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 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. Sprou
ting 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, contest rules
and anything else ARRL related. There will also be n
oise figure testing, antenna 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.
>
> 73
> Jim, W4KXY
> Conference Facilities Chair
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