Welcome to the Spokane DX Association  

Serving Eastern Washington and North Idaho

SDXA INFORMATION

Here is a PDF that tells about the SDXA — SDXA Information

Next SDXA Programs

These two have done many Dxpeditions and bring great insights.
Bob and Al will be sharing about their two person DXpedition to Vanuatu. Many of us worked them.
Come and hear all about it.


June 23-25, 2023

SDXA Field Day


This year the Idaho Renegades (Jim N7ESU, Bob K7TM and Pat N7UVH) are leading the SDXA Field Day at Hayden Lake, ID.
Jay WA0WWW is leading the radios, computers, and logging software.
Gary AD7XH and Mike K7STO are leading the antenna teams.

July 22, 2023

SDXA Summer Picnic with Mobile and Portable Show and Tell

We will be meeting at the home of Del (WA7AQH) and Diane Morissette, on the river at Nine Mile Falls. Diane’s gardens were featured on the 2018 Inland Empire Garden Club’s annual Spokane in Bloom garden tour.
The address is:
12405 N Nine Mile Rd
Nine Mile Falls WA 99026

The club will be providing the main entrée and providing plates, silverware, napkins and cups.
Club members are asked to bring:

Please bring your own beverages. Since we are at a home for the picnic, it is fine this year to bring wine and beer, if that is your beverage of choice.

Upcoming SDXA Programs

August 3, 2023

World Radio Team Championship & IARU Report with Geoff PJ2DX

The 2023 WRTC is held at the same time as the IARU Contest. The WRTC occurs every 4 years and the best contesters in the world are invited to participate. It is the OLympics for Ham Radio Contesters. This year the WRTC will be held in Italy in July.

Our own Geoff PJ2DX will be serving as a referee. Geoff will be sharing a first-hand report of this year’s WRTC.

September 7, 2023

Improving your  Audio with Mike Daskalopoulos KJ6MIC

Audio basics, speech intelligibility and perceived loudness

Audio as it applies to voice modes in radio – AM, SSB and FM

Audio reproduction and transmission for radio – hardware and pre/post-processing

 

 

 

October 5, 2023

Annual Awards Dinner

December 7, 2023

Basic Station Automation Techniques & Recommendations

With Bob N6TV

All of us want to make our stations more effective. Bob N6TV will be sharing a presentation from the 2023 Contest University at Dayton.

 

 

 

 

 

 

SDXA DX NETS

 

SDXA Officers

President – Randy Foltz (K7TQ) — Million Point Club, Club Contests, and User group
Vice President – Mel Ming (N7GCO) — User Group, YouTube Channel, & Webmaster
Secretary – Jay Holcomb (WA0WWW) — Contests & Spokane Hamfest
Treasurer – John Gager (K7KB) — Finance Team, Membership & Webmaster
Past President — Gary Bytnar (AD7XG) — Card Checker

SDXA Leaders & Activity Teams

Club Log – Pat (Murph) Murphy (N7UVH)
Contesting – Randy Foltz (K7TQ) & Jay Holcomb (WA0WWW)(PCNW Trophy Cup)
DXing –  Bob Hallock (K7TM), Mike Buettner (K7STO), & Mel Ming (N7GCO),
DX Awards – (100 Country Club & Challenge Award) Mike Buettner (K7STO)
DX Net – Pat (Murph) Murphy (N7UVH)
Finance Investment Team – John Gager (K7KB),  Gary Swartout (K7GS), Del Morissette (WA7AQH)
Groups.io User group – Randy (K7TQ), John (K7KN), Gary (K7GS), Mel (N7GCO)
Health and Welfare of Members – Gary Swartout (K7GS)
Historian – Steve Sala (K7AWB)
Hybrid Meetings – Brandon Childs (W7BKS)
K7SDX Trustee – Mike Buettner (K7STO)
Media – Brandon Childs (W7BKS)
Meeting Refreshments – Mike (K7STO) and Bob (N7AU)
Meeting Room Setup —  Gary Bytnar (AD7XG) team leader
Membership – John Gager (K7KB)
Million Point Club – Randy Foltz (K7TQ)
New HF Mentoring – Del Morissette (WA7AQH)
Programs — Jay Lopes AC7DC
QSL Card Checker — Gary Bytnar (AD7XG)
Spokane Hamfest – Jay Halcomb (WA0WWW)
Spokane DX YouTube Channel – Mel Ming (N7GCO)
Technical – Gary Swartout (K7GS), Jeff Banke (NZ2S)
Webmasters – John Gager (K7KB) & Mel Ming (N7GCO)

MOST WANTED LIST (TOP 25)
FOR NORTH AMERICA, WEST COAST
AS OF September 9, 2022

  1. FT5/W CROZET ISLAND
  2. P5 DPRK NORTH KOREA
  3. 3Y/B BOUVET ISLAND
  4. FT/G GLORIOSO ISLAND
  5. SV/A MOUNT ATHOS
  6. YK SYRIA
  7. FT5/X KERGUELEN ISLAND
  8. 3A MONACO
  9. BV9P PRATAS ISLAND
  10. ZS8 PRINCE EDWARD & MARION ISLANDS
  11. EZ TURKMENISTAN
  12. BS7H SCARBOROUGH REEF
  13. CE0X SAN FELIX ISLANDS
  14. PY0T TRINDADE & MARTIM VAZ ISLANDS
  15. T5 SOMALIA
  16. 5A LIBIA
  17. YV0 AVES ISLAND
  18. AP PAKISTAN
  19. VK0M MACQUARIE ISLAND
  20. 3Y/P PETER 1 ISLAND
  21. VU7 LAKSHADWEEP ISLANDS
  22. ZC4 UK BASES ON CYPRUS
  23. PY0S SAINT PETER AND PAUL ROCKS
  24. FT/T TROMELIN ISLAND
  25. ET ETHIOPIA

This list is taken from the ClubLog MOST WANTED section using filtering for North America, NA West Coast, all bands, all modes. The ClubLog list covers all 340 entities. ClubLog is free to join with many SDXA members joining.

DXPEDITION SOLICITATIONS

ALL DXpedition funding requests are to be in writing to the club’s mailing address. Since funding is limited, in this manner, our DXpedition funding committee can give your request the consideration it deserves.

SOLAR ACTIVITY AND PROPAGATION SECTION


For additional info, try this SOLAR LINK for everything you ever wanted to know about the current Sun at the SolarHam site by VE3EN
Link to SPACEWEATHER.COM, a quick source for the daily activity on the sun
Link to NOAA SPACEWEATHER
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SDXA CALENDAR

2022

JOIN THE SDXA

Regular dues – $20 per person.
Second family member – $10.
Under 19 years of age are free.
DUES LINK.
We accept PayPal too.


Gary Bytnar AD7XG


Recent News


Chuck’s KI7DG Tower and Antennas are now all working

Mike K7STO made a new controller for Chuck’s crank-up tower. It is beautiful workmanship. Today Mike drove over to Okanagan and met Joe KF7PBM and they installed it. Here are a couple of photos:

SDXA Incentives

SDXA has Awards that are for accomplishments over several months.  We also have Incentives that are focused on single contests or events.  The second SDXA Incentive is: Work World Radiosport Team Championship Stations In 2023 the World Radiosport Team Championship (WRTC) will be during the IARU contest, July 8 and 9.  There will be over […]

First SDXA Hybrid Meeting

The May 2023 SDXA meeting was the first attempt at a hybrid meeting. Brandon W7BKS  did a great job of putting it all together and pulling it off. The next hybrid meeting is scheduled for November

Tower & Antenna Repair for KI7DG

On April 27th we had a great work crew go over to Chuck’s KI7DG in Okanagan to work on his tower and antennas. They were able to repair Chuck’s 160-meter inverted V, replace a VHF/UHF antenna, repair a multiband vertical, remove an unwanted mast, fix or replace some guy lines, and begin replacing the motor […]

International DX Convention Visalia, CA

Here are the three amigos (Bob N7AU, Mike K7STO and Woody N7HCJ) with John Mertel at his SteppIR booth. Also at the 2023 convention from the SDXA are Rob N7QT, Robbin WA7CPA, and Art K6XT. I heard Rob’s “DXing with FT8” presentation was fantastic! He also did a presentation on “T88WA DXpedition To Palau”

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