Hello everyone. 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. The deadline for reserving a hotel room has been extended to April
14th. 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.
73
Jim, W4KXY
Conference Facilities Chair
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