[VHFcontesting] Southeastern VHF Society Conference, April 25th and 26th, Atlanta, Georgia

[Jim Worsham]

Hello everyone.  Just another reminder that the Southeastern VHF Society Conference will be held this year on April 25th and 26th.  The conference will be held Northeast of Atlanta, Georgia at the Hilton Atlanta Northeast, 5993 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Norcross, Georgia, 30092-3416.  The room rate is $89 plus tax per night and the deadline for reserving a room is this week on April 3rd.  To reserve a room call 800-445-8667 or use this link http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/A/ATLHPHF-SVHF-20140424/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG.  The registration form for the conference is available at http://svhfs.org/2014_SVHFS_registration3.pdf.  Please get your hotel room reservation and conference registration in as soon as possible.

There will be a luncheon with speaker on Friday to kick the conference off and a banquet with speaker on Saturday evening to close the conference.  The luncheon speaker will be Ray Rector, WA4NJP.  Ray is one of the most skilled aluminum gardeners known. Sprouting from his yard are numerous towers, arrays, and dishes up to 36 feet. He cultivates the garden using his skills as a mechanical and electrical designer. Skilled at welding and envisioning the construction of large antennas, Ray has kept many square feet of aluminum pointed at the Moon for decades. On EME on 6 meters thru 1296, Ray has more bands on EME than anyone we know.  A prolific builder of amplifiers, one of his favorite sayings is "Real tubes have handles" and "More Goo" meaning crank it up.  It will be an entertaining presentation to get things started for sure!  The banquet speaker will be Doug Rehman, Sr, K4AC, of Mount Dora, Florida, ( EL98eu ).  Doug is the ARRL Southeastern Division Director.  Doug is on HF thru UHF, including weak signal on 144, 220, 430, and 1296 MHz and is in the process of adding all bands thru 10 GHz.  I am sure he will be able to give us an update on frequency defense, VHF contest rules and anything else ARRL related.

There will also be a flea market, auction, door prizes, vendor exhibits, noise figure testing, antenna range testing and an excellent program of presentations both days.  A schedule can be found here http://www.svhfs.org/8-SCHED-2014a.pdf.  For further information please check this link http://svhfs.org/conference.html regularly.  Thanks and hope to see you at the conference.
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