[HCARC] Central States VHF Conference Coming up in Austin

[Bill Tynan]

All in HCARC who have any interest in VHF and above, this is a great opportunity

 

Hope to see some of you there.

 

73,

 

Bill Tynan, W3XO

 

From: Stephen Hicks, N5AC <n5ac at n5ac.com>



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 a 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 Slicon 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
<http://www.csvhfs.org/2014conference/2014Registration.html <http://www.csvhfs.org/2014conference/2014Registration.html%3e*> >*
 
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​