[NLRS] Rochester (NY) Microwave Gathering

[Bill Smith via NLRS]

Fellow Microwavers and Microwave EME'ers-
Microwave Update  2014 is just over 5 weeks away!  The list of registered
attendees is  growing daily- check the website to see the list so far and to
see who of  your friends will be here.  If you are planning on coming to  
the
conference and haven't registered yet, what's keeping you?

If  you've registered for the conference but haven't yet reserved a room at
the  hotel (the Rochester Marriott Airport), please think about doing that
sooner  rather than later.  The block of rooms at the MUD special price  of
$109/night will go away October 3.  It's likely that rooms will still  be
available, but at a higher price.  The link and phone number  for
reservations at the hotel is on the website: http://www.microwaveupdate.org 
 

There will be the usual Saturday night banquet and it should be a lot  of
fun- Frank and I are working with the hotel to have some excellent  choices
for dinner, we'll have an interesting keynote speaker, and the pile  of door
prizes is growing daily!  By the way- if you want to donate  something as a
door prize, it would be greatly appreciated and you'll get  special
recognition for your donation.

The list of presenters (so far)  is also up on the website.  There will be
many interesting talks and a  virtual tour of the University of Rochester
Laser Lab for Energitics (where  some extremely high tech work is taking
place).  Thursday arrivers can  join us for a tour of the Antique Wireless
Association museum in Bloomfield,  NY on Thursday afternoon between 1 and
5pm.  In addition to their  standard displays of early radio, TV, and
electronic gear, the AWA has  promised us a show geared towards our part of
the spectrum- the microwaves,  with displays of early microwave gear, tubes,
etc.  It should be a lot  of fun!  The AWA recently moved into a completely
new location and they  have lots of floor space and all new displays!

Keysight Technologies (the  old H-P/Agilent) will be at the conference.  
They
will be doing two  presentations, each of which should be quite educational.
In addition, they  will be bringing their latest microwave instrumentation 
to
measure Noise  Figures on Friday (and if we can talk them into it, Saturday)
night.  We  will be able to measure noise figures to 78GHz at the 
conference!

That's  it for now- all of us in the Rochester VHF Group are looking forward
to  seeing all of you at this year's MUD conference!  If you have  any
questions, please feel free to contact us and we'll do our best to take  
care
of you.

73
Dave K2DH
Frank K2OS
MUD2014  Co-Chairmen