Advance registration for those planning to attend the International DX Convention in Visalia, California, April 16-19, ends on April 8. An updated list of those already registered to attend is on the convention website!

The Visalia program includes DX University and Contest Academy sessions, ARRL, DX, and Contest forums, and a long list of DX and technical presentations, as well as an entire exhibition hall of displays and vendors. Jeanne Socrates, KC2IOV, will keynote the Saturday banquet. Socrates holds the Guinness World Record as the oldest woman to sail solo and nonstop around the world.

The Sunday DX Convention Breakfast speaker will be Bob Allphin, K4UEE, who will talk on the recent K1N DXpedition to Navassa Island. (Allphin also is scheduled to speak at the Friday Top Band Dinner about the team’s 160 meter experiences). More information is available on the convention website.

This year’s event will mark the 66th annual IDXC, sponsored by the Northern California DX Club (NCDXC). It will take place at the Visalia Convention Center.