Spokane DX Association

This setup belongs to Del WA7AQH. The monitor is a 48″ LG 4K UHD TV at 3840×2160 resolution. Was $329 at Costco. This is the same screen space as four 24″ monitors running 1080P resolution.

Windows open left side from the top:
N3JFP’s AC Log
WSJT-X
WSJT-X bandscope

Windows open on the right:
XR12 Mixer (background)
Elecraft W-2 power/swr meter
JT-Alert
PSK Reporter in a browser window

Here is the typical preamble that is used at the beginning of the net:

QST. QST, QST … this is (Your Call)
calling the Spokane DX Association Amateur Radio DX Net that meets every
third Wednesday at 1900 hours local on 145.250 MHz, the N7BFS repeater. The
purpose of this net is to share DX information among SDXA Members.
Stations with any emergency traffic may break in at any time; visiting
stations are invited to check in after the call for SDXA Members.

Ask everyone to check in by Areas. Share DX Information with SDXA Members. Ask for late check-ins and Visiting Stations. Close net at whatever local time is and Thank Doug Cole (N7BFS) for the
permission to use the 145.25 repeater.

Send the list of the names and calls of all check-ins to the SDXA Webmaster, for publishing on the site.

Antenna Modeling Orientation — Another great presentation by our local best selling ham author and ARRL Technical Advisor W7SX Bob Zavrel. It was an introduction to “Antenna Modeling”. He focused on EZNEC, which is by far the preferred software program tool for amateurs.

There will be a free follow-up workshop on EZNEC when the weather is better and more safe. We will let you now ahead of time. This now gives you more time to obtain your EZNEC software.

For those that want to use EZNEC, you can purchase it and install on your computer and bring to the workshop. Here is a link to the NW site that sells it:

Bob is the author of the ARRL published book entitled “An Introduction to Antenna Physics“, available from the ARRL or Amazon.com.