{"id":10876,"date":"2018-10-13T07:33:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T15:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=10876"},"modified":"2018-10-13T07:33:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T15:33:57","slug":"2018-2019-pnw-contest-season-has-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=10876","title":{"rendered":"2018-2019 PNW CONTEST SEASON HAS STARTED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\nTHE CONTEST BETWEEN THE LEADING DX\/CONTESTING PNW CLUBS HAS STARTED.  THE PRIZE IS THIS TROPHY FOR THE CLUB&#8217;S HIGHEST SCORE IN THE 2018-2019 TEN-CONTEST EVENT.  LAST SEASON, IT WENT TO THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY DX CLUB IN PORTLAND.<\/p>\n<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 in the  2016-2017 season, it did not do much traveling.  (Picture by Mike W7VO, WVDXC President)<\/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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cq-amateur-radio.com\/cq_contests\/cq_ww_rtty_dx_contest\/cq_ww_rtty_dx_contest_rules\/2018_cq_ww_rtty_dx_contest_rules.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">CQ ww dx rtty<\/span><\/a> &#8211; Sept 29-30 <strong>(finished)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cq-amateur-radio.com\/cq_contests\/cq_ww_dx_contest\/cq_ww_dx_contest_rules\/2018_08_cq_ww_dx_contest_rules.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">CQ ww dx ssb<\/span><\/a> &#8211; Oct 27-28 <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cq-amateur-radio.com\/cq_contests\/cq_ww_dx_contest\/cq_ww_dx_contest_rules\/2018_08_cq_ww_dx_contest_rules.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">CQ ww dx cw<\/span><\/a> &#8211;  Nov 24-25 <\/li>\n<li>ARRL rtty roundup &#8211; Jan 5-6<\/li>\n<li>CQ wpx rtty in Feb <\/li>\n<li>ARRL DX CW &#8211; Feb 16-17<\/li>\n<li>ARRL DX SSB &#8211; March 2-3<\/li>\n<li>CQ WPX SSB in March <\/li>\n<li>CQ WPX CW in May<\/li>\n<li>IARU &#8211; July 13-14<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>the rules for some of the above contests are not available on their respective websites yet.<\/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-10876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876","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=10876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10877,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876\/revisions\/10877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}