Spokane DX Association

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

The 2012-2013 season is over; the trophy was presented to the Orca DX & Contest Club with the highest total at the SDXA DX convention on Aug 3. Here are the final season scores:

1. Orca DXCC 98,125,297
2. WWDXC 84,767,470
3. WVDXC 71,893,656
4. SDXA 26,659,112
5. BCDXC 25,518,121
Totals of all clubs: 306,963,656

Note that this is the first contest year that the SDXA did not finish last.

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DAN N5AR AT BASE OF HIS TOWER

WIND DAMAGE EVIDENT IN BENT BOOM

REPAIR DONE; CONVERTED TO 5-ELEMENT; BACK ON THE AIR

SEE OCTOBER MINUTES FOR INFORMATION PERTAINING TO ARTICLE IV – USE OF PERSONAL DEVICES. REVISED CONSTITUTION IS FOUND AT THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE HOME PAGE UNDER THE ASSOCIATION.

Chris KL9A

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Here are photos of the winners.

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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.