Spokane DX Association

Club Log is a web-based application that analyses log files from radio amateurs all over the world. Using the logs, Club Log offers you a wide range of reports for your own benefit, and identifies large scale trends from the sum of all activity in the database. According to Michael G7VJR, Club Log author, if you participate in Club Log by uploading your log you will receive:

◾Personal DXCC reports and league tables
◾Detailed analysis of your log, using researched DXCC information
◾Zone charts for your log, again based on detailed research
◾A personal timeline of your activity (DXCCs per year, band and mode info)
◾Your own log search tool, eg. to link from your web page or QRZ profile
◾A filtered DX Cluster which only tells you about DX you still ‘need’
◾A say in the Club Log most wanted report: your log is part of the trend data
◾Access to propagation and activity predictions, using everyone’s logs
◾QSL suggestions to help you send out just the cards you need
◾Satisfaction from taking part in and improving a free DXing resource.

If you use the OQRS system of using PayPal to pay the fee to DXpeditions for their QSL cards, without sending yours (they surely don’t need 100,000 cards anyway), then you are familiar with Club Log as many of the DXpeditions use it to store their logs for matching to your entries. If you are a member of Club Log and have your log uploaded, you do not have to enter the data for each contact to a DXpedition to prove you made the contacts, but merely use Club Log to match the contacts.

SDXA member Chuck William KI7DG has volunteered to be our SDXA Club Log Manager. To join the SDXA for Club Log, Chuck say to do the following after joining Club Log with your call and a password:

1. log your self into Club Log
2. click on “Settings” at the top
3. click on “Clubs” near the top in red
4. scroll down the club list to our club and click on it
5. on bottom of list, click on “Join Club(s)”
6. so I know to approve you, send me an email [email protected]
7. Club Log also sends me an email which I approve and
8. you are added to our SDXA portion of Club Log
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We have a new winner for the SDXA-sponsored Salmon Run plaque this year. Rick Werner K7UK of Walla Walla won our plaque with his high score from the EWA ARRL Section using the mixed mode, low power, and being a single operator. Rick’s score was 77,595 points, but only 2,270 higher than Gene W7WMO who has won the plaque four times already. Rick also had high score for his county of Walla Walla too. Rick just sent me a picture of him and his station and I’m glad to see it’s a WSU shirt and not that other place from the wet side. Rick said that his modest station, that was used during the Salmon Run, was a Kenwood TS-570D running barefoot 100w into a 80m Compact Carolina Windom or 40m Full Wave Delta Loop.

This is the plaque Rick received. Congratulations, Rick!
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Here are the winners of the SDXA-sponsored plaque since the beginning:

2003-2004-2007-2010 W7WMO Gene Bye from Ephrata
2005-2006-2009 K7OX Gary Elliott from Spokane County (SDXA member)
2008 WX7P Wilse Morgan from Rice (SDXA member)
2011 W7YKM Rick Olsen (N6NR) from Tieton
2012 K7UK Rick Werner from Walla Walla
2013 WILL YOU BE LISTED HERE??

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Chris KL9A

Chris has moved to Bozeman. He was an Assistant Manager at the West Francis Rosauers in Spokane until recently. We hope that your stay in MT is productive and gives you the time to continue your great contesting skills.

2013 February Minutes