{"id":10856,"date":"2018-10-10T14:51:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T22:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=10856"},"modified":"2018-10-11T16:59:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T00:59:50","slug":"2018-salmon-run-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=10856","title":{"rendered":"2018 SALMON RUN RESULTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The winner (again) for the SDXA-sponsored plaque is Gary Swartout K7GS<\/strong>. Gary, are you trying to surpass W7WMO with his seven plaques? Last year, Gary won with 60,182 points from 384 QSOs and 58 multipliers. This year he had 97,527 points from 434 QSOs and 83 multipliers. Congratulations again.<\/p>\n

Here is a picture of Gary holding his 2017 winners plaque.<\/p>\n

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The criteria for winning is:
\noperate in the EWA Section of the ARRL (there are 71 separate Sections in the system). The EWA section is colored blue on this map:<\/p>\n

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run low power
\nbe a single operator
\nenter the Mixed Mode where you work at least two of the three possible modes<\/p>\n

The mobile crew of Jay WA0WWW (SDXA Secretary) and Randy K7TQ (former SDXA VP and twice DX Convention Chairperson)<\/strong> operated K7TQ\/M and got 82,505 points from 497 QSOs and 82 multipliers – points contributed to the Idaho DX Association (IDXA). That made them the winner in that Mobile CW category and beat the effort from the Salmon Run Chairman Mike N7WA who made 53,907 points from 354 QSOs and 51 multipliers.<\/p>\n

Others who participated were President Gary AD7XG<\/strong> from Lincoln County who made 11,672 points from 102 QSOs and 46 multipliers in the Single Operator, All band, Low Power, Mixed mode.<\/p>\n

SDXA member Michael K7STO<\/strong> teamed up with non-member Woody N7HCJ<\/strong> to operate a Multi-operator, single transmitter station under Woody’s call from Garfield County. They got 13,916 points from 129 QSOs and 52 multipliers in the Expeditionary category.<\/p>\n

Mel N7GCO <\/strong>in Spokane County made 17,010 points from 127 QSOs and 65 multipliers in the Single Operator, ALL band, high power, phone section.<\/p>\n

Scott N7SJM<\/strong> in Okanogan County made 28,880 points from 215 QSOs and 66 Multipliers in the Single Operator, ALL band, high power, phone section.<\/p>\n

Single Operator County winners who are SDXA members:<\/p>\n

Gary K7GS – Spokane County
\nGary AD7XG – Lincoln County
\nN7SJM Scott – Okanogan County<\/p>\n

In the club competition, SDXA took 4th place with a total of 169,005 points.<\/p>\n

Here is a WWDXC LINK<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to the official Salmon run site. <\/p>\n

Here is the list of all winners since we started the plaque in 2003, a year after the club formed.<\/p>\n

2003 GENE BYE W7WMO, EPHRATA (84,416 points)
\n2004 GENE BYE W7WMO, EPHRATA (131,080 points)
\n2005 GARY ELLIOTT K7OX, SPOKANE (SDXA MEMBER) (170,154 points)
\n2006 GARY ELLIOTT K7OX, SPOKANE (SDXA MEMBER) (172,800 points)
\n2007 GENE BYE W7WMO, EPHRATA (104,140 points)
\n2008 WILSE MORGAN WX7P, RICE (SDXA MEMBER) (124,992 points)
\n2009 GARY ELLIOTT K7OX, SPOKANE (SDXA MEMBER) (261,236 points)
\n2010 GENE BYE W7WMO, EPHRATA (172,264 points)
\n2011 RICK OLSEN N6NR, TIETON (245,096 points)
\n2012 RICK WERNER K7UK, WALLA WALLA (77,595 points)
\n2013 GENE BYE W7WMO, EPHRATA (132,653 points)
\n2014 LAMAR RAY WA7LT, SPOKANE (SDXA MEMBER) (160,630 points)
\n2015 GENE BYE W7WMO, EPHRATA (52,976 points)
\n2016 GENE BYE W7WMO, EPHRATA (97,430 points)
\n2017 GARY SWARTOUT K7GS, SPOKANE (60,182 points)
\n2018 GARY SWARTOUT K7GS, SPOKANE (97,527 points) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The winner (again) for the SDXA-sponsored plaque is Gary Swartout K7GS. Gary, are you trying to surpass W7WMO with his seven plaques? Last year, Gary won with 60,182 points from 384 QSOs and 58 multipliers. This year he had 97,527 points from 434 QSOs and 83 multipliers. Congratulations again. Here is a picture of Gary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10856","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=10856"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10873,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10856\/revisions\/10873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}