HamSCI at the Northeast HamXposition

HamSCI at the Northeast HamXposition

Thursday, August 28, 2025 - 20:01

HamSCI was well represented at the 2025 Northeast HamXposition, held 21-24 August, in Marlborough (Boston), Massachusetts. Our booth attracted many visitors armed with questions and a strong fascination for what we do. The booth featured working GRAPE receivers of various 'flavors' (GRAPE 1, GRAPE 1 DRF and GRAPE 2), a live display of the new SDR PSWS installation at K3LR plus an array of posters highlighting both past and active experiments.  Overall awareness of our HamSCI efforts appears to be getting better and better!

Dr. Nathaniel Frissell W2NAF was the keynote speaker at the HamX banquet and provided a comprehensive overview of the origins of the group, our past and current experiments such as the SEQP and MSQP and a look into the future.

HamSCI volunteers accompanying Frissell to Marlborough were Bill Blackwell AB1XB, Bob Reif W1XP, Stan Pozerski KD1LE, Mindy Hull KM1NDY and Ed  Efchak WX2R.

The full list of HamSCI speakers and their talks:

A Portable Radio Operator's Pivot to Citizen Science: The Ham Path Less Traveled
Mindy Hull, KM1NDY
 
Contesting - A Little History, and the Future
Tim Duffy, K3LR
 
Saturday Evening Grand Banquet
Dr. Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF
 
Tnx to Ed, WX2R for reporting on the event and for providing photos.