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Forums Schedule 2025

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Friday

Room 1

Room 2

Room 3

Room 4
9:15 AM - 10:05 AM
Andy's Ham Radio Linux
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9:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Frontiers in RF - AI, People, and Amateur Radio - Radio Club of America
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9:15 AM - 10:05 AM
DX Marathon - A Program for All Hams Worldwide
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9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
TAPR - Topics in Digital Radio
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10:15 AM - 12:05 PM
Elecraft K4D Users Group
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11:10 AM - 12:30 PM
BalloonSat - Taking Amateur Radio to New Heights
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10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Salty Walt's Portable Antenna Forum
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10:25 AM - 11:20 AM
Five Years in POTA: What I've Learned
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12:15 PM - 1:50 PM
SOTA to the Max: Friendships, Sunspots, and Pileups
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12:40 PM - 2:10 PM
LICW and the Renaissance of Morse Code
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11:25 AM - 12:40 PM
Collins Radio Innovation and HF Communications from the 1950s to the 80s
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11:30 AM - 12:20 PM
Kit Building Techniques for Success
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2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Antenna Forum
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2:20 PM - 3:35 PM
Lightning, Grounding and Radio Frequency Interference (RFI)
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12:50 PM - 2:00 PM
Strategy, Grantmaking, and 44Net: ARDC’s Roadmap for the Future
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12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Digital Contest Forum
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3:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Power Line Interference and Chokes
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2:10 PM - 3:00 PM
Ham Radio and the Law
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2:10 PM - 3:30 PM
YLRL: Women - Independence through Amateur Radio
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3:10 PM - 4:00 PM
APRS - State of the Union
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3:40 PM - 5:00 PM
Foxhunting / Transmitter Hunting
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4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
100 years of MARS
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Saturday

Room 1

Room 2

Room 3

Room 4
9:15 AM - 10:05 AM
Ham Nation and Friends
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9:15 AM - 10:10 AM
Best Practices in Remote HF Operating
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9:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Radio Club of America Youth Forum
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9:15 AM - 10:10 AM
HF Digital Modes
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10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
DX Forum - Part 1
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10:20 AM - 11:20 AM
Explore the Excitement of Parks on the Air
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11:25 AM - 12:50 PM
ARRL Membership Forum
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10:20 AM - 11:15 AM
Fast Scan Amateur Television Forum
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11:55 AM - 1:25 PM
DX Forum - Part 2
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11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Parks on the Air: The Road Ahead
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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
ARRL Youth Rally Activities
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11:25 AM - 12:20 PM
Hints and Kinks with NanoVNA
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1:35 PM - 3:50 PM
Contesting
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12:40 PM - 1:40 PM
ARISS: Celebrating 25 Years of Continuous Operations on ISS and Introducing New, Pioneering Human S
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4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
Software Defined Radio
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12:30 PM - 1:25 PM
VHF-UHF-Microwave Forum
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
HamSCI: The Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation
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1:35 PM - 3:10 PM
AMSAT
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1:35 PM - 2:30 PM
Close Encounters of the Microcontroller Kind
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3:20 PM - 5:00 PM
System Fusion
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2:40 PM - 3:50 PM
Node Red Live Build
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Sunday

Room 1

Room 2

Room 3

Room 4
9:15 AM - 10:20 AM
Ham Radio Trivia with Kahoots!
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9:15 AM - 10:20 AM
ARRL FCC Update
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9:15 AM - 10:20 AM
ARRL Youth Outreach through STEM
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9:15 AM - 10:20 AM
Starting a Club Youtube Channel
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10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Go Kit Design, A Fresh Approach
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10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
ARRL Radiosport Forum - Level Up!
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10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
ARES - Building Relationships in Public Service
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10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Homebrewing in 2025
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Full Details for Friday – Saturday – Sunday

updated 3/22/25

 Friday details  Saturday details  Sunday details

Each year Hamvention hosts dozens of forums covering a variety of topics ranging from antenna design to software-defined radio and everything in between.  This year will be no exception as attendees will be able to choose from over two dozen forums scheduled throughout the event.

All three days details

Chris Rismiller

N8PEM

Chair, Forums

Barb Gerbs

N8NQE

Assistant Chair, Forums

For information regarding Hamvention Forums, contact the committee at: forums@hamvention.org

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