HAMJAM 2015

HamJam 2015 will take place on Saturday, November 14th at the Metropolitan Club, 5895 Windward Pkwy, Alpharetta, GA.

NFARL and our sponsors are pleased to be able to present the event as a public service to the amateur radio community. We hope you will be able to attend and enjoy a morning of visiting with fellow hams, listening to and interacting with our speakers, and the potential to win one of our raffle prizes.

The event is open to all hams and admission is FREE thanks to the generosity of our sponsors … and your generosity in purchasing raffle tickets.

Speakers

This year’s speakers include Jamie Dupree, NS3T of Cox Radio, Mike Corey, KI1U of ARRL, and Glen Popiel, KW5GP!

Jamie Dupree, NS3T

Jamie Dupree, NS3T is the Radio News Director of the Washington Bureau of the Cox Media Group and writes the Washington Insider blog.
A native of Washington, D.C., Jamie has covered Congress and politics in the nation’s capital since the Reagan Administration, and has been reporting for Cox since 1989. Jamie has covered 11 national political conventions, with his first being the 1988 Democratic Convention in Atlanta.

Mike Corey, KI1U

Mike Corey, KI1U, joined the ARRL HQ staff in April 2010 as Emergency Preparedness Manager. Prior to joining League staff he worked in law enforcement in Indiana and Mississippi. He has also served as an emergency management volunteer, disaster response volunteer, reserve police officer, law enforcement academy and public safety instructor, and on emergency operations center staff. Mike has been licensed since 1988 and holds an Amateur Extra class license.

Glen Popiel, KW5GP

Glen Popiel, KW5GP of Southaven, MS is the author of ARRL’s “Arduino for Ham Radio”. By day, he is a Network Engineer and Technology Consultant for Ciber, Inc. and the Mississippi Department of Education, specializing in Open Source solutions. First licensed in 1973 as WN4FTX, and later WA4FTX, Glen holds an Extra Class license and has worked in the computer and electronics field for over 40 years. He is currently working with ARRL on a second Arduino book and other projects. His talk “High Adventure with the Arduino” will introduce the basics as well as many advanced uses of this incredible device.