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<div><b>From:</b> Joel Harrison <w5zn@w5zn.org></div><div><b>To:</b> </div><div><b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 14, 2023 at 04:43:54 PM CDT</div><div><b>Subject:</b> 55th Central States VHF Society Conference</div><div><br></div>
<div><div id="ydpdad73b8eyiv5544626183"><div><div class="ydpdad73b8eyiv5544626183WordSection1"><p class="ydpdad73b8eyiv5544626183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">The 55<sup>th</sup> Central States VHF Society conference will be held in North Little Rock, AR on July 28-29 at the Riverfront Wyndham Hotel. This annual conference, hosted at venues all over the central United States, provides a host of technical information and opportunities for 6 meters and above.</span></p><p class="ydpdad73b8eyiv5544626183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">I personally want to invite you to attend.</span></p><p class="ydpdad73b8eyiv5544626183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">On Friday morning this year’s conference will offer the traditional antenna range for antenna gain measurements, a noise figure lab for testing preamps or transverters, and a technical program Friday afternoon and all day Saturday. The technical program is attached. The Society also publishes a conference proceedings. This year’s proceedings contains 35 technical papers covering a wide range of equipment, antenna, propagation, and operating topics.</span></p><p class="ydpdad73b8eyiv5544626183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Registration for the conference is $40 and is required. Advance registration is recommended but may be done at the event Friday morning or Saturday. Information on the registration fee may be found at <a href="https://www.csvhfs.org/index.php/2023-annual-conference-registration/individual-registration" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1;">https://www.csvhfs.org/index.php/2023-annual-conference-registration/individual-registration</span></a>. There are additional luncheon and banquet activities during the conference period that are optional, but not required for the base registration to attend the technical program.</span></p><p class="ydpdad73b8eyiv5544626183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Our special guest this year is Ward Silver, N0AX. Ward will speak on “Grounding & Bonding” during the technical session but will also be our banquet speaker on “The Yasme Foundation, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”.</span></p><p class="ydpdad73b8eyiv5544626183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">If you have any questions, please contact me.</span></p><p class="ydpdad73b8eyiv5544626183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">73 Joel W5ZN</span></p><p class="ydpdad73b8eyiv5544626183MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p></div></div>
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