Four workshops were planned for Friday, June 5th, 2026, upstairs in the Convention Center. All workshops require registration. Sign up when you register for the convention.
The morning session will include several presentations and discussions on emergency communication techniques. The afternoon features a hands-on sandbox exercise where you will use various stations and learn by doing.
Build your very own 3-element 2-meter Tape Measure Yagi antenna — a great hands-on project for young and old. You will be guided through the assembly process. Then put your creation to work in the afternoon by joining the Hidden Transmitter Hunt and finding the foxes around town! If you just want to learn more without building, you are welcome to join us as well.
Assemble an Arduino-based Morse Code Tutor — including some soldering — built around a Cheap Yellow Display (CYD) with an ESP32, plus a daughter board with speaker, battery, and key jack. A great hands-on build session for youth and adults alike.
A note from the Seminar & Workshop Coordinator:
Thank you for enrolling in the Morse Tutor workshop for June 5, 2026. Reluctantly, we must postpone the workshop until 2027. Several factors played into the hard decision. First, the instructor had to drop out due to other commitments. Lack of an instructor made the workshop close to untenable. That fact was the major factor but not the only issue we faced. Second, we needed to modify the software written by W8BH so it worked with a touchscreen. At the time he wrote the software, touchscreens of an appropriate size were not readily available at a nice cost. Third, despite our efforts to modify the software (which was getting close but not solved) we hit up against part delivery uncertainty. And fourth, we still had to write the construction document to guide you on the project that has about forty components.
We plan to continue the necessary software modifications, thoroughly assess the modified software, and test the construction documentation once written. We apologize for the disappointment. We plan to have the project ready well before the 2027 Convention and will present the workshop at that time.
A brief description of the Morse Tutor: the design uses a Cheap Yellow Display (CYD) 320×480 display that also contains an ESP32 microcontroller, an SD card slot, Wi-Fi, and other components. The project entails building a daughter board that includes a speaker, battery, and a jack for a morse key (not included). Assembly requires soldering about sixty connections on the daughter board, then using the Tutor to practice copying or sending Morse code. For me, that will be an improvement at my approximate speed of 3 WPM with gaps in my alphabet comprehension. Your mileage may vary.
You have three options for your fee:
Please respond to seminars@seapac.org with your preferred refund option by 9 PM PST on May 24. Refunds will be processed on May 25.
Note that there are other activities that take place on Friday, June 5 that you might consider attending as you make your decision:
Again, our apologies for the postponement.
Delvin Bunton, NS7U
SEA-PAC Seminar & Workshop Coordinator
A hands-on session presented by Yaesu representatives on their new repeaters and related radios. Get up close with the latest equipment and learn directly from the manufacturer.