Guidance for Proceedings Authors

SOLICITATION AND TOPICS

The 2025 Central States VHF Society Conference is soliciting papers for publishing in its Proceedings of the 2025 Central States VHF Conference on all weak-signal VHF and above amateur radio topics, including:

  • Antennas: including Modeling, Design, Arrays, and Control
  • Test Equipment: including Homebrew, Commercial, and Measurement Techniques & Tips
  • Construction of equipment such as Transmitters, Receivers, and Transverters
  • Operating: including Contesting, Roving, and DXpeditions
  • RF power amps: including Single and Multi-band Vacuum Tube, Solid-state, and TWTAs
  • Propagation: including Ducting, Sporadic E, Tropospheric, Meteor Scatter, etc.
  • Pre-amplifiers (low noise)
  • Digital Modes such as WSJT, JT65, FT8, JT6M, ISCAT, etc
  • Regulatory topics
  • Moon Bounce (EME)
  • Software-defined Radio (SDR)
  • Digital Signal Processing (DSP)

Topics such as FM, repeaters, packet radio, etc., are generally considered outside of the scope of papers being sought. However, there are always exceptions. Please contact the coodinator below if you have any questions about the suitability of a particular topic.

You do not need to attend the conference nor present your paper to have it published in the Proceedings. 

KEY SUBMISSION DEADLINES

  • For inclusion in the Proceedings: Papers MUST be received NO LATER than June 14th by the coordinator below.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

  • Submissions accepted via email only to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Submissions using any form of previously published or copyrighted material MUST include the copyright statement and written permission for reproduction.
  • Authors retain copyright to the work. By submission, authors consent to publication in the Proceedings, both printed as well as electronic (if offered).

COORDINATORS

  • Steve Kostro, N2CEI
  • email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 Guidelines for Papers for Conference Proceedings

These are the guidelines from the ARRL--they do the publishing for us.  Proceedings are exclusively available from CSVHFS for two years. After that time, they are available from the ARRL ordering processing system.

  • The proceedings will be published in FULL COLOR!
  • All papers should be in electronic format.  Word is the preffered format as it allows format changes for printing requirements if needed.  We can also accept EXCEL, ACCESS and Power Point files, but will not publish Power Point files from your presentation unless included as part of the page text providing a full description.
  • Paper: Size should be 8½ by 11-inches.
  • Margins: Top and sides should be 0.75 inches; bottom must be 1 inch.
  • Type: You may use any font you’d like. The type should be clean and easy to read. (We usually use 12 pt Times New Roman.)
  • Layout: Either a one or two-column format is fine. (One Colum preffered.)
  • Page numbers: Do not include page numbers!!
  • Headers/Footers: You don’t need to add any. If you do include them, it’s likely they’ll be removed, or the page shrunk to include them.
  • Drawings: Drawings should be embedded in the papers.  Thin, light lines in drawings may drop out.
  • Photos: Color or black-and-white digital images, embedded in text. 
  • Printing: We print what we receive. We do not copy edit (but will correct something if we notice it – or if you notice it and let us know). We do try to make all papers somewhat uniform, but we do not redo each article. Page numbers are added by the printer.