[VHFcontesting] There's still time to register for CSVHFS 2014, but if you can't come ...

[Jim Froemke]

There is still time to register for the Central States VHF Conference in Austin, Texas.  The conference is only two weeks away (7/24-27) and you know what you'd really like to do is get out of town and have a nice visit with all your Central States friends down in Texas.  Just imagine how fun it would be to sit back on the Lone Star Riverboat, grab a beer or a margarita (yes, K5AND will be bringing multiple gallons of margaritas) and have a nice chat about how awful HF propagation will be as we exit the sunspot cycle and how VHF propagation will not suffer the same fate!  We've arranged over one million bats to share in your conversation and wish us well with propagation conditions.  They will also eat up all the insects so you can have an insect-free boat trip!

 

Your friends will miss you if you don't come, but you'll also be missing out on some great speakers -- Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR, President and CEO of FlexRadio Systems will be talking at the Friday luncheon about noise.  Over the last several years designing he has performed a great deal of research into noise on the bands, noise in radio systems, and how best to measure radio performance to more closely understand how radio designs respond to noise.  You will hear interesting and surprising facts about noise along with some true, but very counter-intuitive ways that radio settings can adversely affect noise.

 

Jim Klitzing, W6PQL, will be flying in from the Bay Area in California to share his insights into electronic design and high power amplifiers.  Jim has been supplying the amateur world with high power amplifier boards and filters and excellent advice on building a VHF and microwave stations.  Jim will be talking about RF components and important information that both designers and operators should know.

 

Our banquet speaker is Jimmy Treybig, W6JKV.  Jimmy founded and was the CEO of Tandem Computers, a Silicon Valley manufacturer of fault tolerant computers. Tandem delivered its first product in 1975, went public in 1977, was ranked by Inc Magazine as the fastest growing public company in 1980, and was on the Fortune 500 list of largest companies in 1984. Jimmy retired in 1996 when Tandem was a $2.3 Billion company with 8000 people worldwide. Today Tandem is part of HP.  Jimmy has done over SEVENTY six and two-meter DXpeditions to over 50 countries.  Jimmy will be sharing his perspectives on family and DXpeditions.

 

Of course we have a whole cadre of technical speakers for the conference including: K0MHC, W0ZQ, N6NB, WA5VJB, K5TRA, K4SME, W4ZST, N5YC, K6MIO, K5AND and W6PQL.

 

So c'mon and register and come down to Texas and have some fun with us -- 

 

http://www.csvhfs.org/2014conference/2014Registration.html

 

We'll have a good time even if you don't come, but it would be better if you were here with us!

 

We know sometimes life gets in the way and maybe you can't make it this year...  We'll miss you, but you can still get a copy of the proceedings to read all the excellent papers our authors have written for you.  We have the proceedings in hand and would be glad to mail you a copy -- to get yours, just use the registration link above, but deselect conference registration and instead select "Extra Proceedings (deliver to home)."  We'll drop your copy right in the mail!

 

73, Steve Hicks​ ​, N5AC

2014 CSVHFS President​

 

Be sure to join us at the 48th Annual CSVHF Conference on July 24-27 in Austin, TX. Visit  <http://www.csvhfs.org> www.csvhfs.org for more information.