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HamConBe
· Events · Sylvain, F4GKR

The HamConBE 2025 Conference is the Belgium’s premier forum for engineers, scientists, radio amateurs, researchers, and students to exchange ideas on advancements in radio technology and beyond. Admission to the Conference is free, but registration is mandatory.

Where: KU Leuven, Campus Arenberg III “Quadrivium” Celestijnenlaan 200, 3001 Leuven
When: Saturday 26th of April 2025

All details here: https://​hamcon​.be/

Program:

Amateur Radio (non-technical)

  • 20 years of Digital voice (NL) (Patrick, ON4PN)
  • Radiosports: the competitive side of ham radio (Franki, ON5ZO)
  • Ham radio as a tool: promoting amateur radio in the science and hacker/maker communities (Kristoff, ON1ARF)

Radio-Technology (technical)

  • Mains pollution by electronics-generated harmonics, consequences and mitigation (Thierry, ON5TE)
  • The issues with SDR (Morgan, ON4MOD)
  • Tracking of the Asian hornets with BLE and SDR (Gilles Callebaut/Jan Van Moer, KU Leuven Campus Gent / Van Moer Consultancy)
  • Meshtastic (Thijs (@GUVWAF), Meshtastic Project)

Radiotechnology in science and space

  • Ham radio beacons aboard pocket-qube satellites for investigating sporadic E in the ionosphere (Jurgen Vanhamel, ON5ADL, TU Delft / KU Leuven)
  • Radioastronomy: An Introduction (Bernard, ON4CGX)
  • Introduction to Weather Radar: principles, challenges and applications (Maarten Reyniers, KMI)

Workshop

  • Building a TinyGS Station (Jeffrey Roe, EI7IRB)

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Provisional Results Marconi Memorial VHF Contest
· VHF/UHF/SHF · Alex, IV3KKW

The provisional results for the last 2024 Marconi Memorial VHF Contest are available on the IARU Region 1 VHF & Up Contest Robot.

We have received 766 logs from 28 different countries of our Region 1.

The complaining period will end on March 24th, and after that results will be final.

The prizing ceremony will be during the HamRadio fair in Friedrichshafen on June 27th.

For any further requests please write to Alex IV3KKW [Contest WG Chair].

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Provisional Results IARU R1 UHF & MW Contest
· VHF/UHF/SHF · Alex, IV3KKW

Provisional results for the last 2024 IARU R1 UHF & MW Contest are available on the IARU Region 1 VHF & Up Contest Robot.

We have received a total of 1820 logs from 25 different countries covering the majority of our Region 1.

The complaining period will end on March 23rd, and after that results will be final.

The prizing ceremony will be during the HamRadio fair in Friedrichshafen on June 27th.

For any further requests please write to Alex IV3KKW [Contest WG Chair].

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M17 Conference 2025 in Poland, September 6 – 7 (Sat-Sun)
· Events, VHF/UHF/SHFTagged , · Sylvain, F4GKR

The M17 Foundation is pleased to inform that the M17 Conference 2025 will take place on 6 – 7 September, in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, Poland. The main topic will be open-source software and hardware development in the amateur radio realm, with the emphasis on M17 and all the solutions around it. Any topic that might be interesting to the ham radio community is welcomed!

The venue is located very conveniently, just 40km from Warsaw, and a stone’s throw from the Warsaw-Modlin airport. The event will be a combination of technical talk sessions and exhibitions. Admission is free.

Speakers and exhibitors are required to register. The registration form is available through the link below.

More info: https://​m17foundation​.org/​m​1​7​-​c​o​n​f​e​r​e​n​c​e​-​2​025

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