Announcing the 2025 Orlando Contest Dinner Sponsored by Icom

Friday February 7th, 2025

The 2025 Florida Contest Group contest dinner will be held on Friday February 7th, 2025 at the American Legion Department of Florida building at 1912A Lee Road, Orlando, Florida 32810. The dinner will be barbeque served buffet style. Doors will open at 5:30 pm. Dinner will be served at approximately 6:30 pm.

The contest dinner grand prize will be an Icom 7610 transceiver donated by DX Engineering.

2025 Contest Dinner Speaker Jeff Steinman, N5TJ

The speaker for the 2025 Florida Contest Group Contest Dinner is Jeff Steinman, N5TJ from Austin, Texas. Jeff grew up in Missouri and began his contest career at K4VX/0. He has had a distinguished career in contesting, with three WRTC gold medals (1996, 2000, 2002) and one bronze (1990). Jeff’s partner in the 1996,2000 and 2002 WRTC events was Dan Street, K1TO. He holds the current SOABHP world record in CQWW SSB, set at EA8BH in 1999. He held the record in CQWW CW in the same category from 2000 – 2019.

Jeff is also an avid grid square chaser on 6 meters. He only needs a handful of grid squares to have all the 488 grid squares to earn the Fred Fish Memorial award. (FFMA) He’s achieved this using only a KPA500 amplifier and a Moxon antenna.

Jeff is retired and is presently working as a Sales/Technical Support Specialist for DX Enginering.