The following are the current confirmed speakers and topics for Friday and Saturday of the ARRL Centennial Convention
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Day | Time | Title | Presenter | Room |
Friday | 9:00 AM | Shutdown and Called-Up – Hams in The Great War | Chris Codella, W2PA | 22 |
Friday | 9:00 AM | Personal Safety in the Electronic Age | Doug Rehman, K4AC | 24 |
Friday | 9:00 AM | Kit Building Techniques for Success | Joe Eisenberg, K0NEB | 25 |
Friday | 9:00 AM | FreeDV, Digital Voice over HF using CODEC2 | Mel Whitten, K0PFX | 26 |
Friday | 9:00 AM | Amateur Radio & Common Core Standards | Alma Ripley, XYL | 27 |
Friday | 10:00 AM | An Introduction to HF Digital Operations | Steve Ford, WB8IMY | 21 |
Friday | 10:00 AM | Six Meters - The Magic Band | Ken Neubeck, WB2AMU | 23 |
Friday | 10:00 AM | Amateur Radio and Technology in the American Red Cross | Keith Robertory, KG4UIR | 24 |
Friday | 10:00 AM | Tower Climbing Safety and Rescue | Philip Theis, K3TUF | 25 |
Friday | 10:00 AM | Introduction to PIC programming | Mark Spencer, WA8SME | 26 |
Friday | 10:00 AM | The National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coodinators and the NCVEC Question Pool Committee | Rol Anders, K3RA | 27 |
Friday | 11:00 AM | DHS-OEC - Update on the National Emergency Plan | Chris Essid, Deputy Director DHS OEC | 11 |
Friday | 11:00 AM | The Art of The Interview | Mark Kraham, W8CMK | 22 |
Friday | 11:00 AM | QSLing in the 21st Century | William Hudzik, W2UDT | 23 |
Friday | 11:00 AM | High Altitude Amateur Radio Ballooning | Doug Loughmiller, W5BL | 25 |
Friday | 11:00 AM | Why QRP? | Ken Evans, W4DU | 26 |
Friday | 11:00 AM | The 170 Year History of Telegraph Keys | Tom Perera, W1TP | 27 |
Friday | 1:00 PM | Broadband Mesh Networking and Amateur Radio | Brian Mileshosky, N5ZGT | 21 |
Friday | 1:00 PM | We All Have Our Dreams -- OH2BH's 50 Years Radio Journey | Martti Laine, OH2BH | 22 |
Friday | 1:00 PM | Youth Fox Hunt | Tommy Gober, N5DUX | 23 |
Friday | 1:00 PM | Public Service Communications - Maintaining Readiness When Nothing Bad Is Happening | Ross Merlin, WA2WDT | 24 |
Friday | 1:00 PM | VHF Rovers: Past, Present and Future | Rick Rosen, K1DS | 25 |
Friday | 1:00 PM | PICAXE Programming Primer | Bill Unger, VE3XT | 26 |
Friday | 1:00 PM | An Early History of Radio | James Wades, WB8SIW | 27 |
Friday | 2:00 PM | FEMA Forum - Topic TBA | Ted Okada, K4HNL | 21 |
Friday | 2:00 PM | Ham Radio and the Law (2-hour forum) | Jim O'Connell, W9WU | 22 |
Friday | 2:00 PM | Youth Forum #1 | Carole Perry, WB2MGP | 23 |
Friday | 2:00 PM | When Worlds Collide: The Blending of the Maker and Amateur Radio Cultures | Craig Behrens, NM4T | 24 |
Friday | 2:00 PM | An Overview of AMSAT | Barry Baines, WD4ASW | 25 |
Friday | 2:00 PM | The Changing Modes of VHF And Microwave Amateur Radio | Doug Rehman, K4AC | 26 |
Friday | 2:00 PM | US Airforce PAVE PAWS Mission Briefing | Lt. Ben Brinich | 27 |
Friday | 3:00 PM | Boston Marathon Communications - Before, During and After | Robert Macedo, KD1CY | 21 |
Friday | 3:00 PM | Youth Discovery Station | Tommy Gober, N5DUX | 23 |
Friday | 3:00 PM | National Hurricane Center WX4NHC Amateur Radio | Julio Ripoll, WD4R | 24 |
Friday | 3:00 PM | Working the Amateur Radio FM Satellies with Your HT | Peter Portanova, W2JV | 25 |
Friday | 3:00 PM | Linux in the Hamshack | Andy Stewart, KB1OIQ | 26 |
Friday | 3:00 PM | Where Did the Bands Come From? | Chris Codella, W2PA | 27 |
Saturday | 9:00 AM | What We Owe The Amateur Service | Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH | 21 |
Saturday | 9:00 AM | Presenting Amateur Radio to the Media | John Amodeo, NN6JA | 22 |
Saturday | 9:00 AM | Youth Scavenger Hunt | Tommy Gober, N5DUX | 23 |
Saturday | 9:00 AM | International Disaster Response: Lessons Learned | Jay Wilson, W0AIR | 24 |
Saturday | 9:00 AM | SDR Advances and the Future of SDR | Stephen Hicks, N5AC | 26 |
Saturday | 9:00 AM | Collecting and Restoring Radios of the Past | Patrick Bunsold, WA6MHZ | 27 |
Saturday | 10:00 AM | Remote Station Operations - The Basics Made Easy | Dave Anderson, K4SV | 21 |
Saturday | 10:00 AM | ARRL Field Day - The Gateway for Many | Rol Anders, K3RA | 22 |
Saturday | 10:00 AM | Youth Forum #2 | Carole Perry, WB2MGP | 23 |
Saturday | 10:00 AM | Propagation Forecasting - A Peek Behind the Curtain | Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA | 24 |
Saturday | 10:00 AM | Introduction to Antenna Modeling | Greg Algieri, WA1JXR | 25 |
Saturday | 10:00 AM | Software Defined Radio for Beginners | Stephen Hicks, N5AC | 26 |
Saturday | 10:00 AM | QRZ - Past, Present and into the Future | Fred Lloyd, AA7BQ | 27 |
Saturday | 11:00 AM | How to Blow up Your Balun - and other things in your antenna system too! | Dean Straw, N6BV | 21 |
Saturday | 11:00 AM | PR- 101: The Next Generation | Ed Tyler, N4EDT | 22 |
Saturday | 11:00 AM | Youth Rado Lab | Tommy Gober, N5DUX | 23 |
Saturday | 11:00 AM | QRP - Operators and Operations | Dennis Marandos, K1LGQ | 24 |
Saturday | 11:00 AM | From HT to Microwave - Making The Transition | Doug Rehman, K4AC | 25 |
Saturday | 11:00 AM | Raspberry PI – A Low Cost Platform for Amateur Radio Projects | Brian Mileshosky, N5ZGT | 26 |
Saturday | 11:00 AM | The Design, Construction and Performance of a State of the Art Multi-Op Station | Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC | 27 |
Saturday | 12:00 PM | Gazing into the Future - DXing with Weak Signals and Beyond | Joe Taylor, K1JT | Main Stage |
Saturday | 1:00 PM | The Myths and Misconceptions of RFI | Ed Hare, W1RFI | 21 |
Saturday | 1:00 PM | The Enigma and Other Communications Enciphering Devices | Tom Perera, W1TP | 22 |
Saturday | 1:00 PM | Building a Successful Club Program | Thomas Sly, WB8LCD | 23 |
Saturday | 1:00 PM | Hamshack in a Backpack - Lightweight Dxpeditioning | Scott Andersen, NE1RD | 24 |
Saturday | 1:00 PM | Yankee Clipper Contest Club Meeting | Tony Brock-Fisher, K1KP | 25 |
Saturday | 1:00 PM | DXpeditions and the 21st Century Dynamics | Bob Allphin, K4UEE | 26 |
Saturday | 1:00 PM | The Origins of Silicon Valley: Roots in Ham Radio | Paul Wesling, KM6LH | 27 |
Saturday | 2:00 PM | Best Practices of the National Weather Service's SKYWARN Program | Robert Macedo, KD1CY | 22 |
Saturday | 2:00 PM | Tropo Propagation on the VHF and UHF Bands | Gordon West, WB6NOA | 23 |
Saturday | 2:00 PM | MARS Forum | Bob Veth, K1RJV | 24 |
Saturday | 2:00 PM | 2014 World Radiosport Team Championship | Randy Thompson, K5ZD | 25 |
Saturday | 2:00 PM | Using Surplus Commercial Radios in Amateur Radio | Paul Gilbert, KE5ZW | 26 |
Saturday | 2:00 PM | Old Transmissions and Voices from the Past. | John Dilks, K2TQN | 27 |
Saturday | 3:00 PM | ARRL Legislative Action Update - HR 4969 Call to Action | Dan Henderson, N1ND | 22 |
Saturday | 3:00 PM | 160 Meters - Mastering the Challenge | Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA | 25 |