Saturday Night Banquet - 2008

The SEA-PAC banquet is a time to reacquaint yourself with hams from around the division, the nation and the world.

Banquet Prize - There will be two special prize drawings for banquet attendees. The banquet prizes are an Icom IC-V82 (D-Star) 2m HT and a
Kenwood TH-K2AT 2m HT.

Return of Stanley Hamm - Canceled - Unfortunately, Stanley Hamm will not be able to appear at this year's convention after all.

Win two free tickets to the Banquet - Are you creative? Do you have an artistic side aching to be expressed? Enter our SEA-PAC Pin Design Contest and you could win two free tickets to the Saturday Night Banquet, plus fame and admiration from all of your fellow HAMS.

Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH is our ARRL speaker for 2008 at the SEA-PAC Banquet.

Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH, Special Counsel for the Spectrum Enforcement Division of the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau, will be the banquet speaker at the 2008 SeaPac ARRL Northwest Division Convention banquet on Saturday, May 31. Hollingsworth is well known to the amateur community and draws large and enthusiastic audiences.

Hams across the US have credited Hollingsworth with helping to reduce malicious interference and other problem behavior, both on and off the air.

A native of South Carolina and a ham for 48 years, Hollingsworth holds an Advanced class ticket. He's a graduate of the University of South Carolina and Wake Forest University Law School--where he was the president of the Student Bar.

Now an FCC veteran, Hollingsworth, 61, previously served in several prominent positions within the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. In 1987, he managed the FCC 800-MHz Lottery Task Force. From 1989 to 1994, he served as deputy chief of FCC Private Radio Licensing and later was assistant bureau chief in the WTB. In 1992, Hollingsworth was a member of a US Department of State delegation to Romania to discuss radio licensing in the US and opening markets to US manufacturers. In 1994, he co-chaired an FCC task force on PCS broadband and narrowband licensing.

Hollingsworth joined the former Compliance and Information Bureau as Legal Advisor for Enforcement in 1998 and became Special Counsel responsible for Amateur Radio enforcement and Land Mobile interference resolution within the FCC's Enforcement Bureau.

Hollingsworth is a member of the ARRL and the Quarter Century Wireless Association. In 1996 he received the Special Achievement Award at the Dayton Amateur radio convention. He also enjoys collecting vintage Amateur Radio equipment and has set up several older transmitter-receiver combinations at his home along with his modern gear.