Spokane DX Association

Congratulations to Bob Zavrel (W7SX)on the release of his Antenna Theory book 2nd edition which was released two days ago. The first edition went through 4 printings. It is being used as a reference by EE students in advanced Antenna theory courses, practicing radio engineers, and of course radio amateurs.

“Introduction to RTTY Contesting Workshop”

Monday, September 21st at 7 PM on Zoom

The primary audience is those new to RTTY and RTTY Contesting or new to N1MM+.

“Using N1MM+ in RTTY Contesting Workshop”

Thursday, September 24st at 7 PM on Zoom

Randy will demonstrate on his screen how he sets up and uses N1MM+ in RTTY Contests.

Bob Lee (N7AU) won the Zone 3 CQ WW 160 meter Contest Plaque with the top score in this zone. This is a wonderful accomplishment from the Pacific Northwest.

We have finished the 2019-2020 Flounders Cup Competition. Randy (K7TQ) has published the final report. Congratulations to both Randy (K7TQ) 1,210,083 points and Gary (K7GS) 1,033,821 points. Enjoy reading Randy’s excellent anaylsis.

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Bob (N7AU) petting his rebuild 4 element SteppIR antenna back on one of his towers.

Bob made a bracket, the piece on top of the boom that straps to the boom. The bar on the bracket on top is adjustable to find the center.

Using the ATV to pull the antenna up

The antenna going up the tower

The antenna almost ready to attach

Jay (WA0WWW) repainting his SteppIR antenna. Notice the nice raising fixture for his crankup tower.

Bob finished the tower/antenna installation today on his 6 meter antenna. It is an M2 5 element 6 meter Yagi, on which he modified the driven element into a folded dipole and then fed it with 450 ohm ladder line.

This tower/antenna is at one the peaks on his property and the base is anchored in a granite outcropping…all guy anchors are also in granite.

Picture 1: construction and mounting of the base plate…..extra heavy hinge is two telescoped pipes welded to the base and the tower base (standard Rohn backed with 1/4 inch steel plate.

Picture 2: Kubota delivering the top section from the shop 400 feet down

Picture 3: tower lowered

Picture 4 tower raised with the winch on the Kubota.

The tower is 30 feet but it is at the top of the property with steep drop-offs in most directions.

Looks like Murf’s (N7UVH) Hytower is putting out some RF

Field Day for 2020 was different than most years.

Jim (N7ESU), Bob (K7TM) and Murf (N7UVH) aka “Idaho Renegades” did Field Day from a Fire Station in Hayden Lake.

John (K7KM), Janet (WX7P), Mike (K7STO), Chuck (KI7DG) and Mel (N7GCO) used N3FJP Club logging to keep in touch.

Dale (AF7WH), a member of our user group from CDA, has an impressive Drake collection. Using his Drake radios he has achieved WAC, WAS and DXCC. He almost has WAZ. His new goals are 5BWAS all on Drake equipment of course.

Here is a photo of his Drake Tube Line (TR3, 4, & 6)

Here is a photo of his Drake Solid State Line: