This weekend will be the Two Rivers ARC hamfest.  The hamfest will be held in Boston Pa. on Sunday April 27. Additional information is available at http://www.trarc.net/trarc-hamfest        Another upcoming event will be the Emmcomm convention to be held on June 14 at University of Pittsburg Johnstown, Pa. This year the event is a sanction ARRL event and we will have several door prizes to be awarded to participants. Please check the website for additional information and also to register so we have an idea of how many individuals will be attending. The information for the conference is available at http://wpaares.org/       It's still not too late to sign up to help with this year's Pittsburgh Marathon on Sunday May 4.  Registration for amateur radio volunteers is still open.  To sign up and select your operating position, please go to http://marathon.central.org/ .  Click on the link for "volunteer registration" in the last paragraph and you'll be taken to the sign-up page.       One of our area clubs the Phillipsburg ARA has installed one of the new System Fusion dual mode analog repeaters. This is in cooperation with Yeasu and more information can be found on this project at http://www.philipsburg-ara.org/2014/04/big-43-system-fusion/      Clubs with special projects or information they would like to have distributed to the members of WPA can send their information to me at n3mse@arrl.org I will be happy to send this out via the league server.       Hopefully many of you are participating in the ARRL Centennial operating events. W1AW portable is operating from two different states each week. This is a great opportunity to achieve the WAS award by working W1AW. Each state will be on the air two separate weeks during the year. Also a contest with points assigned to members and to those with field appointments. Members without a field appointment are still awarded one point for being a member. Look forward to working many of you during the contest.   73 John V. Rodgers, N3MSE W. Pa. Section Manager

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ARRL Western Pennsylvania Section
Section Manager: John V Rodgers, N3MSE
n3mse@arrl.org