His term starts now and ends with calendar year 2017; Bob is also our Net Control for the SDXA DX Net on 145.25 MHz the 3rd Thurday of each month at 7 pm
Bob and his wife Diane at the
SDXA Awards Banquet
Bob shows off his plaque for the 5BDXCC
Bob helping take down the towers at WA7LT’s
New card checker Gary AD7XG (left side) checks his first pile of cards from Jay WA0WWW
ARRL AWARDS:
Information on how to contact our local card checkers is on the ARRL card checker web page. To access the contact information, use this CARD CHECKER LINK. This database includes their phone numbers, email, and home addresses.
All card checkers can check DELETED COUNTRIES, but only those who themselves have a 160 meter DXCC can check other’s 160 meter cards (none at this time in this area). All these checkers can check DXCC, WAS, WAC, and VUCC cards.
ARRL DXCC online application system
Rather than downloading the form and filling it out manually (with a pen), you go to the ARRL website and access the form on your computer and fill in the details there. Your entry, if not finished, is saved on the ARRL computer servers for additional entries until you are finished. I have an unfinished entry now and add cards to the list as they come in the mail. When you are finished entering and ready to submit to a checker, you fill out the rest of the form (name, address, method of payment, etc.) and print it. That finished form, the QSL cards, and the SASE (addressed to ARRL in Newington, CT) are brought to the checker. Here is a QSL CARD LINK to the new information.
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Pat Murphy N7UVH from Post Falls ID wins the SDXA-sponsored plaque for the highest single operator digital score. He also set the record for the highest low-powered digital score in the history of the contest. Congratulations Pat!
Early 2018
Bouvet Island is the second most wanted entity from information on Club Log.
You can prepare for them! There is enough time to consider more, better, and higher antennas. How about some more power? A new Transceiver?
◾Most Wanted Rank: 2
◾CQ zone: 38
◾Continent: AF
◾Primary prefix: 3Y/B
Below info courtesy of bouvetdx.com site
Bouvet lies at 54 degrees, 25 minutes South and 3 degrees, 22 minutes East. It’s the product of a volcanic eruption that last occurred in 4,000 B.C. Bouvet is 97% ice covered, and with surrounding rocks and small islands, has an area of 19 square miles, with 18.4 miles of coastline. Its location, ice, rock cliffs, high seas, harsh climate and surrounding pack ice and icebergs isolate it from human presence. Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier first saw the island in 1739. The island was not seen again until 1808. There was a disputed landing by Benjamin Morrell. But, the first documented landing was by the Norvegia expedition in 1927, which named the island Bouvetoya, and claimed it for Norway.
Sometime between 1955 and 1958, a landslide occurred, creating a rock-strewn, ice-free area on the northwest coast. The area was named Nyroysa, and subsequently became a Norwegian scientific and research site, which was decimated by an earthquake in 2006. A new research facility was erected in 2014.
Bouvet became a Nature Reserve in 1971. Several weather stations have been placed on the island, and a number of Norwegian expeditions have visited the island in the last 50 years. The island has hosted several previous DXpeditions, including:
•LH4C by W4BPD in 1962 – No documented landing.
•3Y3CC and 3Y1VC by LA3CC and LA1VC in 1977.
•3Y5DQ and 3Y1VC 1978-79 by LA5DQ and LA1VC.
•3Y5X by LA2GV, LA1EE, JF1IST, F2CW, and HB9AHL in 1989.
•3Y2GV by LA2GV in 1997.
•3YØC by N4BQW in 2000.
•3YØE by ZS6GCM in 2008.
Like most DXpeditions, they are heavily funded by our donations. This may be the most expensive DXpedition ever! Here is a 3Y0Z LINK to their website and further donation information.
40 CONTINUOUS YEARS PIN AWARD PIN
Congratulations Chuck!
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January —– Video of the 2005 Kerguelen FT5XO DXpedition
February —– Steve W7VI gave a presentation on the 30 meter band.
March —–Celebration of the SDXA’s 15th birthday (for March 16); DVD on vintage WWII radio assembly at a Hallicrafter plant; Dick W7BHP showed some of his WWII radios.
April —– Vice-President Steve W7VI gave a discussion called: How to begin the art of DXing and contesting. It was about how the set up and start an operational DX station and work it into a small contest station, in particular, he discussed the SOTA activity which allows new hams (or experienced) to work mainly QRP from mountains, using small antennas and battery power.
May —– Bob Zavrel W7SX gave a presentation on antenna apertures. Further information on the topic and other antenna theory topics can be found in his ARRL published book entitled “Antenna Physics: An Introduction.”
June —– Bob Zavrel W7SX gave part 2 of his presentation on antennas.
July —– Steve W7VI presented his SOTA Operation with Mike K6MW. SOTA is the Summits On The Air program.
August —– Annual Summer Picnic at Shadle Park; 3rd SDXA-sponsored PNW DX Convention at the Hotel RL.
September —– Randy Cruz W7TJ presented a state-of-the-club session with constructive ideas on improving the organization.
October —– A skype presentation from Tim Duffy K3LR on DX’ing on a Budget. Thank’s Tim for staying up so late in PA.
November —– A DVD on the VK0IR DXpedition.
December —– The Annual Awards Banquet at the Airway Heights Longhorn Barbecue; a live presentation by Lance W7GJ from Montana on his many 6 meter EME DXpeditions.
