The annual Pacificon℠ Banquet includes a sit-down dinner, with an excellent meal, including your choice of Beef, Chicken, Salmon or Vegetarian for $59.00 per ticket.

The banquet sells out early - if you want to attend, purchase your tickets with your attendance registration to reserve your spot! Space is limited.

Ham Radio is Dying … or is it?

So many people say that very thing these days: Ham Radio is Dying. I hear it at least once a month. But it doesn’t have to be this way, and we are the ones to keep this from happening. I’ll take you through some of my experience of 40 years in The Hobby, where we find ourselves today, and how we can shape the future. We have been given a precious gift in our Amateur Service. Let’s make it something we enthusiastically nurture and take forward into the next century of radio.

Kristen McIntyre, K6WX
Kristen McIntyre, K6WX, has been interested in radio since she was about 5 years old. She started in Amateur Radio in 1979 getting her ticket while at MIT. Kristen has worked in many diverse areas from analog circuit design to image processing to starting and running an ISP. She is currently working at Apple in Core Networking, and spent many years at Sun Microsystems Laboratories where she was researching robustness and emergent properties of large distributed computer systems. She is a long time denizen of Silicon Valley and has worked at or consulted for many of the usual suspects. Kristen is an active ham and loves to chase DX on HF with her Elecraft K2 which she built while visiting her mother in Florida. She is ARRL Pacific Division Director, president of the Palo Alto Amateur Radio Assoc., the Q&A columnist for Nuts and Volts magazine, and is active in many local clubs. Kristen was recently inducted into the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame.

Biography

Kristen McIntyre, K6WX, has been interested in radio since she was about 5 years old. She started in Amateur Radio in 1979 getting her ticket while at MIT. Kristen has worked in many diverse areas from analog circuit design to image processing to starting and running an ISP. She is currently working at Apple in Core Networking, and spent many years at Sun Microsystems Laboratories where she was researching robustness and emergent properties of large distributed computer systems. She is a long time denizen of Silicon Valley and has worked at or consulted for many of the usual suspects. Kristen is an active ham and loves to chase DX on HF with her Elecraft K2 which she built while visiting her mother in Florida. She is ARRL Pacific Division Vice Director, president of the Palo Alto Amateur Radio Assoc., the Q&A columnist for Nuts and Volts magazine, and is active in many local clubs. Kristen was recently inducted into the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame.