Spokane DX Association

THE 2016-2017 PNW CHALLENGE CUP TROPHY WAS WON BY THE WILLAMETTE DX CLUB OF PORTLAND

SEVERAL OF OUR SDXA MEMBERS WON SIGNIFICANT PRIZES

NEXT YEAR’S CONVENTION IS IN VANCOUVER, BC IN AUGUST

MANY THANKS TO THE IDAHO DX ASSOCIATION FOR THEIR CO-SPONSORSHIP OF THE CONVENTION

PICTURES FROM THE CONVENTION:

Chuck Williams KI7DG was MC and Announcer for the convention.

The A/V men: Mel Ming N7GCO and Del Morissette WA7AQH.

Rick Roderick K5UR, President of the ARRL, presenting “The DXCC Program.”

Jay Townsend WS7I presenting “Remote RTTY Contesting from W4AAW.”

The Willamette DX Club wins the Challenge Cup Traveling Trophy for the ten-contest event between PNW DX Clubs. IDXA President Emmett Mccormick NA7EM presents the trophy to WVDXC President Mike Ritz W7VO.

Super raffle ticket salesman Dale Avery WU7X sells multiple strips of raffle tickets. He was a “go-getter” in this endeavor.

SDXA President Chris Pritchard WX7B chats with Goeff Howard W0CG/PJ2DX/PJ2T. Geoff was one of the seminar presenters.

SDXA President Chris Pritchard WX7B presents a special plaque to Convention Chairman Randy Foltz K7TQ for thanks for the convention.

Gary AD7XG doing the climbing

BRINGING DOWN THE STEPPIR DB12 BEAM
AT MARK K7HPT’S QTH FOR A SWR PROBLEM

Here is Gary AD7XG on the way up the Rohn 45

The beam is down and a lonely tower

The crew, left to right: Mark K7HPT, Randy W7TJ, and Gary AD7XG. Photographer Steve K7AWB behind the camera.

He took his novice test from Al William Beck W7EQM in Page, Id. He received his KN7AWB license on July 29, 1957 in Osburn, ID. Al’s initials are AWB and that is lottery odds that Steve’s call contain Al’s initials, a long time before vanity licensing. Here are a couple of photos from that era.

An Allied Radio Knight Kit T-50 transmitter, a National SW-54 receiver, and a Heath Kit Q-multiplier. On top of the receiver is a grid modulator I built from the Handbook to get on AM phone. The wall proved incapable of holding all the QSL cards eventually.

A little later, He had upgraded to a Central electronics 20A SSB transmitter, converted his T-50 transmitter to a 50 watt amplifier for the 20A, and converted his Knight Kit VFO to a 9MHz output for the 20A. A Heath Kit Grid Dip Oscillator and phone patch were added along with the super Hallicrafters SX-99 receiver.

Gary AD7XG shows off his Yaseu FTDX1200 transceiver recently won at the 2017 PNW DX Convention in Spokane

His term starts now and ends with calendar year 2017; Bob is also our Net Control for the SDXA DX Net on 145.25 MHz the 3rd Thurday of each month at 7 pm

Bob and his wife Diane at the
SDXA Awards Banquet

Bob shows off his plaque for the 5BDXCC

Bob helping take down the towers at WA7LT’s

7QP LINK
Pat Murphy N7UVH from Post Falls ID wins the SDXA-sponsored plaque for the highest single operator digital score. He also set the record for the highest low-powered digital score in the history of the contest. Congratulations Pat!

Early 2018

Bouvet Island is the second most wanted entity from information on Club Log.

You can prepare for them! There is enough time to consider more, better, and higher antennas. How about some more power? A new Transceiver?

◾Most Wanted Rank: 2
◾CQ zone: 38
◾Continent: AF
◾Primary prefix: 3Y/B

Below info courtesy of bouvetdx.com site

Bouvet lies at 54 degrees, 25 minutes South and 3 degrees, 22 minutes East. It’s the product of a volcanic eruption that last occurred in 4,000 B.C. Bouvet is 97% ice covered, and with surrounding rocks and small islands, has an area of 19 square miles, with 18.4 miles of coastline. Its location, ice, rock cliffs, high seas, harsh climate and surrounding pack ice and icebergs isolate it from human presence. Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier first saw the island in 1739. The island was not seen again until 1808. There was a disputed landing by Benjamin Morrell. But, the first documented landing was by the Norvegia expedition in 1927, which named the island Bouvetoya, and claimed it for Norway.

Sometime between 1955 and 1958, a landslide occurred, creating a rock-strewn, ice-free area on the northwest coast. The area was named Nyroysa, and subsequently became a Norwegian scientific and research site, which was decimated by an earthquake in 2006. A new research facility was erected in 2014.

Bouvet became a Nature Reserve in 1971. Several weather stations have been placed on the island, and a number of Norwegian expeditions have visited the island in the last 50 years. The island has hosted several previous DXpeditions, including:

•LH4C by W4BPD in 1962 – No documented landing.
•3Y3CC and 3Y1VC by LA3CC and LA1VC in 1977.
•3Y5DQ and 3Y1VC 1978-79 by LA5DQ and LA1VC.
•3Y5X by LA2GV, LA1EE, JF1IST, F2CW, and HB9AHL in 1989.
•3Y2GV by LA2GV in 1997.
•3YØC by N4BQW in 2000.
•3YØE by ZS6GCM in 2008.

Like most DXpeditions, they are heavily funded by our donations. This may be the most expensive DXpedition ever! Here is a 3Y0Z LINK to their website and further donation information.

40 CONTINUOUS YEARS PIN AWARD PIN

Congratulations Chuck!

REMEMBER THE STORY OF THE ARRL DELETING TWO COUNTRIES, POSSIBLY CHANGING YOUR DXCC TOTALS?

Well, they have rescinded their original action and reinstated the two counties back to ACTIVE status. If you previously worked any of them, you should check your DXCC totals on LOTW and on the ARRL DXCC web pages to confirm everything is back to “normal.” Your logging program may have updated your totals so check those totals too.

ARRL ARTICLE

THANKS TO FOR HIS PRESENTATIONS ON ANTENNA PHYSICS AT THE MAY AND JUNE MEETINGS

Bob discussed beverage receiving antennas, antenna aperture, radiation resistance, and many antenna topics of interest to the members. Bob is the author of the ARRL book entitled; Antenna Physics: An Introduction.

Randy K7TQ Certificate

Steve K7AWB Certificate

Here is a LINK to Randy’s story on his Rover travels.

TOM FLINT
KC7UG
EPHRATA

BOB ZAVREL, JR
W7SX
SPOKANE

ANTENNA PHYSICS: AN INTRODUCTION

Bob is author of this modern book, published by the ARRL (and available from them or Amazon or other sources).

These two books are free.

1. K1TTT David Robins: BUILDING A SUPER STATION
713 pages – The history of building the K1TTT amateur radio super station in Peru, Ma. 30 Years of building, re-building, changing and improving plus lots of visitors and events. You purchase it at $0.00 which means free!

Free PDF download to your computer at this K1TTT LINK.

2. G3TRP Trevor Preece: THE THE VHF/UHF DX BOOK, 2017 Replica Edition
The VHF/UHF DX Book was written in the early to mid-1990s by a team of experienced VHF/UHF DXers and equipment developers, in an effort to pass on our knowledge and stimulate further developments. Looking back, that plan worked very well… for a time. But as we entered the digital age, information of lasting value became trapped on the printed pages and was lost to the next generation of VHF/UHF DXers. To keep that information alive, this digital replica of the Second Printing dated 1995 has been released by kind permission of the copyright owner TRPublishing and its proprietor Trevor Preece G3TRP.

Free PDF download to your computer at this G3TRP LINK.