Coming up on Saturday February 24, 2018, will be the 4th Annual TECHCON, the West Central Florida Section Technical Conference. The conference will be held at the Polk County Emergency Operations Center, 1890 Jim Keene Boulevard in Winter Haven, FL. The location is actually between Winter Haven and Lakeland in Polk County just off of State Road 540. The doors will open at 8:00 A.M., and the conference will begin at 8:45 A.M., with the first presentations beginning at 9:00 A.M. For more information go to the TECHCON page on the Section website at http://arrlwcf.org/wcf-special-events/wcftechconference/. If you are planning on attending, please register so we will know about how many will be in attendance. Registration and attendance at TECHCON is free. There will be a Friday Evening Social, the evening before TECHCON, on February 23, 2018, from 6:00 P.M. until 9:00 P.M., at the Sonny's BBQ restaurant, 4600 Recker Highway, in Winter Haven, FL., a few miles from the Polk County Emergency Operations Center. Our special guest speaker from ARRL HQ will be Bob Allison WB1GCM, the Assistant ARRL Lab Manager. Bob does many of the product reviews in QST Magazine. Flyers for the conference and a list of nearby restaurants and lodging has just been uploaded to the TECHCON page on the Section website: http://arrlwcf.org/wcf-special-events/wcftechconference/. 73 de Darrell KT4WX -------------------------------------------------------------------- ARRL West Central Florida Section Section Manager: Darrell Davis, KT4WX kt4wx@arrl.org