Microwave Update 2014

Microwave Update 2014

Fellow Microwavers and Microwave EME'ers, Microwave Update 2014 is just over 4 weeks away, October 24-25, 2014, in Rochester, NY!

The list of registered, attendees is growing daily- check the website http://www.microwaveupdate.org to see the list so far and to see who of your friends will be here. If you are planning on coming to the, conference and haven't registered yet, what's keeping you?

If you've registered for the conference but haven't yet reserved a room at the hotel (the Rochester Marriott Airport), please think about doing that sooner rather than later. The block of rooms at the MUD special price of $109/night will go away October 3. It's likely that rooms will still be available, but at a higher price. The link and phone number for reservations at the hotel is on the website: http://www.microwaveupdate.org

There will be the usual Saturday night banquet and it should be a lot of fun- Frank and I are working with the hotel to have some excellent choices for dinner, we'll have an interesting keynote speaker, and the pile of door prizes is growing daily! By the way- if you want to donate something as a door prize, it would be greatly appreciated and you'll get special recognition for your donation.

As we've mentioned before, we did uncover a possible problem with hotel reservations. We discovered that the link on the website was incorrect and if you tried to navigate through it, you would have trouble and think the hotel is full. So, we corrected the link on the MUD website and you should be able to easily access it and get the MUD room rate. If you had trouble reserving a room and didn't get the $109 rate, please let us know and the hotel has promised to fix it for you. Also, if you had trouble and decided the hotel was full and made a reservation someplace else, please let us know that and we'll do our best to correct it, as well. We want as many attendees staying at the hotel as possible, since there will be plenty of activities besides the conference presentations that we feel you won't want to miss.

The list of presenters (so far) is also up on the website. There will be many interesting talks and a virtual tour of the University of Rochester Laser Lab for Energitics (where some extremely high tech work is taking place). Thursday arrivers can join us for a tour of the Antique Wireless Association museum in Bloomfield, NY on Thursday afternoon between 1 and 5pm. In addition to their standard displays of early radio, TV, and electronic gear, the AWA has promised us a show geared towards our part of the spectrum- the microwaves, with displays of early microwave gear, tubes, etc. It should be a lot of fun! The AWA recently moved into a completely new location and they have lots of floor space and all new displays!

Keysight Technologies (the old H-P/Agilent) will be at the conference. They will be doing two presentations, each of which should be quite educational. In addition, they will be bringing their latest microwave instrumentation to measure Noise Figures on Friday (and if we can talk them into it, Saturday night.

That's it for now- all of us in the Rochester VHF Group are looking forward to seeing all of you at this year's MUD conference! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us and we'll do our best to take care of you.

73
Dave K2DH
Frank K2OS
MUD2014 Co-Chairmen






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