Friday, October 10 - Sunday, October 12, 2025
San Ramon Marriott
2600 Bishop Drive
San Ramon, CA 94583
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Highlights
Pacificon℠ gives you three great days of activities for one low cost:
* A full slate of outstanding Forum presentations about a wide range of amateur radio topics
* An all-day Antenna Seminar (additional fee required)
* Gordon West, WB6NOA: Author, educator, speaker and irrepressible promoter of all things ham radio
* Large Vendor and Nonprofit expo filled with exciting products and exhibits
* Events including an outdoor Swap Meet hosted by livermoreark.org.
* QRP Low Power Activities
* Youth Activities including Scouting
* Parachute Mobile contacts
* Electronics kit building and soldering instruction
* A One Day License Prep Class to prepare you to pass the amateur radio Technician license examination and get your first amateur radio license
* Two days of License Testing
* A Special Events Station W1AW/6 where you can operate and contact other hams worldwide, even if you don't have a license, hosted by paara.org.
* Our wonderful Banquet & Keynote Speaker (additional fee required)
* Our annual Wouff Hong Initiation ceremony
* A chance to hear about and discuss important national amateur radio issues with top ARRL leaders
* A chance to win radios and other great prizes throughout the convention
* M17 digital voice mode (patent free) and MMDVM talk and booths. M17 is supported by our repeater W6CX.
* First annual conference held in San Francisco in 1920.
And perhaps the best part - a chance to interact and share information with lots of other amateur radio enthusiasts to further (or begin) your own knowledge and to advance the hobby.
Pacificon℠ Announcements
04/23/2025
New Pacificon One-Page Flyer
03/31/2025
Pacificon registrations are open
02/06/2025
We have a new resistor color (orange!), a new logo and are starting to prepare 2025 registration. Our next monthly organizing committee zoom is coming up.
Pacificon 2025 T-Shirts will be available!
Pocket and Long Sleeve will be available (images below are 2024 shirts)
Highlights from 2024
QRP returned to Pacificon. Welcome back!
CS 131 was deployed from Pacificon Oct 20 to the Oakland hills Keller Fire evacuation of 500 residents
Josh Nass KI6NAZ & HRCC along with Gordo, HamNation and other media people provided some great visibility for Pacificon℠. If we didn't link to your media post yet let us know and we'll add it to our media page. Any help finding and linking to Pacificon posts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Our first Pacificon fire alarm took place and we all evacuated. Thankfully it was a false alarm and the all clear was given a few minutes later!
Over $9,000 of prizes were awarded
Over 1,200 participants
Highlights from 2023
Pacificon awarded radios to the youngest ham and twin 11 year old girls from Napa that passed their Technician exam on Saturday morning, the second and third youngest. With permission, here's their reaction to their exam results with their proud father Nik W6QY.
Over $11,000 in prizes were awarded
Over 1,100 participants attended.
Elecraft released the KH1 radio and we gave one away as a grand prize to an attendee. Wayne Burdick N6KR interview by KK6USY and Sat video session.
PACIFICON℠ has great speakers for the Antenna Seminar on Friday and the Forums on Saturday and Sunday. If you would like to be considered as a backup speaker this year or for next year, please go to our Speaker Proposals page to complete the speaker application.
and THANK You!
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Volunteers make all the difference at Pacificon℠.
We still need help to make Pacificon the best conference possible. Even just a couple of hours will be appreciated.
Go to our Volunteers registration page to see the areas of most need.
Pacificon℠ Posts, Videos and Media Coverage
The Many Stories of PacificonSM 2024 In Photo
The Pacificon 2024 photo album is available for viewing at the link below. These photos were taken during the convention which took place October 18, 19 and 20, 2024. The primary Pacificon photographers were Pete Harris, KE6ZIW, and Barry Isseks, K6ZA. We recommend full screen viewing on a computer if possible.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/11636522@N06/albums/72177720321489770
Pacificon 2025 is a week early, surprise!
Pacificon 2026 is confirmed for our regular third Saturday weekend: Friday, Oct 16, Saturday, Oct 17 and Sunday Oct 18 2026.
NOTICE: Photographers and/or videographers may be on site to document the Pacificon℠ Conference events and activities. Photos and videos are the sole property of the Mt. Diablo Amateur Radio Club. By registering for and/or attending Pacificon℠ events, attendees understand that Pacificon℠/MDARC may use their likenesses for future promotional purposes. If you do not wish to be photographed, please notify the photographer and/or videographer on site.
Most of the images on this web site are provided by MDARC's photographers extraordinaire, Pete Harris, KE6ZIW, pictured at left, and Barry Isseks, K6ZA pictured at right.
Thank you, Pete! Thank you, Barry!
Pacificon℠ 2025
is the 32nd ARRL Pacific Division
Annual Conference
presented by the current Organizing Committee &
Mount Diablo Amateur Radio Club.
The Pacific Division Conference was first held in 1920.
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Note: we have no affiliation with pacificon dot com
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