PACIFICON 2008 *** October 17 - 19 *** San Ramon Marriott Hotel
*** San Ramon, California ***
Forums Schedule
Pacificon 2008 - Ham Radio Convention
Forums Schedule |
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PACIFICON 2008 *** October 17 - 19 *** San Ramon Marriott Hotel *** San Ramon, California *** |
| Friday Forums | Saturday Forums | Sunday Forums |
Friday Forums - October 17, 2008
| Salon 1 | Salon 2 | Salon F | Salon G | Salon H | Pleasanton Room |
Danville Room |
San Ramon Room |
Mt Diablo Room |
Rm 153 | Rm 157 | |
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| FRIDAY | Conference Room Location Diagram |
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| Morning | 8 am Antenna
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9 am Legal Seminar |
Student & Beginner's Lounge |
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| 12 noon | 8 am Antenna |
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| 1:00 pm | 1:00 to 2:00 pm |
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| 2:00 pm | 2:00 to 3:00 pm Beginner's Forum by Katie Breen |
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| 3:00 pm | 3:00 to 4:00 pm DX and Contesting by Dean Straw |
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| Evening | 7:30 pm to 10 pm QRP Forums |
7:30 pm
to 9 pm Open MDARC Meeting hosted by the Mt. Diablo Amateur Radio Club |
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| Friday Forums | Saturday Forums | Sunday Forums |
| Salon 1 | Salon 2 | Salon F | Salon G | Salon H | Pleasanton Room |
Danville Room |
San Ramon Room |
Mt Diablo Room |
Rm 153 | Rm 157 | |
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| SATURDAY | Conference Room Location Diagram |
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| 8:00 am | 9 am QRP Forums |
8 am One Day (exam at 5 pm) |
Canoeing Yukon to Alaska with Solar Power Radio by Sam Vigil |
8:15 am Boy Scouts Jamboree |
Cactus Network - Multi Port Linking Systems by George Zarfiropoulos |
Antenna Launcher by Alan Biocca |
Student & Beginner's Lounge |
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| 9:00 am | Amateur Radio & NASA Utah Mars Mission Test by Andrea Hartlage |
Web Server on Radio by William Dale |
Club Websites by Jim Burris |
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| 10:00 am | VHF/UHF/ DX |
VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocols by Jeffrey Stouffer |
Low Band Antennas by Jim Peterson |
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| 11:00 am | D-Star by Tim Barret |
ATV Forum & Demonstrations by Tom O'Hara |
Wide Area Linking - 63 Repeaters, 4 Countries by Jeffrey Stouffer |
Kit Building by Wayne Burdick |
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12 noon |
Lunch & Dixieland Band in the Courtyard |
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| Salon 1 | Salon 2 | Salon F | Salon G | Salon H | Pleasanton Room |
Danville Room |
San Ramon Room |
Mt Diablo Room |
Rm 153 | Rm 157 | |
| 1:00 pm | 9 am QRP Forums |
8 am One Day (exam at 5 pm) |
Long Haul VHF/UHF Tropo - Comm Van by Gordon West |
8:15 am Boy Scouts Jamboree |
ARES Oregon Floods by Bonnie Altus |
High Performance Tranceivers by Eric Schwartz |
Student & Beginner's Lounge |
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| 2:00 pm | Six meters - The Magic Band by Ken Neubeck |
"Radio Mobile" - Predicting VHF/UHF Paths by John Stuart |
AMSAT: Amateur Satellite Communication by Robert Hayes |
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| 3:00 pm | Radio Teletype |
HFpack Forums | Emergency Communications Planning by Jim Tiemstra |
Emergency
PIO's: Public Information During Disasters by Don Carlson |
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| 4:00 pm | CERT: Community Emergency Response Team by Herbert Cole |
Producing Amateur Radio Videos by Randy Hall |
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| 5:00 pm | RACES: Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service by Per Bashers |
Army MARS 2008 Update by Jim McLaughlin |
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| 7:30 pm to 10:00 |
QRP Forums |
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| Midnight |
Midnight Wouff Hong Ceremony by Lauren Styles |
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| Friday Forums | Saturday Forums | Sunday Forums |
Sunday Forums - October 19, 2008
| Salon 1 | Salon 2 | Salon F | Salon G | Salon H | Pleasanton Room |
Danville Room |
San Ramon Room |
Mt Diablo Room |
Rm 153 | Rm 157 | |
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| SUNDAY | Conference Room Location Diagram |
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| 8:00 am | |||||||||||
| 9:00 am | D-Star by Tim Barret |
DX and Contesting by Chip Magelli |
8:30 am
to Boy Scouts Jamboree |
Strato Fox - Tracking Satellites & Rockets by William Dale |
CERT: Community Emergency Response Team by Herbert Cole |
Student & Beginner's Lounge |
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| 10:00 am | AM Radio - AM International by Brad Hollander |
DXpeditions by Bob Vallio |
Starting at the Beginning - Mentoring, Growth by Katie Breen |
HF Antennas for Small Lots by Jim Brown |
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| 11:00 am | ATNC - ATV Demo & Forum by Tom O'Hara |
ARRL Update by Andy Opel |
Youth and Ham Radio by Andrea Hartlage |
Antenna Impedance Matching - Smith Charts by Steve Sterns |
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| 12 noon to 1:00 pm |
Lunch | ||||||||||
| 1:00 | ARRL Forum: The American Radio Relay league |
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| Friday Forums | Saturday Forums | Sunday Forums |
We are continuing to evaluate topics and potential presenters for Pacificon 2008 Forums.
If you feel you have expertise on a relevant topic and would like to discuss
doing a presentation on that topic,
we encourage you to email John Ronan, K3ZJJ,
the chairperson of the
Pacificon 2008 Forums Committee, at Jtronan@aol.com.
*** See Hotel Layout page for location of conference rooms ***
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