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ARRL Hudson Division Director Promotes Amateur Radio Parity Act Before
Senate Committee
ARRL Comments on Technological visory Council Spectrum Policy
Recommendations
ARRL to Offer Expanded Orlando HamCation® Presence February 9-11
The Doctor Will See You Now!
Nominations Sought for Philip J. McGan Memorial Silver Antenna Award
Kristen McIntyre, K6WX, Appointed ARRL Pacific Division Vice Director
Anticipated New Building Won't Be Ready for Hamvention 2018, but Flea
Market Could Expand
Work Progressing to Incorporate CQ Magazine's WAZ Award Program into
LoTW
Canadian Radio Amateur Finds Resurrected NASA Satellite
In Brief...
The K7RA Solar Update
Just Ahead in Radiosport
Upcoming ARRL Section, State, and Division Conventions
ARRL Hudson Division Director Promotes Amateur Radio Parity Act Before
Senate Committee
ARRL Hudson Division Director Mike Lisenco, N2YBB, testified on
January 25 before a session of the Senate Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation regarding Amateur Radio's readiness to
respond in an emergency. The session, "This is not a Drill: An
Examination of Emergency Alert Systems," was called in the wake of an
incoming missile warning erroneously released in Hawaii in January.
Lisenco said Amateur Radio played a role not only in responding to the
warning but in disseminating word that the missile alert had been
issued by mistake.
Lisenco said the Hawaii Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES)
activated on UHF and via a VHF inter-island repeater network, and
amateur stations monitored the alert and cancellation activity, which
came less than 1 day after RACES had completed an Amateur Radio
communication exercise at the State Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
In his written testimony, Lisenco recounted that the situation after
the missile warning in Hawaii was chaotic.
"The phone lines into the State EOC were soon overwhelmed and
congested, and the website was overwhelmed with public inquiries," he
said. Lisenco said that in such situations, Amateur Radio volunteers
are typically present at state or county EOCs and at the State Warning
Point, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency. He pointed out that the
cancellation of the false warning circulated on various information
outlets 13 minutes after the missile warning went out.
"That was picked up and relayed through the Amateur Radio networks,"
he told the Committee in written testimony. "The cell phone alert
system could not be used for the cancellation notice until prior FEMA
approval was obtained. Once that was obtained, the cancellation alert
went out to the cell phone network after 38 minutes from the initial
alert."
"Many people had received the warning first on their cell phones
through the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system, but a cancellation
on that same system was substantially delayed," Lisenco said. "The
result was that Amateur Radio networks disseminated validated
cancellation information long before the cellular networks were able
to do so."
Lisenco took the opportunity to address how private land-use
regulations can preclude Amateur Radio disaster response capabilities.
"There is no substitute for the ready availability of a residential
Amateur Radio station in daily operation from a licensee's residence,"
he said. "The licensee cannot be expected to have the ability to
communicate into or from a disaster site unless he or she has a
station with an effective outdoor antenna capable of operation on
multiple frequency bands at once, which is ready to be pressed into
service from the licensee's residence at a moment's notice."
Lisenco reminded the panel members that the Amateur Radio Parity Act
of 2017 is now pending before the Committee. "We are in desperate need
of this legislation, and without it, the volunteer emergency
communications services provided by Amateur Radio will be precluded.
We urge the Committee in the strongest terms to please approve and
send this legislation forward without delay," Lisenco said.
Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker, a cosponsor with Connecticut Senator
Richard Blumenthal, of the Amateur Radio Parity Act, attended the
hearing. Responding to a question from Wicker at the hearing, Lisenco
pointed out that an early US Coast Guard warning cancellation notice
was relayed to Amateur Radio networks and disseminated quickly, while
the State Warning Point waited to obtain FEMA authorization to rescind
the warning via cellular phones. As a result, Amateur Radio networks
were able to disseminate validated cancellation information long
before the cellular networks could. Wicker issued a statement noting
Lisenco's testimony and posted a video clip of his exchange with
Lisenco. Read more.
ARRL Comments on Technological visory Council Spectrum Policy
Recommendations
In comments to the FCC on a series of Technological visory Council
(TAC) spectrum management policy recommendations, ARRL said that while
some of the Council's recommendations are valid, it would be "highly
inappropriate" to generalize about applying them broadly in all radio
services. The comments, filed on January 31, were in response to a
December 1, 2017, Public Notice in ET Docket No. 17-340. ARRL took the
opportunity to strongly urge the FCC to reinstate a 2016 TAC noise
floor study, which, ARRL asserted, was apparently terminated before it
even got started.
"Indeed, it is difficult to imagine how the Commission can
now...suggest the adoption of specific spectrum management principles,
incorporating such concepts as receiver immunity, HCTs [harm claim
thresholds], and interference temperature determinations without
having...a firm grasp on ambient noise levels in basic RF environments
and geographical areas," the League told the FCC.
ARRL reiterated its encouragement for the FCC to incorporate receiver
performance specifications into US spectrum policy on a broader basis.
"ARRL accepts...that increased spectrum user density is the inevitable
result of new wireless services," the League said. "Given that this
intensification of the use of the radio spectrum will necessitate new
overlays of dissimilar radio services...in increasingly shared
spectrum, it is necessary to depart from the traditional regulatory
model that the Commission has utilized for spectrum allocations."
That model, ARRL said, has, almost without exception, placed limits
only on transmitters, while the inability of some receivers to reject
out-of-band signals "constrains new allocations in adjacent bands."
This calls for what ARRL called "a 'holistic' approach to transmitter
and receiver performance."
"Requiring better performance from receivers or RF-susceptible devices
is a valid, reasonable, and long overdue requirement," ARRL said, "but
the major goal of doing so should be to prevent instances of
interference, not solely to allow the overlay of otherwise
incompatible sharing partners in deployed spectrum to the detriment of
incumbents."
ARRL argued, however, that the Amateur Service should not be subject
to receiver immunity standards, because licensees employ a wide range
of propagation, emissions, bandwidths, power levels, receivers, and
antennas, making any receiver performance standards arbitrary, and
compromising the Service's experimental nature. They are also able to
differentiate between interference from nearby spurious or out-of-band
signals and that caused by receiver deficiencies.
"Receiver immunity is not an intra-service issue in the Amateur
Service," ARRL said. "The issue...is, rather, protection from spurious
and out-of-band emissions from other services."
ARRL said that while the TAC's allocation principles include
over-generalizations, the Council is "very much on the right track"
with such concepts as receiver immunity standards for certain radio
services and, especially, for consumer electronics "and the initiation
of necessary and urgent programs, such as interference-hunting teams,
to supplement the Commission's meager enforcement resources." ARRL
said it looks forward to working with the FCC in developing an
interference-tracking corps. ARRL also supported the creation of a
public database of past radio-related enforcement activities. What
little FCC enforcement is necessary in the Amateur Service must be
timely and visible, ARRL said.
But, ARRL returned to its assertion that a knowledge database
regarding ambient noise levels in certain environments must be in
place before adopting any next-generation spectrum management
techniques.
"No system of spectrum management incorporating [harm claim
thresholds] and receiver immunity levels can be accurately
implemented" without the noise study data, ARRL said. Read more.
ARRL to Offer Expanded Orlando HamCation® Presence February 9-11
ARRL will be represented in force and with an expanded presence at
Orlando HamCation on February 9-11. The event, which is also the 2018
ARRL Florida State Convention, takes place at the Central Florida
Fairgrounds and Expo Park. Team ARRL will include Headquarters staff
and volunteers. ARRL concessions at HamCation will support membership,
publication sales (ARRL store), the ARRL Southeastern Division, the
ARRL Collegiate Amateur Radio Initiative, and QSL card checking for
DXCC and other ARRL Awards. The League will offer special incentives
for visitors who join or renew ARRL membership at the booth.
Among the new books HamCation attendees can purchase are the 2018 ARRL
Handbook, ARRL's Hands-On Radio Experiments Volume 3, The ARRL
Repeater Directory® 2018 edition, ARRL's Best of The Doctor is In, and
such bestsellers as Grounding and Bonding for the Radio Amateur, by
Ward Silver, N0AX.
Expected to be on hand are ARRL Puerto Rico Section Manager Oscar
Resto, KP4RF, and US Virgin Islands Section Manager Fred Kleber, K9VV.
At HamCation, Resto and Kleber will accept the 2018 International
Humanitarian Award on behalf of radio amateurs in Puerto Rico and the
US Virgin Islands, who aided in relief and recovery after a punishing
Atlantic hurricane season.
ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR, will head the ARRL team at
HamCation.
An ARRL Membership Forum, moderated by ARRL Southeastern Division
Director Greg Sarratt, W4OZK, will take place on Saturday, while
Andrew Milluzzi, KK4LWR, will lead the Collegiate Amateur Radio forum,
discussing topics related to ham radio clubs at colleges and
universities. Topics will include activities, recruitment, connecting
with alumni, and social media.
"Bring your school colors to hang in the ARRL exhibit area," Milluzzi
said. "We'll display your college pennant, flag, or banner to show off
the representation of college and university radio clubs."
ARRL Volunteer Examiners will administer license examinations given on
Friday and Saturday. vance registration is required. Contact Val
Jacyno, AK4MM. Read more.
The Doctor Will See You Now!
"Automatic Gain Control" is the topic of the latest (February 1)
episode of the "ARRL The Doctor is In" podcast. Listen...and learn!
Sponsored by DX Engineering, "ARRL The Doctor is In" is an informative
discussion of all things technical. Listen on your computer, tablet,
or smartphone -- whenever and wherever you like!
Every 2 weeks, your host, QST Editor-in-Chief Steve Ford, WB8IMY, and
the Doctor himself, Joel Hallas, W1ZR, will discuss a broad range of
technical topics. You can also e-mail your questions to
doctor@arrl.org, and the Doctor may answer them in a future podcast.
Enjoy "ARRL The Doctor is In" on Apple iTunes, or by using your iPhone
or iPad podcast app (just search for "ARRL The Doctor is In"). You can
also listen online at Blubrry, or at Stitcher (free registration
required, or browse the site as a guest) and through the free Stitcher
app for iOS, Kindle, or Android devices. If you've never listened to a
podcast before, download our beginner's guide.
Nominations Sought for Philip J. McGan Memorial Silver Antenna Award
Nominations are open for ARRL's annual Philip J. McGan Memorial Silver
Antenna Award, which recognizes and honors the efforts of individuals
who create greater awareness and understanding of the services and
benefits that Amateur Radio provides to the general public. The
deadline to submit a nomination is May 19, 2018.
Every day, Public Information Coordinators, Public Information
Officers, and other public relations volunteers strive to keep Amateur
Radio visible in their communities by publicizing and promoting
special events to the media, by maintaining good relations with local
news outlets, creating content for social media, as well as many other
valuable activities. These efforts benefit us all.
The award is named for journalist Philip J. McGan, WA2MBQ (SK), the
first chairman of ARRL's Public Relations Committee, who helped
reinvigorate the League's commitment to public relations.
Unfortunately, McGan never got to see how well his efforts paid off.
To honor him, his friends in the New Hampshire Amateur Radio
Association joined with the ARRL Board of Directors to pay a lasting
tribute to the important contributions he made on behalf of Amateur
Radio.
The McGan Award will go to the radio amateur who has demonstrated
success in Amateur Radio public relations and who best exemplifies
McGan's volunteer spirit. Activities for which the McGan Award is
presented include efforts specifically directed at focusing the
media's and the general public's attention on the value of Amateur
Radio. This may include traditional methods, such as generating media
coverage of a specific event, or non-traditional methods, such as
hosting a radio show or being an active public speaker.
A candidate's work must fit the definition of public relations, i.e.,
getting a message out to people. (public service is about providing a
service.) The McGan Award recognizes the promotion of Amateur Radio to
the non-amateur community, not for work within a club or organization
that primarily benefits the Amateur Radio community.
The award is given only to an individual, who must be a full ARRL
member in good standing at the time of nomination. The nominee must
not be compensated for any public relations work involving Amateur
Radio (including payment for articles) and may not be a current
officer, Director, Vice Director, paid staff member, or a member of
the current selection committee.
The specific criteria for nomination and the nomination form (in PDF
format) are posted on the ARRL website, or e-mail Dave Isgur at ARRL
Headquarters and ask for a McGan Award entry form. Read more.
Kristen McIntyre, K6WX, Appointed ARRL Pacific Division Vice Director
Kristen McIntyre, K6WX, of Fremont, California, has been appointed
Pacific Division Vice Director, ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR,
has announced. The appointment came upon the recommendation of
Director Jim Tiemstra, K6JAT, who succeeded longtime Pacific Division
Director Bob Vallio, W6RGG, upon Vallio's election as ARRL Second Vice
President.
McIntyre, who has served as ARRL Technical Coordinator for the East
Bay Section, says on her QRZ.com profile that she's been interested in
radio since she was about 5 years old. She got her Technician license
in the late 1970s while a student at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. After letting her license expire, she re-licensed and
obtained her Amateur Extra-class license.
She is also licensed in Japan, her second home, as JI1IZZ. She is
president of the Palo Alto Amateur Radio Association and is currently
a senior software engineer at Apple.
Anticipated New Building Won't Be Ready for Hamvention 2018, but Flea
Market Could Expand
Due to circumstances beyond their control, Hamvention® 2018 organizers
are reluctantly walking back an earlier announcement that a new
building would be available for this year's event at the Greene County
Fairgrounds and Expo Center in Xenia, Ohio.
"Despite all of the best efforts and intentions by Greene County, the
Greene County Agricultural Society, and Hamvention, we have learned
the anticipated new building will not be constructed in time for
Hamvention 2018," Hamvention General Chair Ron Cramer, KD8ENJ, said.
"The prefab sections bid on and architecturally required are currently
backlogged. We expect construction to be delayed until after our show
and the Greene County Fair." Cramer said construction should be
completed this year in time for Hamvention 2019. "We regret this;
however, it is well out of our control," Cramer said.
On the plus side, he continued, Hamvention 2018 will have more room
for inside exhibits, with the addition of the vacated Furniture
Building, and the Flea Market may gain new space as well.
"After consultation with professionals, we are in the process of
solving the mud issue in the Flea Market area," Cramer said. "We
anticipate work to start as soon as weather allows. We are rearranging
the soccer field parking to eliminate use of the low areas where we
had problems last year."
A revised exit plan and additional off-site parking are also in the
works, along with easy-to-use maps to help visitors navigate. Parking
and shuttles will be free. Talk-in also has new equipment and a taller
tower to extend its reach.
"There are many new ideas we are working on to make your stay with us
more enjoyable," Cramer added. "Keep watching our website for
updates." -- Thanks to Hamvention General Chair Ron Cramer, KD8ENJ
Work Progressing to Incorporate CQ Magazine's WAZ Award Program into
LoTW
Beta testing for bringing CQ Magazine's Worked All Zones (WAZ) award
program into ARRL's Logbook of The World (LoTW) system continues to
move forward, officials from CQ and ARRL assured this week.
Some problems in the implementation were discovered by testers and
have since been corrected; the documentation has also been improved by
feedback from the testers. In parallel, the LoTW server has been
executing a background task that creates and populates a WAZ account
for each LoTW user.
Beta testing will continue until this background task completes. When
all WAZ accounts have populated, LoTW-WAZ will be made available to
everyone.
"The goal is for Amateur Radio operators to be able to directly submit
LoTW confirmations for WAZ credit," ARRL and CQ said in a joint
statement. "Standard LoTW credit fees and separate CQ award fees will
apply."
Logbook of The World is ARRL's electronic confirmation system for
Amateur Radio contacts. It provides a confirmation when both stations
in a contact submit their logs to the system and a match between the
logs is confirmed. LoTW has supported the CQ WPX Award program since
2012.
Canadian Radio Amateur Finds Resurrected NASA Satellite
When he's not on ham radio, Scott Tilley, VE7TIL, an amateur
astronomer, hunts spy satellites. Using an S-band radio from his home
in Roberts Creek, British Columbia, Tilley routinely scans the skies
for radio signals from classified objects orbiting Earth, according to
a recent article on Spaceweather.com. Earlier this month, he saw the
signature of IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global
Exploration), a NASA spacecraft believed to have died in December
2005. The discovery has delighted space scientists.
Artist's conception of IMAGE over the North Pole.
"The long gone and nearly forgotten IMAGE spacecraft has come back to
life and been detected by an amateur astronomer," said Mission Manager
Richard J. Burley at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), which
confirmed that what Tilley spotted is, indeed, IMAGE. Amateur observer
Paul Marsh, M0EYT, in the UK, provided the first independent
confirmation of the IMAGE signal.
NASA said on January 29 that observations from five sites were
consistent with the RF characteristics expected of IMAGE.
But just to make certain beyond a shadow of a doubt, scientists at
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab collected telemetry from the
satellite that identified the spacecraft as IMAGE. A NASA team has
been able to read some basic housekeeping data from the spacecraft and
will continue to analyze data from the spacecraft to learn more about
its condition. This will require adapting old software and information
databases to more modern systems.
IMAGE tracks a 2002 eclipse that was visible from a narrow corridor in
southern Africa, the Indian Ocean, and southern Australia.
After the spacecraft went silent, an unsuccessful 2007 effort was made
to track IMAGE in the hope that a "long shadow encounter" would drain
the battery enough to cause IMAGE to reset its control hardware. When
that effort failed, the mission was declared to have ended. Space
scientists now theorize that an even longer eclipse -- or other event
-- did reset the system and bring the transmitter back to life.
Launched in 2000 on a mission to monitor space weather, IMAGE mapped
plasma patterns around Earth, keeping tabs on the planet's
magnetosphere as it responded to solar activity; on-board ultraviolet
cameras shot images of Earth's auroras. "It had capabilities that no
other spacecraft could match -- before or since," said Patricia Reiff,
a member of the original IMAGE science team at Rice University.
Reiff said UC Berkeley still has a ground station that was used for
real-time tracking and control and is scrambling to find the old
software to see it they can get the spacecraft to respond.
"[IMAGE's] global-scale auroral imager would be fantastic for
nowcasting space weather," Reiff said. "Fingers crossed!" -- Thanks to
Alex Schwarz, VE7DXW; Spaceweather.com; NASA
In Brief...
AMSAT Vice President-Operations Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, has declared
that Fox-1D (AO-92) is now open for general Amateur Radio use. That
word followed an announcement from AMSAT Vice President-Engineering
Jerry Buxton, N0JY, that AO-92 had been commissioned and formally
turned over to AMSAT Operations. Initially, the U/v FM transponder
will be open continuously for 1 week. After that, operation will be
shared among the U/v FM transponder, L-Band downshifter, Virginia Tech
Camera, and the University of Iowa's High-Energy Radiation CubeSat
Instrument (HERCI). AMSAT News Service, AMSAT-BB, AMSAT's Twitter
account (@AMSAT), the AMSAT-NA Facebook group, and the AMSAT website
will report any updates. AO-92 was launched from India on January 12.
Testing has shown that both the U/v FM transponder and L-Band
Downshifter are working well. The Virginia Tech camera has returned
photos of Earth, and data from HERCI has been successfully downlinked.
Read more. -- Thanks to AMSAT News Service
China's "Zhou Enlai" CubeSat, launched on January 19, is the country's
first to involve primary and middle school students. Named in honor of
the first Premier of the People's Republic of China, Zhou Enlai, the
CubeSat was developed in Huai'an Youth Comprehensive Development Base
in Jiangsu Province. The 2 kg, 2U CubeSat carries an Amateur Radio FM
transponder and has SSTV capability, in addition to a high-definition
optical camera. An SSTV beacon will post date, time, temperature, and
location information on an SSTV frame. The launch was the 100th
orbital launch attempt from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The
Amateur Radio transponder has a downlink at 436.950 MHz, and an uplink
at 145.930 MHz. Telemetry will be 9.6 k BPSK on 437.350 MHz. Read
more.
The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) APRS
packet system is currently not working. This is due to an as-yet
unidentified anomaly involving the radio serving the system on board
the ISS. A similar problem has occurred in the past, and steps taken
to resolve the problem have proven to be only temporary. "The system
may return to service as it has in the past, or it may have finally
failed completely," ARISS said in a statement. "ARISS sees the
delivery of the interoperable radio system as the true solution to
securing our ARISS packet operation." The target for delivery and
installation of the replacement system is this coming fall. In the
meantime, ARISS said it's continuing to investigate the problem and
attempting to fix it.
The K7RA Solar Update
Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, reports: Low solar activity continues, with
no sunspots seen January 20-29, and a sunspot number of 13 for January
30-31. Average daily solar flux declined marginally from 70 to 69.1.
Predicted solar flux is 69 on February 1-3; 68 on February 4-7; 70 on
February 8-22; 69 on February 23-March 4, and 70 on March 5-17.
The predicted planetary A index is 5 on February 1-3; 10 and 8 on
February 4-5; 5 on February 6-8; 8, 12, and 8 on February 9-11; 5 on
February 12-14; 8, 12, 8, 10, 5, 8, 10, and 8 on February 15-22; 5 on
February 23-March 2; 8 on March 3-4; 5 on March 5-7; 8, 12, and 8 on
March 8-10; 5 on March 11-13, and 8, 12, 8, and 10 on March 14-17.
Joe Flamini, W4BXG, in Virginia wrote to report his surprise at
hearing -- and working -- two mobile stations on 10 meters on January
27 at about 1500 UTC. "I reached out and had a 45-second QSO with them
both before the link faded," he said. "That'll never happen again!"
Sunspot numbers for January 25-31 were 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 13, and 13, with
a mean of 3.7. The 10.7-centimeter flux was 70.3, 69.8, 68.8, 68.5,
68.2, 68.9, and 69.2, with a mean of 69.1. Estimated planetary A
indices were 10, 8, 6, 4, 4, 5, and 7, with a mean of 6.3. Estimated
mid-latitude A indices were 9, 7, 5, 2, 3, 3, and 5, with a mean of
4.9.
Send me your reports and observations!
Just Ahead in Radiosport
February 1 -- NRAU 10 Meter Activity Contest (CW, phone, digital)
February 2-4 -- YLRL YL-OM Contest (CW, phone, digital)
February 3 -- FYBO Winter QRP Sprint (CW, phone, digital)
February 3 -- Minnesota QSO Party (CW, phone, digital)
February 3 -- AGCW Straight Key Party
February 3 -- FISTS Winter Slow Speed Sprint (CW)
February 3-4 -- Vermont QSO Party (CW, phone, digital)
February 3-4 -- 10-10 International Winter Contest (SSB)
February 3-4 -- Black Sea Cup International (CW, phone)
February 3-4 -- F9AA Cup (CW)
February 3-4 -- Mexico RTTY International Contest
February 3-4 -- British Columbia QSO Party (CW, phone, digital)
February 4 -- North American Sprint (CW)
February 5 -- RSGB 80 Meter Club Championship (SSB)
February 6 -- ARS Spartan Sprint (CW)
February 7 -- 3.5 UKEICC 80 Meter Contest
See the ARRL Contest Calendar for more information. For in-depth
reporting on Amateur Radio contesting, subscribe to The ARRL Contest
Update via your ARRL member profile e-mail preferences.
Upcoming ARRL Section, State, and Division Conventions
February 3 -- South Carolina State Convention, North Charleston, South
Carolina
February 3 -- Virginia State Convention (Frostfest), Richmond,
Virginia
February 9-11 -- Florida State Convention (HamCation), Orlando,
Florida
February 16-17 -- Southwestern Division Convention, Yuma, Arizona
February 24 -- TECHCON Conference, Winter Haven, Florida
February 24 -- New Mexico TechFest, Albuquerque, New Mexico
February 24 -- Vermont State Convention, S. Burlington, Vermont
March 2-3 -- Alabama State Convention, Irondale, Alabama
March 3 -- Arkansas State Convention, Russellville, Arkansas
March 9-10 -- Louisiana State Convention, Rayne, Louisiana
March 9-10 -- North Carolina Section Convention, Concord, North
Carolina
March 10 -- Nebraska State Convention, Lincoln, Nebraska
March 16-17 -- South Texas Section Convention, Rosenberg, Texas
March 17 -- Southern Florida Section Convention, Stuart, Florida
March 17 -- West Texas Section Convention, Midland, Texas
March 24 -- Utah Digital Communications Conference, Sandy, Utah
March 24 -- MicroHAMS Digital Conference, Redmond, Washington
March 24 -- West Virginia Section Convention, Charleston, West
Virginia
March 30-31 -- Maine State Convention, Lewiston, Maine
March 31 -- North Carolina State Convention, Raleigh, North Carolina
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