The annual crowning ham radio event that is the Dayton Hamvention occurred last weekend. There are so many forums that, even if you are present at the event, you can’t physically attend every interesting presentation. No worries though, as most of them are recorded and posted on YouTube. You can find the Dayton Amateur Radio Association’s DARA Hamvention YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@DARAHamvention
If you want to watch every presentation, you can zip though the daily livestream recordings at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM_NXI3v5F_zrnlb_0yTZ8G58tNaNQQcG. If the DARA team continues as in previous years, all of these day-long livestream recordings will be divided into individual video presentations.
If you want to see which presentations have been cut into individual videos, you can check here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM_NXI3v5F_yh9rw2_0Oae8xnFW2W1KSM.
In addition to the videos in the screen shot above, here are a few of the titles posted as of this writing:
*Ham RFI Starting Point
*Making an Expert System
*Choking Without Suffocating
*Predicting HF Propagation
*Summits on the Air
*LICW and Renaissance of Morse Code
*The Future of Ham Radio Through AI
*Amateur Radio Pico Balloons Advancement
The Hamvention program was filled with presentations on just about every topic in ham radio. If you can’t find your favorite topic in the individual videos, you may need to zip through the livestreams.
Of course, if you follow a ham radio YouTuber who attended Hamvention, they likely have multiple videos from the event. If you want to hear some local views on Hamvention, check with Steve KD1O. At least for those of us who keep saying, “Maybe next year,” we don’t have to miss out on the most up-to-date information.
Written by Marion WGRL
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