{"id":11370,"date":"2019-01-04T14:02:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T22:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=11370"},"modified":"2019-01-04T14:02:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T22:02:45","slug":"the-2018-sdxa-annual-awards-banquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=11370","title":{"rendered":"THE 2018 SDXA ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><held on December 6, 2018, many members and their spouses enjoyed the 3-meat BBQ special at the Airway Heights Longhorn BBQ. Former ARRL NW Director and VP Jim Fenstermaker K9JF gave a lecture on the restarting of ham radio in Kosovo. Jim was instrumental in helping restart their program after an absence of many years after the country's independence in 2008.\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4185.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11286\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4185-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4185-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4185-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4185-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nSpeaker Jim Fenstermaker K9JF talks about the reemergence of Kosovo as a ham radio nation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4199.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11285\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4199-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4199-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4199-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4199-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMark Van Winkle K7HPT shows off his award certificate for working all ten contests in the 2017-2018 PNW Challenge Cup. He was the only member to do this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4163.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11291\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4163-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4163-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4163-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4163-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLooks like the start to eating. The man with clasped hands in the background is Spokane&#8217;s own ham radio author Bob Zavrel W7SX. His book entitled <strong><em>Antenna Physics: An Introduction<\/em> <\/strong>is available at both the ARRL and Amazon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4175.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11293\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4175-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4175-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4175-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4175-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPlate are clean; looks like an end to the eating period.<\/p>\n<p>Mel Ming N7GCO received a certificate for the highest total score in the PNW Challenge Cup among SDXA members.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Swartout K7GS received a plaque from the SDXA for the highest score in the low power, single operator, EWA Section, Mixed mode category.<br \/>\n<\/held><\/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-11370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370","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=11370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11371,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370\/revisions\/11371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}