[VHFcontesting] Central States VHF Conference Call for Papers

[James Lommen]

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 The Central States VHF Society, Inc. is soliciting papers, presentations, and poster displays for the 51st Annual CSVHFS Conference.  This year’s conference is being held in Albuquerque, New Mexico on 27–30 July, 2017.  Papers, presentations, and posters on all weak-signal VHF and above amateur radio topics are requested. You do not need to attend the conference, nor present your paper, to have it published in the Proceedings. Posters will be displayed during the two days of the Conference.

 
|  Antennas including Modeling, Design, Arrays, and Control;

  |  |  Test Equipment including Homebrew, Commercial, and Measurement Techniques & Tips

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|  Construction of equipment such as Transmitters, Receivers, and Transverters

  |  |  Operating including Contesting, Roving, and DXpeditions

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|  RF power amps including Single and Multi-band Vacuum Tube, Solid-state, and TWTAs

  |  |  Propagation including Ducting, Sporadic E, Tropospheric, Meteor Scatter, etc.

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|  Pre-amplifiers (low noise)

  |  |  Digital Modes WSJT, JT65, etc.

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|  Regulatory topics

  |  |  Moon Bounce

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|  Software-defined Radio (SDR)

  |  |  Digital Signal Processing (DSP)

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Non-weak signal topics such as FM, repeaters,packet radio, etc., are generally not considered acceptable. However, there arealways exceptions. Please contact the point of contact below if you have anyquestions about the suitability of a particular topic.

Strong editorial preference will begiven to those papers that are written and formatted specifically forpublication, rather than as a visual presentation aid.

Format:

There are optional templatesavailable to help you format your paper into one or two column formats. 

Deadline for submissions:

For inclusion in the Proceedings: Monday, 12 June 2017
For Presentations to be delivered at the Conference: Friday, 30 June 2017
For Posters, please provide notification by: Friday, 30 June 2017.  Bringyour completed poster with you for setup at the Conference on 27 July.

Point of Contact:

Ed JamesKA8JMW (email: ka8jmw at arrl.net)

USPS Mail:

Ed James
10 Trade Ct.
Edgewood, NM 87105

Submissions:

   
   - Electronic formats (Word, PowerPoint, PDF)   


   - Via email   


   - Upload to a web site or “cloud” server for subsequent downloading   


   - Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.   


   - On physical media (CD/DVD, USB stick/thumb drive)   


 Jim KC7QYNM QP 8 April 2017