Archive for March, 2013

PNW DX CHALLENGE CUP COMPETITION

Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

Next contest (10th of 10) starts on July 13. It’s the IARU HF CHAMPIONSHIP contest.

Here are the 10 contests in date order and links to the rules. Additional information on how the competition works and past results are at the link on this page on the right side under PNW Challenge Cup.

SDXA, at the annual Winter Awards Banquet, gives out a nice certificate for any member who enters all ten contests. Your score does not have to be huge to enter these contests and list your results. And the member who gets the highest total score from the contests they enter gets a special certificate!

Send your CQ contest results to the following THREE locations:

WA0WWW Jay[email protected] – tracks individual SDXA member results for the Challenge Cup competition

W3AS Doug[email protected] – submits list of SDXA eligible members to CQ Publications

CQ Publications [email protected] – sponsors the contest; see contest rules for submission guidelines

CONTEST LISTING IN DATE ORDER

1. September 29-30, 2012: CQ WW DX RTTY LINK completed

2. October 27-28, 2012: CQ WW DX SSB LINK and more at this LINK completed

3. November 24-25, 2012: CQ WW DX CW LINK completed

4. January 5-6, 2013: ARRL RTTY RU LINK completed

5. February 9-10, 2013: CQ WPX RTTY LINKcompleted

6. February 16-17, 2013: : ARRL DX CW LINKcompleted

7. March 2-3, 2013: ARRL DX SSB LINK completed

8. March 30-31, 2013:CQ WPX SSB LINK completed

9. May 25-26, 2013: CQ WPX CW LINKcompleted

10. July 13-14, 2013: IARU HF CHAMPIONSHIP LINK

THE CONTESTANTS:

The traveling trophy competition is between these five NW DX clubs:

– BC DX Club http://www.bcdxc.org/
– Orca DXCC Club (new) http://www.orcadxcc.org/
– Spokane DX Association https://sdxa.org/
– Western Washington DX Club http://www.wwdxc.org/
– Willamette Valley DX Club http://wvdxc.org/dotnetnuke/

March 2013 Minutes

SDXA minutes 2013 March 7

2013 Officers

Here are the officers for year 2013.

PRESIDENT WAYNE WA1PMA (left) and VICE-PRESIDENT RANDY K7TQ (right)

This is Wayne’s third year as President; Randy served two terms in the 2004-2005 era.
wa1pma at gmail.com; rbfoltz at gmail.com
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SECRETARY JAY WA0WWW

Jay receives the 2011 SDXA DXers of the Year award.
wa0www at hotmail.com
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TREASURER GARY K7GS

Gary receives a certificate for his score in the 2012 local SDXA Marathon.
k7gs at msn.com