{"id":10637,"date":"2018-08-26T17:13:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T01:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=10637"},"modified":"2018-08-26T17:14:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T01:14:08","slug":"the-2018-pnw-dx-convention-in-vancouver-bc-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=10637","title":{"rendered":"THE 2018 PNW DX CONVENTION TROPHY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC_404313381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC_404313381-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC_404313381-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC_404313381.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAndy KE7AUB holds the newly won Traveling Trophy.  Actually since the WVDXC also won it last year, it did not do much traveling.  (Picture by Mike W7VO, WVDXC President)<\/p>\n<p><center><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><br \/>\nTHE TROPHY FOR THE CLUB&#8217;S HIGHEST SCORE IN THE 2017-2018 TEN-CONTEST EVENT WENT TO THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY DX CLUB IN PORTLAND.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><\/p>\n<p>The ten-contesting event is between the leading Northwest DX and contesting clubs:<\/p>\n<p>Spokane DX Association (SDXA)<br \/>\nWestern Washington DX Club (WWDXC) &#8211; Seattle<br \/>\nWillamette Valley DX Club (WVDXC) &#8211; Portland<br \/>\nOrca DX and Contesting Club &#8211; Vancouver, BC, Canada<br \/>\nIdaho DX Association (IDXA) &#8211; Lewiston, ID.<br \/>\nBritish Columbia DX Club &#8211; Vancouver, BC, Canada<\/p>\n<p>Each season, the accumulated contest points made by members are tallied to see which club makes the most points from its members over the ten contests.  The contest season starts in September and ends in July.  <\/p>\n<p>The ten contests are (in order):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CQ ww dx rtty in Sept <\/li>\n<li>CQ ww dx ssb in Oct <\/li>\n<li>CQ ww dx cw in Nov <\/li>\n<li>ARRL rtty roundup in Jan <\/li>\n<li>CQ wpx rtty in Feb <\/li>\n<li>ARRL DX CW in Feb <\/li>\n<li>ARRL DX SSB in March<\/li>\n<li>CQ WPX SSB in March <\/li>\n<li>CQ WPX CW in May<\/li>\n<li>IARU in July<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here a link to how the SDXA members did:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2017-2018-final-sdxa-PNW-challenge-cup-totals.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\"><strong>SDXA MEMBERS LINK<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It looks like Mark K7HPT will get a certificate award at the December Awards Banquet for entering all ten contests during the year.  And Mel N7GCO will receive one for his highest total score among the SDXA members.<\/p>\n<p>How did SDXA do among the other clubs?<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/PNW-DX-17-18-Cup-Scores-0_20_0-2-1-4.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\"><strong>US VS. THEM LINK<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Disregard the year span heading on the US vs. Them LINK table.  This table is for the most current season: 2017-2018.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}