in person or if you are submitting solely for publication. Papers and presentations are being handled by Don Woodward, KD4APP, and should be sent to
SVHFS@downeastmicrowave.com. Don can be contacted at
dbwoodw@w-ent.com if you have any questions.