Guidance for CSVHFS Conference Presenters

As a member of the VHF/UHF/Microwave and Weak Signal Communities, we are seeking a great lineup of presentations to be provided at the event.  Your topic need not be published in the Proceedings to present it at the Conference.

SOLICITATION AND TOPICS

The 2025 Central States VHF Society Conference is soliciting presentations 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, Grid and DXpeditions
  • RF power amps including Single and Multi-band Vacuum Tube, Solid-state, and TWTAs
  • Propagation including Ducting, Sporadic E, Troposcatter, 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 presentations being sought. However, there are always exceptions.  Please contact the Proceedings or Presentation coordinators listed below if you have any questions about the suitability of a particular topic.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS

  • PROCEEDINGS

Submit your paper(s) to Steve Kostro at conferencepapers(at)downeastmicrowave.com no later
than June 14th 2025.

  • PRESENTATIONS

Coordinate your presentation with Steve Kostro at conferencepapers(at)downeastmicrowave.com
no later than July 11th  2025 

With coordination, presentations, and posters may be delivered at the conference.  However, presentations MUST be provided to the A/V team NO LATER than Friday morning, July 25th 2025 to be assembled before the start of the Conference on Friday afternoon. Earlier submissions are encouraged!

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

  • Submissions accepted via email, Dropbox, CD/DVD, USB stick/thumb drive, etc.
  • Check with the point of contact prior to submitting formats other than those listed.

COORDINATORS

PRESENTATIONS 

  • Steve Kostro, N2CEI
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PROCEEDINGS

  • Steve Kostro, N2CEI
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STYLE GUIDE

  •  Length of Technical presentations will vary depending on content.  Please provide estimated lenght of your presentation for proper scheduling.  Please state if you will not be available during any of the three sessions (Friday afternoon, Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon). Times may be adjusted individually as necessary and must be arranged BEFORE the Conference.

  •  To ensure that the audience can read your content your presentation’s fonts and text colors need to contrast significantly with the background color.  Keep the amount of text on a slide to a minimum for readability.

  • Microsoft PowerPoint is the preferred format.  

  • For presentations that consist of only pictures, a PowerPoint file containing the photos in proper order is suggested.
  • All presentations will be assembled onto a single laptop and tested to ensure that they work prior to the start of the conference.