Spokane DX Association

this coming weekend (January 4-5)is the 4th contest in the season that is part of the PNW CHALLENGE TROPHY COMPETITION. this is the traveling trophy between 6 (yep a new one) NW DX clubs:

– BC DX Club http://www.bcdxc.org/
– Idaho DX Association https://idxa.org/PNWDX.html ß new this year
– 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/

T h e 2 0 1 4 A R R L R T T Y R o u n d U p C o n t e s t

RTTY: 04-05 january 2014
Starts 1800 utc saturday = ends 2400 utc sunday
here are the RULES LINK.

for the latest PNW Challenge Trophy Cup rules and more information on the trophy competition, they are on our SDXA web site at TROPHY LINK.

the usual: no one should be concerned about how big your score is, if you can get on and make some Qs and have some fun, they all count. there is always a great possibility to pick up a new entity or at least some new band/mode entities.

reporting deadline:

All entries are must be postmarked or e-mailed by 2359 UTC Tuesday, February 6, 2014.

Entries in electronic format may be submitted to [email protected].

remember: be sure your claimed scores get to wa0www for the challenge cup. e.g. if you post to SDXA google group, I will pick it up there.

new point: Doug and ionly need your claimed score, just the number, and calls for a multi-op. you don’t have to send us logs or do any attachments. if you want to do a quick copy paste of the band/mode/points/multiplier table into the email that would be fine, it is fun to see how everyone did on different bands.

have fun and good DX.

73 wa0www jay W
SDXA secretary

President Chris Pritchard WX7B

Vice-President Gary Bytnar AD7XG

Treasurer Gary Swartout K7GS

Secretary Jay Holcomb WA0WWW

K7SDX with the Panoramaland ARC operated at the QTH of Lynn N2HS; entered the 2A category with 1358 points from 369 QSOs. 25 people operated during the event. Here is a summary of how our SDXA organization did. We operated in conjunction with the Panoramaland ARC up North.

3rd out of 4 in EWA Section in 2A category
10th out of 24 in EWA Section in all categories

19th out of 30 in NW Division in 2A category
78th out of 205 in NW Division in all categories

281st out of 398 nationally in 2A category
1270th out of 2548 nationally in all categories
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BOB N7AU PRESENTED A PROGRAM ON THE INSTALLATION OF HIS 130 FOOT TOWER AND OTHER CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS AT HIS EPHRATA QTH

GENE BYE W7WMO WINS SDXA-SPONSORED PLAQUE FOR HIGHEST SCORE IN EWA SECTION, LOW POWER, MIXED MODE, SINGLE OPERATOR CATEGORY. THIS IS THE 5TH TIME GENE HAS WON THE PLAQUE. GENE IS FROM EPHRATA AND OPERATED FROM HIS GRANT COUNTY.

JUST TO SHOW THAT GENE IS AN OLD TIMER, HERE IS MY CARD FROM HIM DATED JANUARY 25, 1958:

SDXA member winners:

JAY WA0WWW wins with highest score in Spokane County with 73,075 points

DAVE WD7K wins with highest score in Stevens County with 65,300 points and had a clean sweep of all 39 WA counties

CHUCK KI7DG wins with highest score in Okanogan County with 180,284 points and was top dog in the Single Operator, High Power, SSB category in the entire state

MARK KB7HDX wins with highest score in Yakima County with 119,916 points

Here are the winners of the SDXA-sponsored plaque since the beginning:

2003-2004-2007-2010-2013 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