New Mexico TechFest

Rocky Mountain Ham Radio, New Mexico is pleased to announce the 2025 New Mexico TechFest, an ARRL-sanctioned operating specialty event, on Saturday February 22, 2025 at the UNM Continuing Education Conference Center in Albuquerque, NM (1634 University Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87102).

New Mexico TechFest is a hybrid event: Both in-person and, for those unable to travel or attend in-person, online via Zoom’s professional webinar platform.

Join fellow amateur radio operators from around the Land of Enchantment (and beyond) for a day of quality presentations, demonstrations, and instruction provided by some of New Mexico and Colorado’s most experienced technical hams on a variety of emerging and relevant technical topics within amateur radio today. The New Mexico TechFest is designed to provide a unique opportunity for all hams interested in the technical aspects of our hobby to advance and expand their technical knowledge and to facilitate technical discussion, collaboration, and discuss ideas with one another.

Ham-specific and presentation-related prizes will be drawn throughout the TechFest event. Coffee, water, and light snacks will be available for in-person attendees.  An optional, catered lunch will be provided to in-person attendees who purchase one.

Mark your calendars, spread the word, and join us for TechFest 2025!

TechFest Presentation, Posterboard, and Demo Lineup and Schedule

(Times shown are MST.  Schedule times and order of presentations are subject to change.)

• 8:00am: Doors open, in-person registration check-in (no walk-ins permitted)
• 8:30-8:45am: TechFest kickoff, welcoming comments
• 8:45-9:00am: Overview of presentations
• 9:00-9:50am: Presentation #1 (will be updated once 2025’s presentation lineup is announced)
• 10:00-10:50am: Presentation #2 (will be updated once 2025’s presentation lineup is announced)
• 11:00-11:50am:Presentation #3 (will be updated once 2025’s presentation lineup is announced)
• 12:00-12:50pm: Lunch, attendee collaboration, demonstrations, and posterboards
• 1:00-1:50pm: Presentation #4 (will be updated once 2025’s presentation lineup is announced)
• 2:00-2:50pm: Presentation #5 (will be updated once 2025’s presentation lineup is announced)
• 3:00-3:50pm: Presentation #6 (will be updated once 2025’s presentation lineup is announced)
• 3:50-4:15pm: Final prize drawings, closing comments
• 4:15-5:00pm: Open forum for TechFest attendees to collaborate

POSTERBOARD TALKS:

• Will be updated once 2025’s posterboard lineup is announced
• Interested in providing a posterboard talk at TechFest? Please contact us at techfest@rmham.org

DEMONSTRATIONS:

• Will be updated once 2025’s demonstration lineup is announced
• Interested in providing a demonstration at TechFest? Please contact us at techfest@rmham.org

»»» A link for presentation, posterboard and demonstration abstracts and speaker biographies will appear here once 2025’s lineup has been announced

Register to Attend the New Mexico TechFest

TechFest admission is $15, payable via online registration. Pre-registration is required to attend (sorry, walk-up registrations cannot be accepted).

What are New Mexico TechFest proceeds used for?

• • • Cost of all-day venue rental
    • Cost of license for professional Zoom webinar license to enable hybrid format
    • Purchase of coffee, water, and light snacks
    • Purchase of prizes (donations are increasingly hard to come by for many businesses given economic and supply chain challenges)
    • Cost to ship/deliver prizes to their lucky winners, as needed
    • Remaining proceeds are applied directly to the continued expansion of RMHAM’s 5-GHz multi-megabit amateur radio microwave network/backbone, an infrastructure that enables partnered amateur radio clubs to expand their repeater capabilities.

2025 TechFest Prize Lineup and Contributors

We are excited to give away a number of purchased and donate prizes at this year’s event. Because this year’s event will be hybrid (in-person and virtual), we will ship/deliver prizes to their lucky winners as needed.

Rocky Mountain Ham Radio and the New Mexico TechFest wishes to recognize and thank the following prize donors:

• ARRL
• Additional prize donors will be added here.

Interested in donating a prize to the New Mexico TechFest?  Please contact us via email at techfest@rmham.org.  Rocky Mountain Ham Radio is a 501(c)(3) charitable non-profit organization and donations are tax-deductible.

Event Flyer

A printable event flyer is available for posting on ham listserves, within your club’s newsletter, or on your club’s website. Please help us spread the word across the amateur radio community about this unique event.

»»» Download and help pass around the New Mexico TechFest flyer.

Call for Presentations and Important Dates

The New Mexico TechFest seeks high quality presentations and demos on emerging and relevant amateur radio technical topics, techniques, and applications. Original content highly encouraged. Hams interested in conducting a TechFest presentation or demo should submit a summary/abstract of their proposed topic to techfest@rmham.org for consideration. Please note the following:

• Call for TechFest presentations, posterboards, and demos: December 1 thru January 25, 2025
• Deadline to submit summary/abstract of proposed presentation, posterboard, or demo: Saturday January 25, 2025
• Summaries/abstracts reviewed by TechFest committee, presentation lineup finalized: Sunday, January 26, 2025
• TechFest presentation lineup announced and posted on website: On/about February 1, 2025
• TechFest online registration opens: On/about February 1, 2025
• Presentation slots are generally 50 minutes in length, including all anticipated discussion and Q&A.
• More than one presentation or demo proposal may be submitted for consideration.
• Sales and promotional presentations are not permitted.

For inquiries or to submit your technical presentation abstract, please email us at techfest@rmham.org