{"id":13124,"date":"2020-01-18T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T08:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=13124"},"modified":"2020-01-18T23:46:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T07:46:54","slug":"the-flounder-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=13124","title":{"rendered":"The Flounder Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/FlounderCup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12688 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/FlounderCup-125x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/FlounderCup-125x300.jpg 125w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/FlounderCup-427x1024.jpg 427w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/FlounderCup.jpg 584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/a>As explained in the September meeting, the IDXA and SDXA has a difficult time competing with our DX brothers of Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland. We have always just &#8220;floundered&#8221; about trying to compete with those big guns but come home empty handed when it comes time for the PNW Challenge Cup presentation. So in the spirit of a friendly and fun competion, after having dinner with Rob Fanfant, and officers of IDXA\/SDXA, The Flounder Cup was created by Randy Foltz &#8211; K7TQ as a local trophy that we can compete for.<\/p>\n<p>The first presentation of the Flounder Cup was at the September 5th meeting of the SDXA with our club winning the trophy for this year. The IDXA won the &#8220;Per Participant&#8221; category and certificate.<\/p>\n<p>Randy (K7TQ) created a nice .pdf file (Acrobat) about the Flounder Cup and the link is below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/FlounderCup.pdf\">Flounder Cup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So lets see who wins the award for next year!<\/p>\n<p>These reports are provided by Randy (K7TQ) from the IDXA after each contest.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the results after the fourth contest this year. <a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FlounderCupJan-January-2020.pdf\">FlounderCupJan January 2020<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/separator-line.png\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-small wp-image-12666 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/separator-line-300x83.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/separator-line-300x83.png 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/separator-line.png 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As explained in the September meeting, the IDXA and SDXA has a difficult time competing with our DX brothers of Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland. We have always just &#8220;floundered&#8221; about trying to compete with those big guns but come home empty handed when it comes time for the PNW Challenge Cup presentation. So in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13124","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=13124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13286,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13124\/revisions\/13286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}