Spokane DX Association

Saturday night banquet speaker from Yaesu: K7BV Dennis Motschenbacher.

Sunday morning breakfast speaker and International Pirate N0AX Ward Silver (left) with ICOM representative N9JA Ray Novak (right).

The raffle ticket area.

Former SDXA Vice-President, Convention MC, & transceiver winner WX7B Chris Prichard (see next pix) with Trish.

Convention Chair K7TQ Randy Foltz (left) presenting Yaesu FT DX 3000 transceiver raffle prize to Chris (right and with the smile).

Convention Chair K7TQ Randy Foltz opening the convention.

A new winner of the PNW Challenge Cup, the competition between the leading PNW DX contest clubs. This year it was the newest of the clubs, the Orca DX and Contest Club from British Columbia. A writeup on the contest results is promised soon. SDXA Secretary and convention Reservations Manager WA0WWW Jay Holcomb (right) presents the trophy to Orca President and 2014 PNW DX convention Chair VE7VR Dave Johnson (left).

It was held at the home of Al Hiatt, W7AL near Sandpoint, ID on Saturday, August 24.

Part of the picnic group on the back deck of W7AL’s QTH

Al W7AL, Wayne WA1PMA, and Jay WA0WWW

Gary AD7XG listening to advice on how many towers to put on his new property

A new DX club has been formed near Lewiston, ID and will compete in the PNW DX Challenge Cup competition starting this next season. Because they are a new club, the decision was to add their score to that of the SDXA in the comptition. Members of the IDXA attended our recent DX convention and contributed an antenna as a prize. As they say on their website: The Idaho DX Association is a fully incorporated, non-profit, ARRL affiliated amateur radio organization formed in 2012. With a passionate interest in DX contesting, the IDXA club mission is to create unity among Idaho contesters, promote the spirit of amateur radio through respectful contesting, and to contribute to the overall goodwill worldwide.
Their site is at:
https://idxa.org/

Dan’s big 6-element 20-meter beam had its boom bent in the 60 MPH windstorm recently.

Dave AC7MV and Mary Beth AE7GT operated the ham station in the Queen Mary ship on Thursday, September 12th between 1 and 4 PM local time.

Mary Beth (AE7GT) & Dave (AC7MV)

More information on the Queen Mary can be found at this QUEEN MARY LINK.

Don K4ZA has a 2+ hour, 2-disk DVD set out that discusses what makes a proficient contester? What makes a good operator? For most of us, it takes years. Practice, participation and persistence are key factors. Contesters are a truly elite bunch who possess unique operating skills—things which we’re not born with and that are not covered or learned by reading any radio’s manual, or Handbook, or on the neighborhood repeater, or down at the local radio club. Using over 24 hours of raw material, K4ZA has edited and collected the experience, wisdom, and opinions of 50 of today’s contesters in one place. VP Randy K7TQ selected the best of the lot to make a one-hour program for the SDXA. More on this DVD set at this LINK.