Pacificon 2010 - Ham Radio Convention

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PACIFICON 2010 *** October 15-17 *** San Ramon Marriott Hotel *** San Ramon, California

 

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Friday Forums - October 15, 2010

 

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FRIDAY

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8:00 am

8 am
to 5 pm

Antenna
Seminar

hosted by
Paul Howes
WA6GYY

 

 

 

9:00 am

10:00 am

11:00 am

12 noon

 

 

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1:00 pm

8 am
to 5 pm

Antenna
Seminar

hosted by
Paul Howes
WA6GYY

 

 

 

1 pm
to 4 pm

Law
Seminar
Bart Lee K6VK
MCLE Accredited

2:00 pm

3:00 pm

4:00 pm

 

 

7:00 pm
to
9:00 pm

 

Public Meeting for
Mt Diablo Amateur
Radio Club Meeting

 

 

Friday Notes:

  1. Section Manager's Meeting (closed) will take place in a reserved conference room from 1 -5 pm. Host: Jim Latham AF6AQ
  2. The  HFpack/NORCAL QRP Groups will meet in the Marriott Hotel Lobby at 6 pm and then proceed to dinner at a restaurant to be announced.

 

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Saturday Forums - October 16, 2010

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Saturday

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8:00 am

HF
Propagation
Prediction
Mike Staal
K6MYC

8 am
to 12 pm &
1 to 4 pm

One Day
Tech Class
Rich Harrington
NN6FW

(exam at 4 pm)

8 am
to 12 pm

Introduction to
Contesting
Northern California
Contest Club

Station Automation
Jack Morgan KF6T

Integrating
ARES into CERT
During Disaster
Operations
Herbert Cole
AI6AT

Interfacing
Computers
Jim Brown K9YC

Introduction
to Amateur
Radio
Andria Hartlege
KG4IUM

9:00 am

Collins
S-Line
James Stitzinger
WA3CEX

HFpack
Beginners' Forum -

"HFpack 101"
Glenn Thomas WB6W

Disaster Response -
1906 to Present
Bart Lee K6VK

Antenna
Launchers
Alan Biocca
WB6ZQZ

I Have My
License
Now What?
Mark Spenser
WA8SME

10:00 am

D-STAR
Forums
George
Zarfilopolous
 KJ6VU

High Performance
Transceiver Tools
for DXing
and Contesting
Eric Schwartz WA6HHQ 		Disasters -
Best Practices
Bart Lee K6VK
Ron Lopez KG6ILG

Work Satellites
With an HT
Clint Bradford  K6LCS

United Nations
Ham Radio
Station:
4U1UN
Diana Eng KC2UH

11:00 am

Kit Building
Wayne  Burdick N6KR

HF Propagation
Using  VOAAREA
"The Big  Picture"
Dean Straw N6BV

PowerPole
John Kalotai N1OLO

Getting Started
with Micro
Controller
Programs
Andria Hartlege
KG4IUM

12 noon

Iraq DXpedition
YI9PSE
Paul Ewig N6PSE

Lunch Break - Dixieland Band in Courtyard

Open
Student Lounge
Andria Hartlege
KG4IUM

 

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1:00 pm

Beale Air
Force Base
Radar and
70 cm
Amateur
Radio

- Air Force
Mission Briefing
Lt.Coln Schroff
CO Beale Radar
- FCC Regulation
of 70 cm
Laura L. Smith esq.
Special Counsel
- ARRL
Government
Affairs
Dan Henderson  N1ND
- Open Forum Discussion
Moderator:
Dan Henderson  N1ND

8 am
to 12 pm &
1 to 4 pm

One Day
Tech Class
Rich Harrington
NN6FW

(exam at 4 pm)

Contest
Antennas
Jack Morgan KF6T

HFpack Forum
Tenth Anniversary
Ken Chong WB6MLC

- Elecraft
Eric Swartz WA6HHQ

PIC Microcontroller -
Designing Ham
Radio Projects
George Zarfiropoulos KJ6VU

PowerPole
John Kalotai
N1OLO

Radio
Electronics
for High
School
Students
Andria Hartlege
KG4IUM

2:00 pm

Tour of
Yaesu Radio
George Varvitsiotes K6SV

Small Solar
Panel Systems
Sam Vigil WA6NGH

Moon Bounce
Pioneer
Mike Staal
K6YMC

VP5
DXpedition

3:00 pm

HF Airmail from
Burma War Zone
Grady  Williams K6IXA

Designing a Linking
Control System for
the Cactus Inertie
George Zarfilopolous
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MARS Update
(Military Amateur
Radio Service -
Air Force, Army,
Navy-Marines)
Dennis McCord
AC6WP AFA6AY

Moon Bounce
for the
Masses
Eric Norris
WD6DBM

Fox Hunt!
Andria Hartlege
KG4IUM

4:00 pm

NARCC
Sue Alred K6SZQ

160 Meters
Jim Peterson K6EI

Mechanical RTTY
George Hutchison W7TTY

RACES
Per Bashers
KI6JJS

Satellites
Diana Eng KC2UH

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Student
Conference
Andria Hartlege
KG4IUM

7:45 pm
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HFpack/QRP
Zombie Night
Ken Chong WB6MLC


In-Room
QRP QSO Contest
QRP Show & Tell
Eyeball Meet & Greet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday Notes:

  1. Reception for Kay Craige, N3KN, ARRL President - 6 pm at the Lounge
  2. The Collins Van will be operating outside in the Courtyard - James Stitzinger WA3CEX
  3. Gordon West's  Com Van will be operating from the Parking Lot
  4. ATV Operation - Hallway Booth
  5. Robotics for High School Students - Hallway Booth - Mark Spenser WA8SME
  6. The Pacific Division Staff Conference (closed) will take place in a conference room from 1 - 5 pm - Bob Vallio W6RGG, Pacific Division Director
  7. Mechanical RTTY Operation - Hallway Booth - George Hutchison W7TTY
  8. The Communications Support Vehicle from the San Ramon Fir Department will be open to the public in the Parking Lot
  9. Parachute Jump Live on ATV. John Gefaell K6OJ

 

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Sunday Forums - October 17, 2010

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Sunday

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8:00 am

D-STAR
Interface for
Repeaters
Jim Moen K6J

Beginner's Course
and Workshop
Paul Bailey-Gates  KA6GE
David Haycock KI6AWR

ARRL Amatuer Radio
Public Relations:
New Campaigns
and Techniques
Don Carlson KQ6FM

ATV Forum
Mike Saculla
K6MDS

 

 

9:00 am

Amateur Satellite
Communication
Ground Up Without
Spending Money
Neil Hays W6FOG

ARRL Teacher's
Institute
Mark Spenser WA8SME

Two Meter SSB DX
With Hawaii
Via Tropo
Gordon West WB6NOA

Rotary
Spark Gap
Jim Jolly W6RWI

10:00 am

ARRL Update
Jim Tiemstra K6JAT

Remote HF Operations
Digital Voice Access
Richard Huisman N6DQ

JT65 -
Enhance Weak Signal HF
Dave Witkowski  W6DTW

Antennas,
Smith Charts
and
Impedance Matching
Steve Stearns
K6OIK

11:00 am

ARRL President
Kay Craige N3K
ARRL President

 

 

 

 

12 noon

Ham Radio
Must Die!
Dave Witkowski W6DT

 

 

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1:00 pm

 

Beginner's Course
and Workshop
Paul Bailey-Gates  KA6GEM
David Haycock KI6AWR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
1:30 pm

1:30 pm to 2:30 pm

ARRL
Pacific Division
Forum
Bob Vallio W6RGG
Pacific Division Director

2:30 pm

2:30 pm to 3:00pm

Scholarship
Awards
Dale McIntire AD6HD

Grand Prize,
Other Prizes
and Raffel
Doug Hinckley KI6VVV
Rebecca Hinckley KI6VVT

Sunday Notes:

  1. East Bay ARES Leadership Meeting (closed) will take place in a reserved conference room at 9 am. Host: Jim Latham AF6AQ

 

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John Ronan, K3ZJJ, the chairperson of the
Pacificon 2010 Forums Committee, can be reached at: forums@pacificon.org.

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