GB2EMF at EMF 2014 Amateur Radio Village

There will be an amateur radio village at the Electromagnetic Field EMF 2014 event taking place 29-31 August 2014 at Bletchley near Milton Keynes

EMF 2014 is a festival for anyone interested in radio, electronics, space, homebrewing, robots, UAVs, 3D printing, DIYBio, Internet culture or pretty much anything else you can think of.

It is a volunteer effort by a non-profit group, inspired by European and US hacker camps like Chaos Communication Camp, HAR, and toorcamp.

Imagine a camping festival with a power grid and high-speed internet access; a temporary village of geeks, crafters, and technology enthusiasts that's lit up by night, and buzzing with activity during the day. Over a thousand curious people will descend on the friendly open space to learn, share, and talk about what they love.

Over a long weekend, you can expect to see a huge variety of talks across three stages, a slew of workshops, as well as music, games, and installations dotted around the site.

Attendees are invited to set up their own villages — camps within the camp — where like-minded people can camp together and put on their own activities. The hard-working EMF team of volunteers will supply you with power and internet to your tent.

The special event station GB2EMF will be run from the Amateur Radio Village, it had been hoped to have a 70cm/2m crossband FM repeater operational during the event but it looks as though Ofcom licensing issues may preclude this.

EMF 2014 takes place 29-31 August 2014 near Newton Longville, just South of Bletchley, Milton Keynes, MK17 0BU.

EMF Amateur Radio Village https://wiki.emfcamp.org/wiki/Villages:Amateur_Radio

Ham Radio Show Friedrichshafen a success

The Amateur / Ham Radio event in Friedrichshafen continues to grow, with over 17,000 visitors attending in 2014, up nearly two thousand from 2013.

Visitors to this years show also were able to take in Maker World, an event happening on the event campus at the same time.
 
Visitors to the Friedrichshafen Amateur / Ham Radio Show were treated to a launch of a balloon carrying an amateur radio transmitter.

USKA Friedrichshafen report (Google English) - http://tinyurl.com/Friedrichshafen-2014

EMCOMMWEST 2013 cancelled

There will be no EMCOMMWEST ham radio convention in 2013.

The board has been discussing the options for and fate of EMCOMMWEST 2013. It says that there have been many changes in the volunteer workforce during the past 12 months. This coupled with the small period of time between now and the traditional date of the event has led the Board to decide to forgo 2013.

The Board goes on to say that circumstances leading to this decision include the loss of several key volunteers; the continued inability to draw the major vendors and manufacturers to the show and the fact that little has been accomplished to make measurable progress toward event production for this year. It goes on to say that if there is to be an EMCOMMWEST in 2014 it may require a local club to take the helm and provide the much-needed volunteer base for the event.

EMCOMMWEST began in 1999 when a group of Northern Nevada amateur radio operators interested in improving emergency communications hosted the very first symposium that lead to the convention as it is today.

EMCOMMWEST 2013 - emcommwest.org