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Friday

Room 1

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Room 3

Room 4

9:15 AM - 10:35 AM
TAPR - Topics in Digital Radio
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9:15 AM - 10:10 AM
Linux and Ham Radio Software
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9:15 AM - 9:50 AM
ARES, SAFECOM, and Building Relationships
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9:15 AM - 10:35 AM
Digital Contest Forum
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10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Elecraft K4D Users Group
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10:20 AM - 11:35 AM
Xenia and Beyond - A History of Violent Tornadoes in Ohio and a Look Ahead at the Future of Tornado
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10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Instructor Academy with Gordon West
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10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
How to Grow an Amateur Radio Club from Nearly Dead to Amazing!
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12:25 PM - 1:50 PM
Fine Tuning Your SOTA Experience
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11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
BalloonSat - Taking Amateur Radio to New Heights
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11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Youth Outreach Through Amateur Radio STEM Education
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11:55 AM - 12:45 PM
Kit Building Techniques for Success
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2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Antenna Forum
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1:25 PM - 2:30 PM
Remote HF Station Ideas and Buiding Blocks or New Hams & Remote Operating
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12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
Enhancing Transmitter Performance: The ARRL Clean Signal Initiative
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12:55 PM - 1:55 PM
Instructor’s Forum
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Law and Amateur Radio
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2:40 PM - 3:45 PM
New Adventures using TCP/IP on 44Net (AMPRnet) and an ARDC Update
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1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
How to Control Your Ham Shack with A Node-RED Dashboard
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2:05 PM - 3:30 PM
Women Building Community Through Amateur Radio
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3:55 PM - 5:00 PM
HamSCI: The Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation
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2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Ground is a Myth!
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3:40 PM - 5:00 PM
Foxhunting/ Transmitter Hunting
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3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Gaming the Amateur Radio Modes
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Five Steps to a Successful POTA Activation
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Saturday

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9:15 AM - 10:20 AM
Ham Nation and Friends
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9:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Youth Forum
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9:15 AM - 10:50 AM
Good Operators and Interference
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9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Getting Started with FreeDV Digital Voice and Web GUI Construction Set for Every Ham
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10:30 AM - 11:40 AM
Parks on the Air
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12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
ARISS: Celebrating 40 Years of Amateur Radio on Human Spaceflight Missions
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
ARRL Membership Forum
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10:25 AM - 11:35 AM
Fast Scan ATV
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11:50 AM - 1:50 PM
DX Forum
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1:20 PM - 2:50 PM
AMSAT
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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
ARRL Youth Rally Activities
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11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
VHF/UHF/Microwave Forum
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2:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Contesting
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3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
System Fusion
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ARRL Collegiate Amateur Radio Program (CARP)
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12:55 PM - 1:55 PM
Integrating the Internet with Amateur Radio
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Software Defined Radio
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2:05 PM - 3:30 PM
Arduino - Building Projects with Microcontrollers
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3:40 PM - 5:00 PM
A Fun and New Way to Learn Morse Code
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Sunday

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Room 4

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
The Fast Track to Getting Started in HF
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9:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Lightning, Grounding and Radio Frequency Interference (RFI)
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9:15 AM - 9:50 AM
Tips for Successful Radio Clubs
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9:15 AM - 10:05 AM
Zero Configuration Radio - Why are we still programming radios?
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10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Power, Current, Voltage, and Resistance (PIER) Review Method of Circuit Analysis
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11:10 AM - 12:00 PM
The DX Marathon Program
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10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
ARRL Contest Program Update
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10:15 AM - 11:05 AM
Using your HT and netbook for radio messaging and e-mail
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Beyond Repeaters: See How Far Your Tech License Will Take You
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11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
DMR - How The Packets Get Your Voice From Here To There!
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Full Details for Friday – Saturday – Sunday

updated 4/5/24

 Friday details  Saturday details  Sunday details

Each year Hamvention hosts dozens of forums covering a variety of topics ranging from antenna design to software-defined radio and everything in between.  This year will be no exception as attendees will be able to choose from over two dozen forums scheduled throughout the event.

Chris Rismiller

N8PEM

Chair, Forums

Pat Kincer

K8PAT

Assistant Chair, Forums

For information regarding Hamvention Forums, contact the committee at: forums@hamvention.org