All: I recommend this as an effort worthy of contributing to for Amateur Radio posterity - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hamradio2/2019-tapr-dcc-videos The ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC) is not a hamfest, nor a social event. It's an International, TECHNICAL conference for digital communications in Amateur Radio. It's a great conference and I highly recommend attending it even if you have to travel at some expense. You'll meet a lot of interesting people, you'll have fascinating conversations that you probably wouldn't ever have at any other event, and you'll hear it first about interesting new developments in Amateur Radio digital communications. The 2019 DCC (https://tapr.org/dcc) will be the 38th consecutive DCC. This year it will be held in Detroit, Michigan. If you are interested in attending, Detroit (DTW) is one of the cities with a direct Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle. I think it's important that the presentations at the DCC be video recorded - this is really, really good information, and I've observed that there's a lot more information conveyed during the presentation than what's in the formal paper proceedings. Video recordings of the DCC are not done, nor funded by ARRL, TAPR, or the conference. The video recordings of the DCC have been an independent effort, funded independently. In 2018, and again in 2019, Jason Johnson KC5HW of the Ham Radio 2.0 YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/kc5hwb/featured) will be recording the DCC. In 2018, Jason proved that he was up to the task of recording, editing, and posting the videos of the DCC (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs_Ab58w9LI-p-j9C3uN8TjKh2SeKlIvp). I think Jason did a great job despite never having done a video recording project that large before. So, I'm in on Jason's Kickstarter for the 2019 DCC - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hamradio2/2019-tapr-dcc-videos - for $100. Jason's Kickstarter goal is to raise $2200 ($716 to date), which I think is quite reasonable. It takes a LOT of equipment, and a lot of time to edit this much video. Jason's Kickstarter ends on September 6, 2019. Please consider contributing to make the valuable presentations at the DCC widely available within Amateur Radio. Please share this, especially with your own endorsement, to other groups / lists that are relevant to the Digital Communications Conference. Thanks, Steve Stroh N8GNJ -- Steve Stroh (personal / general): stevestroh@gmail.com