Spokane DX Association

Object: Stations outside of Washington work as many Washington stations in as many Washington counties (39) as possible. Stations in Washington work anyone in as many states, Canadian call areas, and DX countries as possible.
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Dates: September 18-19, 2010

Many members of the SDXA entered the Salmon Run contest this year hoping to win the SDXA sponsored plaque. Unfortunately for them, the SDXA plaque was won by Gene Bye W7WMO (non-member of SDXA) again. This is Gene’s 4th win since the plaque was initiated in 2003. It was a very close race between Gene and Gary K7OX, Gene winning by only 744 points. The plaque is given for the highest score in the EWA Section running in the Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed Mode category. Gene is from Ephrata. He won it in the first two years that the plaque was offered by our organization as well as in 2007. His 2010 score was 172,264 points and 34 WA counties from a combination of 384 CW QSOs and 124 phone QSOs. He did an expedition to Ferry County for the contest. Congratulations again, Gene.

Gary K7OX
highest score from Spokane County
297 CW QSOs
218 phone QSOs
29 WA counties
171,520 points
Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed mode

Wilse WX7P
highest score from Stevens County
673 phone QSOs
47 digital QSOs
31 WA counties
135,492 points
Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed mode

George W6AEA
458 CW QSOs
11 phone QSOs
3 digital QSOs
19 WA counties
159,110 points
Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed mode

Gary K7GS
338 CW QSOs
19 WA counties
95,140 points
Single Operator, Low Power, CW mode

Jay WA0WWW
178 CW QSOs
156 phone QSOs
5 digital QSOs
15 WA counties
67,316 points
Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed mode

Vern N7GTW
76 phone QSOs
26 WA counties
5,060 points
Single Operator, Low Power, Phone mode

Cynthia KE7ZDJ
91 phone QSOs
29 WA counties
9,236 points
Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed mode

Randy K7TQ
Highest QRP score from out of WA state (in Idaho)
95 CW QSOs
24 WA counties
9,620 points
Single Operator, QRP Power, CW mode
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Dates: September 19-20, 2009

Gary K7OX
won the SDXA sponsored plaque for highest score in the EWA Section using Low Power, mixed mode, Single Operator
highest score from Spokane County
495 CW QSOs
172 Phone QSOs
1 digital QSO
22 WA counties
261,236 points
Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed mode

SDXA President Kirk K7EKM (left) presents 2009 plaque to Gary K7OX (Alpha hat)

At the February, 2010 SDXA meeting, Gary K7OX received his SDXA-sponsored plaque for having the highest score in the EWA Section, Single Operator, Mixed Mode, Low Power category. This has not been Gary’s first win of this plaque. He won it in 2005 and 2006. Congratulations, Gary!

Vern N7GTW
124 phone QSOs
33 WA counties
10,168 points
Single Operator, Low Power, Phone mode

phone only,Kirk K7EKM
63 phone QSOs
1 WA county
3,024 points
Single Operator, Low Power, Phone mode

Wilse WX7P
highest score from Stevens County
852 phone QSOs
50 digital QSOs
30 WA counties
171,360 points
Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed mode

Dave N7DRK
201 phone QSOs
22 digital QSOs
35 counties
32,349 points
Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed mode,

George W6AEA
416 CW QSOs
13 WA counties
120,308 points
Single Operator, Low Power, CW mode,

Bob AC7GP
43 phone QSOs
16 digital QSOs
2 WA counties
4,500 points
Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed mode
operated from Stevens County
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Dates: September 20-21, 2008

WILSE WX7P IS PRESENTED 2008 SDXA SALMON RUN PLAQUE FOR TOP SCORE IN SO, EWA,LP, MIXED MODE CATEGORY AT 2008 SDXA AWARDS BANQUET

SDXA President Gary Elliott presents plaque to Wilse WX7P
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WX7P 2008 Salmon Run plaque up close and personal

Wilse WX7P from Rice, WA (Stevens County) won the SDXA sponsored plaque for the highest score in the EWA Section running in the Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed Mode category. His 2008 score was 124,992 points from a combination of 50 digital QSOs and 644 phone QSOs. His score was also highest for Stevens County. Congratulations, Wilse. Wilse is a member of the SDXA and President of the PARC, Panoramaland Amateur Radio Club up North.

Dave N7DRK from Rice also was the other entrant from Stevens County. He made 25,352 pints in the Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed category. Dave recently joined the SDXA in November.

Gary K7GS made 49,940 points in the Single Operator, Low Power, CW only category to take high score for Spokane County.

Jay WA0WWW was second highest in Spokane County in the Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed category with 42,716 points.

Gary K7OX was third in Spokane County with 37,176 points in the Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed catehory.
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Dates: September 15-16, 2007

Gene W7WMO (non-member of SDXA) from Ephrata won the SDXA sponsored plaque for the highest score in the EWA Section running in the Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed Mode category. This was Gene’s third win of this plaque. He won it in the first two years that the plaque was offered by our organization. His 2007 score was 104,140 points from a combination of 242 CW QSOs and 89 phone QSOs. He did an expedition to Ferry County for the contest. Congratulations again, Gene.

Randy K7TQ won the WA state Single Operator QRP category for the second year in a row. Randy made all CW contacts and had a score of 67,768 points from 241 QSOs. Randy also won with the highest score in Spokane County. Congratulations Randy. Share the salmon with us please.

RANDY K7TQ WITH SALMON PRIZE IN BACKGROUND

Jay WA0WWW had the second highest Spokane County score with 16,302 points from a combination of 51 CW QSOs and 107 phone QSOs. He was in the Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed category. He won 1st place for Spokane County mixed mode.

Wilse WX7P entered the Single Operator, High Power, Mixed Mode category and scored a lot of points from his endevor from Stevens County. He took top honors in the county for high score. His total of 238,732 points came from 1226 phone QSOs and one CW QSO. Guess which mode Wilse favors?

For a write-up on the contest, go to this LINK.

For all the WA state entries, go to this LINK.
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Dates: September , 2006
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Gary K7OX (right) receives his 2nd SDXA sponsored Washington State Salmon Run plaque from SDXA past President Steve K7AWB (left) at the 2007 Annual Awards Banquet.

SDXA member and founder Gary K7OX won the SDXA sponsored 2006 Salmon Run plaque and took top honors including highest score in the state for a non-club entry with 172,800 points!! The plaque was for the highest score in the mixed (CW & SSB) , low power, single operator category, in the EWA Section. This was his second year in a row of winning the plaque.

Randy K7TQ won for the highest QRP score in the state with 58,640 points.
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Dates: September 17-18, 2005

SDXA member and founder Gary K7OX won the SDXA sponsored 2005 Salmon Run plaque and took top honors including highest score in the state for a non-club entry with 170,154 points!! The plaque was for the highest score in the mixed (CW & SSB) , low power, single operator category, in the EWA Section.

Gene W7WMO had won the plaque for the last two years, putting to shame the SDXA and its club members who sponsored the plaque.

Congratulation Gary; it was a tough battle, both in the contest and having your entry “lost” in Western WA for a while. Oh, of course, Gary won Spokane County in the same category, too.

The Salmon Run is a September contest held every year. SDXA members should sharpen their antennas for that.

Another SDXA member George W6AEA made 2nd highest score from Spokane County with his 18,600 points in the same category as Gary.

The entire results are available from this WWDXC link: 2005 SALMON RUN
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Dates: September 18-19, 2004

Steve K7AWB took 1st place in Spokane County with 97,600 points in the Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed category.

Gary K7OX took 2nd place in Spokane County with 83,904 points in the Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed category.

The Club gave a plaque for the top score in the EWA Section, Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed category which went to Gene W7WMO of Ephrata, WA for the second year in a row.

Here is a SHORT HISTORY LINK to the history of the contest.
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Dates: September 20-21, 2003

The SDXA decided to sponsor a winner’s plaque for the 2003 Salmon Run contest on September 20-21. The Salmon Run is the modern name for the annual QSO party from Washington state, sponsored by the Western Washington DX Club – W7DX. Everyone in the world tries to work Washington State hams, and we try to work everyone, especially those less populated counties in the state. Our sponsored plaque would be for the highest score for a single operator running low power in the Eastern Washington ARRL Section (EWA).

The EWA section consists of basically the 20 most Eastern counties in Washington ranging from the Canadian border to the Oregon border.

The winner was W7WMO Eugene (Gene) Bye of Ephrata, WA. As Gene said, “I was operating from a campsite at Swan Lake, south of Republic, the antenna was a dipole strung in the trees about 35 feet high and fed with open ladder 450 ohm line and antenna tuner, the rig was a battery powered IC-706. The antenna was up as high as I could get it with my fishing reel sling shot.”

The glove was thrown down to all SDXA members for next year’s contest as Gene said, “Tell the club I will be out to defend my title next year and to round up some competition for the 2004 SR.” This means that more of our SDXA members should plan to participate in the next Salmon Run and move the title closer to home. We will arrange to present the plaque to Gene in person at a future SDXA meeting if he can make it up here from Ephrata; otherwise, we will mail it to him.

Congratulations to Gene for his win of 84,416 points from Swan Lake in Ferry County.

Randy K7TQ made 62,772 points in the Single Operator, QRP, CW category and took top QRP honors for Washington State. He operated from Garfield county.

Steve K7AWB got 100 points and was top score for Spokane County. He was in the Single Operator, Low Power, Phone category.

Bill K7EFB got 260 points from Whatcom County and placed 2nd there in the Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed category.
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Dates: September 20-21, 2002

Steve K7AWB had high score in all categories for Spokane County with 36,848 points from 233 QSOs in the Single Operator,Low Power, Phone category.

Gary K7OX made 30,800 points from 202 QSOs in the Single Operator, Low Power, Phone category to take 2nd place in Spokane County in all categories.

Randy K7TQ had high score in all categories for Asotin County with 28,908 points from 134 QSO in the Single Operator, QRP, CW category. This made Randy top score in Eastern Washington in the QRP category.
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