Spokane DX Association

Wilse WX7P at his new FT-2000 transceiver during the recent 2009 CQ WPX phone contest.

Object: The objective of this contest is for amateurs around the world to contact other amateurs in as many U.S. states, Canadian provinces, and countries as possible on the 160 meter band using ssb mode.
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Dates: February, 2010

Steve K7AWB
10,044 points
125 QSOs
Single Operator, Low Power
1st in Washington in category

Wilse WX7P
59,580 points
397 QSOs
Assisted
1st in Washington in category

SDXA was 72nd out of 99 in the club competition with 284,721 points
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Dates: February, 2009

Lamar WA7LT
105,927 points
676 QSOs
Single Operator, High Power
1st in Washington
2nd in Zone 3

Steve K7AWB
21,032 points
208 QSOs
Single Operator, Low Power
1st in washington category
wins a certificate

Jay WA0WWW
2,014 points
51 QSOs

Wilse WX7P
50,436 points
390 QSOs
Assisted
1st in Washington in category
wins a certificate

SDXA was 58th out of 96 in the club competiton with 489,766 points.
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Dates: February, 2008

Results in: CQ Magazine, December, 2008

Gary K7OX won top score in Washington State with 113,340 points from 817 QSOs in the Single Operator, High Power category and won a certificate.

Wilse WX7P made 14,112 points from 146 QSOs also in the Single Operator, High Power category.

Wayne WA1PMA made 2,940 points from 36 points also in the Single Operator, High Power category.

Jay WA0WWW made 2,310 points from 46 QSOs in the Single Operator, Low power category.

The SDXA took 68th place out of 87 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 215,090 was less than the either score from the Western Washington DX Club (403,641), the Willamette Valley DX Club (296,864), or the British Columbia DX Club (477,633).

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Dates: February 24-25, 2007

Results in: CQ Magazine, December, 2007

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.

Steve K7AWB took 2nd in Washington state in the Single Operator, High Power category with 45,792 points from 343 QSOs. He operated from the station of WA7LT.

Jay WA0WWW made 1,462 points from 34 QSOs in the Single Operator, Low Power category.

Wayne WA1PMA made 15,600 points from 152 QSOs in the Multi-operator category.

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).

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Dates: February 25-26, 2006

Results in: CQ Magazine, December, 2006

Lamar WA7LT took 2nd place in Washington state behind K7RL. Lamar had 68,400 points from 477 QSOs in the High Power, Single Operator category.

Steve K7AWB made 1,278 points from 34 QSOs in the Low Power, Single Operator category.

Gary K7OX took 2nd in Washington State in the Multi-operator category with 27,888 points from 243 QSOs.

Wayne WA1PMA took 3rd in Washington state in the Multi-operator category with 23,700 points from 200 QSOs.

The SDXA took 44th place out of 76 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 503,760 was more than the either score from the Western Washington DX Club (334,392) or the Willamette Valley DX Club (383,094).

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Dates: February 26-27, 2005

Results in: CQ Magazine, December, 2005

Congratulations to Lamar WA7LT for his First Place finish in the Single Operator, High Power category for CQ Zone 3 in the contest. According to the article starting on page 16 of the December, 2005 issue of CQ Magazine, Lamar edged out W7DX (The Western Washington DX Club) by 72 points in a contest marked by a number of hotly contested close ones. The Washington race was the closest of the lot and Lamar’s hard work paid off with 101,376 points from 672 QSOs! He will receive a plaque for his Zone 3 effort. He also won First Place in Washington State in his High Power category. Congratulations, Lamar!

Congratulations to Gary K7OX for his First Place finish in the Single Operator, Low Power category in Washington State in the contest. According to the article in CQ Magazine, Gary had 36,120 points from 276 QSOs! Congratulations, Gary!

The 2006 contest details can be found at the CQ Magazine website.

The SDXA took 47th place out of 65 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. We made 328,074 points.

WA7LT

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Dates: February 28-29, 2004

Results in: CQ Magazine, December, 2004

Lamar WA7LT had the high score for Washington State in the Single Operator, High Power category with 85,248 points from 586 QSOs. This was also the high score for the 7th call area and CQ Zone 3, which resulted in a plaque. Congratulations Lamar.

Steve K7AWB had 5,916 points from 78 QSOs in the Single Operator, Low Power category.

Gary K7OX had the high score for Washington State in the Multi-Operator category. He had 90,182 points from 599 QSOs and won a certificate. Congratulations Gary.

The SDXA took 47th place out of 69 in the club competition where the scores of both the cw and phone contests were combined with a score of 343,787 points. All clubs compete equally; there are no club divisions as in the ARRL.

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Dates: February 21-22, 2003

Results in: CQ Magazine, December, 2003

Gary K7OX took 1st place in Washington State in the Single Operator, High Power category with a score of 48,950 points from 393 QSOs. Congratulations Gary.

Steve K7AWB made 2,832 points from 50 QSOs in the Single Operator, Low Power category.

There was no club entry for this contest this year.

Dan N5AR’s Hinks and Kinks presentation on May 7th is available as a PowerPoint download with audio. It is about 123 Meg and takes about 2-30 minutes to download it on a broadband connection. To view it, download it to your computer and SAVE it. Then view it with your PowerPoint Reader, which is a free download from Microsoft. To access the N5AR file to download, click on N5AR LINK. To download a free Microsoft PowerPoint Reader, click here: POWERPOINT VIEWER 2007

per the announcement:

CQ ANNOUNCES 2009 HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

(Dayton, OH – May 15, 2009) — CQ magazine today
announced its 2009 Hall of Fame inductees,
welcoming 15 new members into the CQ Amateur
Radio Hall of Fame, two new members of the CQ DX
Hall of Fame and one new member of the CQ Contest Hall of Fame.

The CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame honors those
individuals, whether licensed hams or not, who
have made significant contributions to amateur
radio; and those amateurs who have made
significant contributions either to amateur
radio, to their professional careers or to some
other aspect of life on our planet. The 2008
inductees (listed alphabetically) are:

Baker, Bill, W1BKR – President Emeritus, WNET-TV
(Thirteen), New York PBS flagship station.

Barton, Loy – Developed class B plate modulation,
primary method of modulating tube transmitters for decades.

Bauer, Frank, KA3HDO – NASA Chief Engineer for
Exploration Systems; International Chairman,
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
(ARISS), 1996-2009; AMSAT VP Human Spaceflight, 1991-2009.

Bridges, William, W6FA – Laser pioneer; developed
first “noble gas” lasers (argon, krypton, xenon)
and the dominant modulation system for feeding
data into fiber-optic cables; Professor Emeritus of Engineering at CalTech.

Fernandez Martin, Fernando, EA8AK – Member of the
European Parliament, representing Spain; former
President of the Government of the Canary
Islands, former President of URE (Spanish IARU organization).

Floyd, George, WA4DGA (SK) – Author of “Scratchi”
column in CQ over four decades. An engineer and
executive at General Electric, he also wrote the
“Lighthouse Larry” column in GE employee newsletters.

Haseltine, Eric, AB3DI – Former Associate
Director of National Intelligence for Science and
Technology; former Director of Research, National
Security Agency; former Executive Vice President
of Research and Development, Walt Disney Companies.

Hollingsworth, Riley, K4ZDH – Former Special
Counsel for Amateur Radio, Federal Communications
Commission. “Cleaned up” the ham bands after 15 years of neglect by the FCC.

Kilby, Jack – Inventor of the integrated circuit,
which revolutionized electronics, including amateur radio equipment.

Krischke, Alois, DJ0TR – Prolific German author
of antenna books. Rothammels Antennenbuch, a
1000-page reference showing virtually every
amateur radio antenna ever designed, is in its 12th edition.

Maxwell, Walt, W2DU – Antenna designer
(specializing in spacecraft communications) and author.

Miller, Lt. Gen. Thomas, K4IC (SK) – Deputy Chief
of Staff for Aviation, USMC (1975-79) – in charge
of all Marine Corps aviation; “father” of
short-takeoff & vertical landing (STOVL) aviation
in the USMC. Close friend of Sen. John Glenn;
quietly watched out for amateur radio interests on Capitol Hill.

Morgan, Wilse, WX7P- Conducted first amateur
radio license exam session under the Volunteer
Examiner program in 1984; helped get VE program
approved; also designed innovative antennas.

Parise, Ron, WA4SIR (SK) – Astronaut and active
ham in space. First ham to operate packet radio
from space and pioneered “telebridge” concept for
making more frequent school-shuttle contacts
possible. Also helped develop Radio JOVE,
educational program for monitoring natural radio signals from Jupiter.

Whitehead, Clay, W6WW (SK) – First Director of
the White House Office of Telecommunications
Policy in the 1970s; reshaped America’s
television landscape by bringing competition to
the domestic satellite market and making it
feasible for cable companies to distribute their own programming via
satellite.

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Gary K7OX made 83,040 points from 519 QSOs for a full sweep in the Single Operator, Unlimited category. He had the highest score in the EWA Section and 1st in Single Operator, Unlimited category; 21st out of 89 in Northwestern Division. For other results, see LINK

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