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NEWINGTON, CT, May 17, 2006--Visitors to ARRL EXPO 2006 at Dayton Hamvention® Friday, May 19, through
Sunday, May 21, will be treated to a wide variety of mini-forums on the ARRL Stage.
Topics will range from the educational to the entertaining. These live
presentations will begin every half hour on the ARRL Stage, located in the ARRL
EXPO in the Ballarena of Hara Arena.
 ARRL Marketing Manager Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R, introduces the next speaker on the ARRL Stage during ARRL EXPO 2005. |
 ARRL Web Youth Contributing Editor Andrea Hartlage, KG4IUM, will be back again this year on the ARRL EXPO 2006 stage. |
 ARRL Affiliated Club/Mentor Program Manager Norm Fusaro, W3IZ, will present "DXing for Beginners" on the ARRL EXPO 2006 stage. |
"The wide array of short presentations lined up for the ARRL stage depicts a showcase of League programs and services," says ARRL Marketing Manager Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R, who's overseeing much of the League's Hamvention presence. "This is opportunity for ARRL members and prospective members to experience, firsthand, the very best of ARRL and Amateur Radio."
Kicking off the schedule of approximately 15-minute presentations will be QST Editor Steve Ford, WB8IMY, talking on "Getting Started with HF Digital." Other presentation topics (see the full schedule on the ARRL EXPO 2006 Web site) include "A New Look for QST Product Review" by QST Technical Editor Joel Hallas, W1ZR, "DXing for Beginners" by ARRL Affiliated Club/Mentor Program Manager Norm Fusaro, W3IZ, and "QSL! QSL! How to Send Them So You'll Get Them" by ARRL First Vice President Kay Craigie, N3KN.
In all, the ARRL stage will offer presentations on upward of two dozen different topics. Speakers will do encore performances throughout the weekend to make it more convenient for visitors' schedules and to avoid conflicts with other Hamvention forums.
ARRL Hamvention Forums
The ARRL EXPO 2006 mini-forums complement the schedule of ARRL Hamvention forums. "ARRL: Main Street USA," Friday, 10 AM in Room 1, will give Hamventioneers the opportunity to meet and hear ARRL's new President Joel Harrison, W5ZN. Harrison says he'll focus his remarks on how we have to change our approach toward today's prospective radio amateurs because of the demographic changes on the Main Street of today.
"I believe Amateur Radio's future is at least as bright as its past," Harrison said in the March 2006 QST , "It Seems to Us . . ." editorial. "Radio is still magic, and always will be. But Main Street USA has changed. The Average Joe changed. And so Amateur Radio, too, must change if we are to share our passion for the magic of radio with future generations."
In all, the League will sponsor 10 Hamvention forums, with topics ranging from antennas, public relations and ham radio in the classroom to broadband over power line, grassroots legislative lobbying and League membership. The complete schedule of ARRL forums and a brief description of each is available on the ARRL EXPO 2006 Web page (scroll down to "ARRL Forums").
See you at Dayton Hamvention!
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