The 35th annual Trenton Computer Festival, to be held April 24 -25, will also be the venue for the ARRL New Jersey State Convention!

The 2010 ARRL New Jersey State Convention, sponsored by the Delaware Valley Radio Association (www.w2zq.com), will be held on Sunday, April 25th, at the same venue as the Trenton Computer Festival and admission to one event gets you access to both.

As part of the NJ ARRL Convention, multiple “tracks” of ham radio presentations are scheduled including:

  • ARRL National Traffic System Digital Messaging
  • Marketing Ham Radio – How You Can Help it Thrive Today
  • A Brief History of the International Telegraph Code
  • Contributions made to Wireless Communication by G. Marconi
  • Weird Antenna Projects of New Jersey
  • The Modular Rover
  • Getting Started in VHF & VHF Contesting
  • WSPR-ing on the HF Bands
  • Automatic Packet Reporting System
  • From Zone 2, Canada, This is VE2DXY — A Ham Radio Contest DXpedition
  • AMSAT – Computer History in Satellite Tracking
  • AMSAT – Open Source Software Defined Radio
  • ARRL Forum
  • EMP & Emergency Communications – Article winner of QST’s 2009 “Bill Orr Award”
  • VE Testing Sessions

And, of course, there will be many other technical sessions on computers and electronics. See www.tcf-nj.org for them all and the Saturday evening banquet.

There will be a large indoor and outdoor (rain or shine) flea market / vendor area for you to pick up goodies for your shack and your computer. The flea market will host both commercial and non-commercial sellers so if you’d like to convert some of the technical “treasures” in your attic or basement into cash for new rigs (or dinner out) bring them down and pass it on.

In addition we’re offering VE sessions for initial licenses or license upgrades. A ham radio “boot camp” is planned for Saturday for those who are not yet licensed. If you apply yourself, it’s possible to get a Technician class ham license in one day! You can bring along a friend who’s expressed some interest in ham radio and there’s a good chance he or she will be going home a new ham!

The site for the TCF / ARRL NJ State Convention is The College of New Jersey, 2000 Pennington Road, Ewing, NJ. The event runs 10 AM – 4PM both days. Talk-in 146.67 PL131.8. Admission for Sunday only is $10. Two day tickets are $15 at the gate or $12 advance purchase. Indoor Vendor area tables are $150; buy 5 tables and 6th is free. Commercial vendor Flea Market Spots are $70 for 9’x16’ or $100 for tent-sized 14’x16’. Non-commercial Flea Market spots are $35 for both days.

For additional vendor information, email email hidden; JavaScript is required. For Advanced Ticket Sales, go to www.tcf-nj.org. For additional info, email email hidden; JavaScript is required or contact Mark Bespalko, N2KIV at 215-359-7025.

Thanks & 73