40th Anniversary CSVHFS Conference
July 28-29, 2006 Bloomington, MN
Ramada Mall of America (formerly the Thunderbird)
(Across from Mall of America)
Call for Papers

The Central States VHF Society is soliciting papers, presentations, and Poster displays for the 40th Annual CSVHFS Conference on 27 – 29 July, 2006. Papers, presentations, and Posters on all aspects of weak-signal VHF and above amateur radio are requested. You do not need to attend the conference, nor present your paper, to have it published in the Proceedings. Posters will be displayed during the two days of the Conference.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Antennas including Modeling/Design, Arrays, & Control
 		   Test Equipment including Homebrew, Using, & making measurements
 
Construction of equipment, such as Transmitters, Receivers, & Transverters
 		   Operatingincluding Contesting, Roving, & DXpeditions
 
RF power amps including Single- & Multi-band Vacuum Tube & solid-state
 		   Propagation including Ducting, Sporadic E, Tropospheric & Meteor Scatter, etc.
 
Pre-amplifiers (low noise)
 		   Digitial Modes WSJT, JT65, etc.
 
Regulatory topics
 		   EME
 
Software-defined Radio (SDR)   Digital Signal Processing (DSP)

Generally, topics not related to weak signal VHF, such as FM Repeaters and packet radio, are not accepted for presentation or publication. However, there are always exceptions.

Please contact either the Technical Program Chairman, Jon Platt, W0ZQ, or the Proceedings Chairman, Donn Baker, WA2VOI/0 at the the email addresses below.

Deadline for submissions:
For the Proceedings: Monday, 1 May 2006
For Presentations to be delivered at the conference: Monday, 3 July 2006
For NOTIFYING US you will have a Poster to be displayed at the conference: Monday, 3 July 2006. Bring your poster with you on the 27th of July.

Further information is available at the CSVHFS web site (www.csvhfs.org), “The 2006 Conference,” and “Guidance for Proceedings Authors,” “Guidance for Presenters,” and “Guidance for Table-top/Poster Displays.”

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