NARA is set up at Hamcation, and we'd love to meet you face-to-face. We're dedicated to promoting amateur radio while empowering ham radio operators and clubs across the country. Whether you're already a NARA member or just curious about our work, we want to connect with you.

Hamcation brings together thousands of hams from across the nation, and it's a opportunity to have real conversations about the future of ham radio.

#hamcation #amateurradio #hamradio #hamradiocommunity #hamfest

I got my tickets to #hamcation in the mail Friday.

Anyone else going?

一度は行ってみたい Hamcation。

#アマチュア無線

Orlando #Hamcation 2025 - A walk-through the show https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=RQzCwWtzNDS28LGT&v=-3yw6U3I5aY&feature=youtu.be

For anyone who may not be aware. I volunteer with @HamRadioVillage (https://hamvillage.org/).

Our mission is to deliver high-quality and innovate amateur radio related educational content, hands-on experiences, and license testing sessions online and in-person through events. We believe that the more people know about amateur radio, the more safe, secure, functional, and innovative our wireless products, services, and experiments will be.

Our team of dedicated volunteers is responsible for generating all new research, giving talks and demonstrations at events, building and testing experiments, as well as offering support to the general ham radio community.

One of the bigger events we support is #defcon . Each year we bring in people to teach ham radio concepts and administer free licensing exams. We share the love of #hamradio with the #hacker community. At Defcon alone we have over 10,000 people flow through our village area, and administer the largest single-weekend testing session in the country each year - larger than #hamcation and #hamvention by significant margins.

Of course, this takes money. In the past 2 years we have been fortunate enough to be able to accept money from ARDC to help defray costs, but unfortunately that leaves us with a paperwork problem with the IRS. To maintain 501c3 educational status, we need to have a large pool of small donors - which is where the appeal here comes in. If you can spare a few dollars, we would appreciate helping to spread the love of #amateurradio to like-minded people everywhere. You can donate one time in any increment through our Zeffy link, and 100% of what you donate goes to the organization - even $5 will help. Alternatively, you can become a member and come enjoy #shenanigans on the air with us.

Either way, we'd love to see you follow our Mastodon page and/or join our Discord server.

Please, help us help the community.

Tags (because that's a thing): #stem #amateurradio #hamradio #rfshenanigans #cantstopthesignal #getradioactive

Mike’s Photos from Hamcation 2024!

https://swling.com/blog/2024/02/mikes-photos-from-hamcation-2024/

#2024Hamcation #2024HamcationPhotos #Hamcation #MikeVE3MKX