Welcome to the Spokane DX Association Serving Eastern Washington and North Idaho
Upcoming SDXA Programs & Activities
August 17th SDXA Summer Picnic at WA7AQH
September 5th on Zoom
Next Level Contesting; Making the Move to SO2R – K5ZD
Randy Thompson, K5ZD has been licensed and active in contesting since 1973 at age 13. He is an accomplished operator, having multiple single-operator wins in the ARRL Sweepstakes, CQ World Wide DX Contest, and the CQ WPX Contest, among others. Randy is a past editor of the “National Contest Journal” and a co-founder of the eHam.net website. He was the Director of the CQ WPX Contest 2008-2013, the Director of the CQ World Wide DX Contest 2013-2016, and is a member of the CQ Magazine Contest Hall of Fame. He has competed in six World Radiosport Team Championships and was a co-chair of the organizing committee for WRTC2014 in Boston. When not in front of a radio, Randy works in technical sales of a global system integrator.
October 3rd at Harvester Restaurant
Annual Award Dinner
Harvester Restaurant
410 W. 1st
Spangle, WA 99031
Schedule:
6:00 PM Social hour (order drinks from the bar)
7:00 PM Dinner served.
7:45 PM Awards program
November 7 (Hybrid Meeting at Shadle Park Library and zoom)
Clipperton DXpedition with Rob Fanfant N7QT
Rob will be sharing about the early 2024 DXpedition to Clipperton Island TX5S. The SDXA was a sponsor of this DXpedition. The NCDXF awarded this DXpedition their DXcellence of the year award.
December 5th on Zoom
Ham Radio DXing with Lucas Ford W6AER
Bob K7TM’s UPCOMING DX
July 02 -15 | St Pierre & Miquelon | FP/KV1J |
July 04 -18 | Reunion | TO7PX |
July 08 – 20 | Svalbard | JW/WE9G |
July 10 – 25 | American Samoa | K8R |
July 11 – 24 | Wake I | NL7TT/KH9 |
July 13 – 22 | Honduras | K6VHF/HR9 |
July 15 – 19 | American Samoa | WE9G/KH8 |
July 20 – Aug 01 | Lord Howe I | VK2/W7BRS |
July 23 – Aug 01 | Malta | 9H/LA7FTA |
July 24 – Aug 20 | Nicaragua | YN2RP |
July 27 – 31 | South Cook Is | E51KEE – E51CZZ |
Aug 01 – 04 | Scotland | MM0UKI |
Aug 01 – 06 | South Cook Is | E51KEE – E51CZZ |
Aug 03 – 09 | Botswana | A25UX |
Aug 05 – 17 | Palmyra Jarvis Is | N5J |
Aug 10 – 17 | St Lucia | J6/N4XTT |
Aug 10 – 22 | St Pierre & Miquelon | TO8FP |
Aug 15 – Sept 15 | French Polynesia | FO/F1SMB |
Aug 17 – 30 | Timor Leste | 4W/VK2MET |
Aug 23 – Sept 30 | Tristan da Cunha | ZD9GJ |
Aug 26 – Sept 05 | St Paul I | CY9C |
Get All the Announced DX Operations from
https://ng3k.com/Misc/adxo.html
SDXA DX NETS
DXpedition SOLICITATIONS
ALL DXpedition funding requests are to be to the SDXA President. Since funding is limited, in this manner, our SDXA Officers can give your request the consideration it deserves.
SOLAR ACTIVITY AND PROPAGATION SECTION
For additional info, try this SOLAR LINK for everything you ever wanted to know about the current Sun at the SolarHam site by VE3EN
Link to SPACEWEATHER.COM, a quick source for the daily activity on the sun
Link to NOAA SPACEWEATHER
What is this?
The Miscellaneous Area
SDXA CALENDAR
2024
- every wednesday HF Net on 3840 kHz at 08:00 AM local
- every sunday 6 Meter Net on 50.140 kHz at 08:00 PM local
- 17 August ’24 SDXA Annual Picnic
- 05 September ‘24 SDXA Program & meeting on Zoom 7:00 PM local
- 03 October ‘24 SDXA annual Awards Banquet tbd
- 07 November ‘24 SDXA Program & meeting Hybrid @ _tbd_ and on zoom 7:00 PM local
- 05 December ‘24 SDXA Program & meeting on Zoom 7:00 PM local
- contests of interest:
a) Pacific NW Challenge Trophy contests:
+ CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY #1 0000Z, Sep 23 to 2400Z, Sep 24
+ CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB #2 0000Z, Oct 28 to 2359Z, Oct 29
+ CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW #3 0000Z, Nov 25 to 2400Z, Nov 26
+ ARRL RTTY Roundup #4 1800Z, Jan 6 to 2400Z, Jan 7
+ CQ WW RTTY WPX Contest #5 0000Z, Feb 10 to 2400Z, Feb 11
+ ARRL Inter. DX Contest, CW #6 0000Z, Feb 17 to 2400Z, Feb 18
+ ARRL Inter. DX Contest, SSB #7 0000Z, Mar 2 to 2400Z, Mar 3
+ CQ WW WPX Contest, SSB #8 0000Z, Mar 30 to 2400Z, Mar 31
+ CQ WW WPX Contest, CW #9 0000Z, May 25 to 2400Z, May 26
+ IARU HF World Championship #10 1200Z, Jul 13 to 1200Z, Jul 14 - b) other contests for internal SDXA incentives:
+ ARRL Inter. Digital Contest 1800Z, Jun 1 to 2400Z, Jun 2
+ World Wide Digi DX Contest 1200Z, Aug 24 to 1200Z, Aug 25 - c) other contests for internal SDXA interest
+ Idaho QSO Party 1900Z, Mar 9 to 1900Z, Mar 10
+ 7th Call Area QSO Party 1300Z, May 4 to 0700Z, May 5
+ Washington State Salmon Run 1600Z, Sep 16 to 0700Z, Sep 17 and
1600Z-2400Z, Sep 17
JOIN THE SDXA
Regular dues – $20 per person.
Second family member – $10.
Under 19 years of age are free.
DUES LINK.
We accept PayPal too.
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NW HAM RADIO CONVENTION & SWAP MEETS
Lynn N7CFO keeps the best listing.
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CLUB CARD CHECKERS
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IA ETHICS OPER PROCEDURES
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OUTSIDE HELP IN ANTENNAS & TOWERS
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DX NEWS LINKS
1. DX WORLD.NET
2. ANNOUNCED DX OPERATIONS
3. DX SUMMIT
4. I2MQP DX NEWS
5. DXER.ORG (Lone Star DX)
6. DXWATCH.COM
7. DAILY DX
8. DXMAPS
9. DX UNIVERSITY
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CONTESTING LINKS
There are a lot of links to contesting activities in the DX/Contesting drop down menu above the 24-hour clock on the right of this page. But here are a couple of the best.
1. WA7BNM
2. CONTESTING.COM
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INTERNET ENTITY PRONOUNCER
How do you pronounce a DX entity’s name? Here is a link to the pronouncing. There is also a audio link to a human voice saying the entity’s name correctly. This authority is the 3rd edition Merriam Webster Geographical Dictionary. Covering only legitimate countries, it does not cover non-country ARRL entities.
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HAM RADIO EQUIPMENT REVIEWS
eHAM.net
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Recent News
SDXA Members with YouTube Channels
In addition to the SDXA YouTube channel, two of our members also have YouTube Channels you will want to check out. Toivo Mykkanen W8TJM has a very interesting channel that includes several videos on Moxen antennas. He also wrote a couple of articles for QST on these. His channel is: https://www.youtube.com/@W8TJM Randy Foltz K7TQ […]
Art Charette SK
I am sorry to report that apparently Art K6XT became a SK last weekend. Just one month after being diagnosed with esophagus cancer Art passed away. Art’s accomplishments included: 9 Band DXCC 160-10M >300 80 thru 10 except 281 on 12M and at 247 on 160. DXCC 363/338 lacking only P5. 5BWAZ and 5BDXCC, CWDXCC […]
SK (Chuck KI7DG) Tower/antennas taken down
11 Members of the Spokane DX Association (2 from Ephrata, 2 from Moses Lake, 1 from Davenport, 1 from Okanagon, and 5 from Spokane) made their way to Okanogon yesterday to take down a tower with antennas, plus three other masts with antennas for the widow of a SK (Chuck KI7DG). In spite of the […]
160 meter WAS
Congratulations to Bob Lee N7AU for getting the WAS Award for 160 meters
ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST 80 meter Dual Winners
More than a year ago Mike/K7STO and Brian/W7BJN were talking about doing the 2023 and decided to do 80 SSB….in different categories for the simple reason they don’t like butting heads with good friends in Contests. So they ended up winning 2 different categories on High Power Single Op SSB. The heavy lifting on Brian’s […]