A call for short presentations at the Puyallup Mike and Key Hamfest

[Grant Hopper]

In 2025, MicroHAMS offered a series of short presentations at the Mike and Key hamfest, covering such wide ranging subjects as kit building, Radio Direction Finding, APRS, and GNU Radio.

It was so well received, the hamfest organizers asked MicroHAMS to put on the presentation offering again in 2026.   This year I wanted to try to widen the scope of offerings and groups making presentations so I'm sending out details and asking interested persons (or groups) to contact me and share what they could offer as a short presentation.

The general guidance for topic and detail is to show an area of the hobby that people might not be well exposed to, and why they might have an interest in exploring that area, tool, or idea.

The format is slightly changed this year based on feedback from last year:

There will be slightly longer slots this year, at 20 minutes (top of the hour, 20 after, and 40 after) with a 15 minute program (12 minutes of program and 3 minutes of questions, adjusted as the presenter sees fit) with 2-3 minutes before and after for setup and wrap-up.  We will be starting at 8 AM on Saturday and running through 1 PM.

MicroHAMS will have a screen, projector, laptop with Powerpoint, and an amplified speaker system with microphone (and connection to the laptop audio.)  We will also have a host that will help you with setup and wrap-up.

If you have any interest, or questions please contact the program manager (me) Grant Hopper, KB7WSD at kb7...@gmail.com

Thanks and 73,

Grant Hopper

KB7WSD

MicroHAMS club Secretary