Lamar Ray, WA7LT
2007 President
January through
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Gary Elliott, K7OX
2007 President, through December
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Kirk Mohror, K7EKM
2007 Treasurer
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Marybeth Snyder, KC7QGV
2007 Secretary
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Jay Holcomb
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Kirk Mohror
K7EKM
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Randy Foltz
K7TQ
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Gary Elliott
K7OX
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The 2007 Annual Awards Banque was held at the Perkins Restaurant & Bakery at 12 E. Olive in Spokane on Thursday, December 6, 2007. The doors opened up for a social at 6:00 and dinner was at 7:00.
Our program was DXing and Traveling in Syria by Al Rovner, K7AR, of Vancouver, WA. This presentation covered the YK9A DXpedition to Syria in February of 2001. The slide presentation and discussion covered the planning, logistics and operation of the expedition, plus visits to several historic and archaeological sites within Syria.
Here are some past images of Al.
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Al K7AR at the Montana station of W7LR in Bozeman.
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Al K7AR vacationing at Yellowstone.
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Al was licensed in 1971, and:
• is an avid DXer
• is a serious contester
• handles “Z†suffix QSL cards for the W7 QSL Bureau
• is an ARRL DXCC QSL card Field Checker
• has operated the Portland area packet cluster since 1993
• travels about once per year on a DXpedition or contest trip
• manages the NW DX Convention in Portland every third year
• runs DX Northwest at http://www.k7ar.net/
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Al works for Sharp Corporation as a software engineer and holds a BSEE degree from Drexel University and a MSCS degree from Oregon Graduate Institute.
Dinner was a buffet style meal consisting of ham and turkey, dressing and potatoes, coffee or tea, etc. for $14.50 which included the gratuity. At an added expense, the Restaurant provided individuals with beer, wine, or alternate beverages.
Plaques were presented to Lamar WA7LT as outgoing 2007 SDXA President, Wayne WA1PMA as SDXA DXer of the year, and Gary K7OX for his win in the September 2006 Salmon Run contest.
President …………. Gary K7OX
Vice-President …… Randy K7TQ
Treasurer …………. Kirk K7EKM
Secretary …………. Jay WA0WWW
2007 CQ 160 METER CONTEST RESULTS IN CQ MAGAZINE, DECEMBER ISSUE
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In the phone contest, Gary K7OX took top honors in the entire CQ Zone 3 and Washington state in the Single Operator, High Power category with 90,706 points from 610 QSOs. His showing netted him another plaque donated by N4TMW.
In the cw contest, Lamar WA7LT took top honors from Washington state in the Single Operator, High Power category for highest score of 141,470 points from 824 QSOs and wins a certificate. Gary K7OX took top honors from Washington state in the Multi-Operator category for highest score with 198,288 points from 890 QSOs and wins a certificate.
The SDXA took 43rd place out of 74 in the club competition where the scores of both the cw and phone contests were combined. All clubs compete equally; there are no club divisions as in the ARRL. Our club score of 541,439 was more than the either score from the Western Washington DX Club (333,363) or the Willamette Valley DX Club (62,959).
There were 9 entries in the combination of both contests from SDXA members. Congratulations to all.
cw results can be found at CW LINK
phone results can be found at SSB LINK
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TOWERS RISE AT K7AWB
THE EAGLE HAS LANDED AT K7AWB
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