Welcome to the Spokane DX Association  

Serving Eastern Washington and North Idaho

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

 

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


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Link to SPACEWEATHER.COM, a quick source for the daily activity on the sun
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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 […]

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