{"id":12674,"date":"2019-09-08T20:37:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T04:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=12674"},"modified":"2019-09-08T20:37:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T04:37:36","slug":"2019-pacific-nw-dx-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=12674","title":{"rendered":"2019 Pacific NW DX Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 Pacific NW DX Convention was hosted by the Western Washington DX Club in Everett, WA. The attendance was the highest ever. A number of members of the SDXA participated.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Joe Taylor (K1JT) whose work in Astrophysics led to a Nobel Prize for his study of gravitational radiation of binary pulsars. He was a professor at Princeton and is the creator of the incredible popular WSJT-X and FT8\/FT4.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Joe-Taylor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12589 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Joe-Taylor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr Tamitha Skov (WX6SWW) is a research scientist at the Aerospace Corporation in Southern California. Her specialty is Geophysics and Space Plasma Physics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Tamitha-Skov.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12590 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Tamitha-Skov-300x178.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Tamitha-Skov-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Tamitha-Skov.png 567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gary (AD7XG) and Del (WA7AQH)<br \/>\nDel won one of the Grand Prizes, a SteppIR Urban Beam.<br \/>\n(Photo by Bob Hallock)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Gary-Del-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12593 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Gary-Del-cropped-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Gary-Del-cropped-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Gary-Del-cropped-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Gary-Del-cropped.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John (K7KB)<br \/>\n(Photo by Bob Hallock)<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/John.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12591\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/John-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/John-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/John-768x996.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/John-790x1024.jpg 790w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/John.jpg 1999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 Pacific NW DX Convention was hosted by the Western Washington DX Club in Everett, WA. The attendance was the highest ever. A number of members of the SDXA participated. Dr Joe Taylor (K1JT) whose work in Astrophysics led to a Nobel Prize for his study of gravitational radiation of binary pulsars. He was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12674","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12675,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12674\/revisions\/12675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}